Glad people are finally starting to breakdown scramble techniques and moves instead of just thinking it’s the “Gumby” or “goodhips”. Being a certain athlete definitely helps but nothing happens by accident
Again. Brilliant commentary. Clearing the hips is essential. Then just knowing where to anchor before shifting body weight suddenly from one side to another. Your opponent has to either give up the position OR lose a limb.
I really enjoy your videos. Thank you for breaking this down. I make sure my kid, a high school wrestler, watches these and I can't wait to see how he improves.
Another great vid man👏👏👏 Peep the Russians setting up the cartwheel by elevating their leg first. This helps prevent a big regrip adjustment by the top guy. I love how much you stressed clearing the hips first, and maybe the“ leg check” should come second? It so slick and a couple times the Russians are even stepping back with an inside leg just touching and checking his opponents leg with maybe a hook fake. This might not be totally necessary but I think it’ll help as sorta a “probing” movement where elevating that leg seals off a step over and beautifully blocks the top man from rotating behind. This also allows the bottom wrestler to almost align hips before hipping over. I think this is key for a clear launch but more importantly, it allows you to feel and judge where those legs are behind you. While practicing this, play around with different angles and posts. Before you launch, you should feel and gauge several variables. How close are those legs and hips? Where are those legs? How far around are they riding? Where are tops arms? This leg answers those questions and assure you stay clear? Once you have that feeling of where the top wrestler is, you’ll adjust the angle, velocity, posts, and timing as needed. Whatever it takes to throw that balance off and forces the scramble. I hope that makes since. The video is so well done and you’re such a great communicator I don’t want to take away that at all. Keep up the great work and crushing the break down game.
this is like the reverse of a granby roll. Granby rolls go the opposite direction. Instead of somersaulting over the opponent you do it AWAY from him as an escape rather than a reversal.
There's a ton of variations on the Granby. I went to a whole ass camp dedicated to them. This isn't really one because you aren't going across your own back, neck or head. You're not hitting the ground except to potentially post with your hand. That makes a difference because part of the point of the granby is to use the point of ground contact as a springboard in the middle of your roll. When you see it done exactly right and with force and momentum, you understand the difference between that and just rolling through. I once pinned a guy WWE style as the force of him being thrown to the ground by my Granby knocked the wind out of him. He might as well have been asleep. 0 resistance. You don't see the Granby in international competition because you're gonna get stuck or give up points (pins and points take less time than in folkstyle). This is similar to some Russian contra (counter) wrestling concepts I learned back in the 90s. From standing, you're countering a very strong overhook. From bottom, you're countering a half leg ride. Fun stuff.
And that's exactly what it is. Low hips win scrambles, throws, etc on the feet. High hips in ground scrambles. Very few exceptions, although they do exist (for the eventual know it all that says ackshually)
You can see it in every sequence. Getting his hips lower is the point of no return for the top man. Sadulaev is an animal. He hits it from overhook while standing almost directly in front of them. That is waaaayyy harder than hitting it from the stand-up.
6:01 That man should just be made illegal. I've never seen an over-hook used like that before. I guess keeping your head on the inside, of the arm that is over-hooked could prevent this. But, if you want someone's back for a rear naked this is beyond easy, to start a scramble (which I favor). Gonna start practicing this, I don't know how I found yah. But glad I did, I think I'm going to focus more on wrestling. I did it in high school but that was ages ago, things are so interesting now. Cool channel, hope you grow!
