Hey guys it's Tyen!
So recently I've been trying to take my fitness out of the gym,
I've been going for hikes and trying different sports
so today I'm gonna be trying something completely different
and doing some wrestling!
Now I've actually watched a couple of wrestling matches in the past
and I've always been amazed at the stunts
and how dangerous and awesome it looks.
I think it's just the perfect blend of performance and fitness.
So I'm here at Grapple Max which is a pro wrestling fitness school.
And what they do is that they conduct classes that comprise of wrestling techniques.
I'm here with my instructor Greg,
so for wrestling I've always seen it as a performance,
so how did you come up with the idea of a wrestling fitness school?
Before we came along no one really knew
how to get into wrestling as a sport or as a confidence building activity,
and so we thought you know let's come together and let's build a school
where we can bring people in to make it very easy to get into this sport,
whether it's for fitness or for confidence or to just meet new people,
we thought there was a demand there which is why we began this company.
So when i'm watching wrestling i'm thinking these stunts look so difficult to perform
but how physically demanding is wrestling?
So if you want to just come in here and do some very basic wrestling right,
then that's very easy to get into.
But if you're looking to say perform on our shows and you know perform around the region,
then of course it's a whole different level of physicality you have to prepare for as well.
Could you please share with me what your classes are typically like?
Right now we run 3 sessions a week and every class is about an hour 15 minutes long,
and so it's usually a combination of you know gymnastics, break falls, wrestling technique,
a lot of cardio, it's a lot of running.
So is this what i'll be going through today, like a lot of cardio?
Oh yeah for sure.
I'm personally not a fan of cardio but you know what i'm game!
Oh yeah do people wrestle their bikinis, is that thing?
It's a thing.
It's a thing right to wrestle in bikinis.
If I have a wrestling persona, I will be in a bikini just for the views.
My name will be "Hot Mess".
It'll be like Tyen "Hot Mess" Rasif.
Yeah, just for the views.
Just for the views.
so now we're all stretched out right, we're gonna start with the actual wrestling training.
So we're going to do a bump.
So a bump basically is when you break fall.
So if you get hit by clothesline or a body slam,
you got to take a bump.
We'll start you with the most basic safest step of all.
Keep it relaxed, up above your head and bring it flat down.
Like this?
Yup bring it down.
There we go!
We're going to add the timing to how you're going to do the fall.
So you want to go into a half squat, hands in front, tuck your chin,
good!
So now part three.
We're gonna start with one foot on the ground,
and you're gonna do a full on bump.
Squat a little bit, tuck your chin and fall back.
Like that ah?
Okay ready for this?
Wait but I don't want to hit you.
You won't hit me right....
Okay wait wait wait so I'm falling then fall back.
So as late as you can, alright.
Ready and go.
There we go!
Where? Where's the ouch?
No I'm just....
I'm just acting.
Was it believable?
It's alright yeah.
It's okay right?
Okay I think you're ready for the full one.
I think so too.
So we're gonna do a full bump now okay.
So the key thing about this is you want your butt to land where your feet are,
you want your feet to shoot forward,
your shoulders to go back,
your butt lands right here.
And go!
There we go!
He raised his arm!
I did alright, it's all psychological.
So I never thought that falling would require so much technique,
and the crux of it is just making sure that you're safe when you fall,
there's a lot of coordination that's involved
so kind of just makes this much more difficult than it looks.
Last one, pose off, right into camera,
and you're good to go!
So now you're gonna learn how to run the ropes.
The whole idea is you want to be able to hit the ropes safely
so you don't injure yourself on the ropes.
First thing is just to learn what the end position is.
My fear is always like I'm going to like fall through the ropes,
is it possible to fall through the ropes?
It is it definitely yes right, it has happened before in wrestling
so you want to make sure you have all these safety in place to make sure you don't fall out.
Okay we're going to move on.
Now you're going to learn how to turn and hit the ropes.
So the ending is the same as just now,
key thing is right foot hits the ground,
you want to pop this off the ground and turn there.
Right pop and turn!
There we go!
Alright very graceful!
Very graceful.
So now you're going to add the step off the ropes.
Left right turn, right foot step.
There we go.
Guys I'm not even running yet and this is like enough cardio okay.
Now you know how to turn, you know how to hit the ropes, you know how to step up right,
put that all into a full run.
Right hit the rope.
Okay?
That's easy right?
You got that right?
No I was so scared, my heart was bleeding so fast like oh my god he's gonna fly out of the ring!
Oh no!
Okay so now it's your turn!
Alright so from here right, one two turn, right foot and start running.
Turn!
Yup there we go great!
Right foot first, right foot first.
Turn!
Right foot.
Okay stop stop stop stop stop okay.
Wrestling is hard.
It's damn hard! We know.
Guys it's so hard!!
That's why you train.
So you know it might seem easy when I saw it on tv,
when everyone was like rebounding off the ropes.
it's really not easy guys.
I tried like crossfit before and it's a lot of strength and yes coordination, a lot endurance,
but this is compounded with a layer of more agility, a lot of coordination, speed,
just very holistic as a sport and as an overall training style.
And then not to mention you gotta you know still stay in character throughout the whole thing,
like I mean if I was not trained I'll completely break character
I'll be like okay I'm very tired, I want to sit down.
Find your right foot, turn!
And I can just imagine you know with the speed and everything
and with the audience cheering around,
the high is quite something yeah.
Okay so are we going to now learn some wrestling techniques?
Yes.
So I'm going to bring in my co-founder Dennis,
so we're going to show you some wrestling techniques
and put it all together with what you learned in the previous parts of this class as well.
So we're going to start with basic things like a lock up and then a wrist lock,
how you control someone's wrist.
So almost every wrestling match starts with a lock up.
So it has to look nice and tight, convincing that you're going to be starting a fight.
So 3 things are moving, left foot goes forward,
left hand forward, boom,
and bring it back.
Okay great awesome.
I'm going to show you how to do a wrist lock.
So left hand is going to go over, grab the wrist,
turn back,
keep it on your shoulder, fingers together, thumbs below, push up.
Now bring your legs to be square, now you can take leverage.
Like that?
There we go.
So make the move look smooth and then flourish for the camera.
Okay got it.
So we'll teach you how to do counters, very simple wrist lock counters.
Conceptually very simple.
You want to just undo the twist,
face your opponent,
grab control the wrist turn into your own wrist lock.
And pose off for the camera.
There we go.
Elbows tuck it in okay but that pose is great.
Well it's really fun I think like once you get through the coordination and like once you get the choreography,
it becomes very easy and it feels more natural to you.
So from here all you got to do is keep it relaxed.
So he's going to pull you into a head lock.
This is pretty advanced and what are you going to do right is basically go into a half squat position.
Bring it forward for a half squat,
half squat, there we go.
That's all you gotta do.
Not the face.
That's it.
Next part is you want to get him off your headlock.
That's why we're going to push him to the ropes.
Once you hit him off the ropes,
throw him off right, you want to step up and close that distance.
He's going to add a waist lock to this.
So all you got to do for this right is defence, put your hands here,
fingers inside, you want to try and break the hole.
So step here, lean back slightly.
So normally there are counters for this but again you haven't got the counters yet.
You can't break the hole because it's too tight
so what do you do right, use leverage.
Step, grab your heel, pull.
Control the heels first okay.
hands let go, bend down, grab the heel
Give it a pull
pull it up.
Nice, good!
Now step over, left leg over.
Yup step back over and face...
control that right leg.
That's good. Like this?
Yeah that's it.
Okay so we're going to take it from the top, put everything together,
right until the very last part before the half grab submission.
Wait I forgot.
Start again start again start again.
Reset reset!
Sell sell sell!
Die.
I hug you right?
No he's gonna pull you in.
Right now you're rushing right.
To the audience, to the audience.
Step up step up step up!
Okay you're in trouble!
Don't take my money!
Great, turn, step over.
And stop. Good, awesome!
Take your money, where's that coming from?
It's now a full self defence class.
So I think you've graduated to the closing move,
alright, which is a half grab.
So what you want to do from here right is you want to squat, deep as you have to.
Keep this left foot into your armpit,
so under your arm, turn, step over and control.
Readjust, grip your own wrist and chest up.
Great there we go!
Good stuff, that's the idea.
Cool!
Put it all together.
This is it, you're almost there!
Okay let's get this together!
I need to clean up my hot mess
because I'm a hot mess right now, true to my name.
Come on Tyen.
Nice, grab the wrist, grab the other wrist. Yes turn back.
Put it on your shoulder.
Hold it there, hold it there!
Pain right, pain right?
You want to take my money again is it?
I'm not taking your money, I want to wrestle.
No!!
Half squat half squat, sell first.
Get in position, get in position.
Step up step up step up!
Take the waist lock.
Okay sell, sell! You're in trouble.
Okay and then final solution,
final solution.
Control your footing first, turn first.
Under the armpit.
Control the foot, control the foot.
Yah surrender, give me my money!
Cheat on me again, how dare you?!
Left hand control the knee,
Yeah that's right, steal my money again, surrender!
Surrender!
He tapped out, he tapped out!
You can let go now.
Tiring right?
Super tiring guys!
When you're in the gym, you know you're just focused on your routine doing your reps and your sets
but over here, there's so much to think about.
You know the coordination, the choreography, the safety, the selling
and as well like trying to make sure that your opponent is safe and that you're safe,
which makes this a very holistic form of training.
Alright I've come to the end of my very first wrestling class
and I've gotta say that I'm pretty surprised at how tired I feel right now.
I guess this is also because it was a crash course it's all condensed into one session for me
so I think that you know given the circumstances
I'm happy and feel really accomplished that I was able to learn the full wrestling sequence and look passable.
I would totally recommend this to anyone who likes the idea of martial arts
and wrestling, who just want to you know do a workout and cardio but not feel like they're in a gym.
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