Also known as an inverted stunner, the wrestler stands facing the opponent, places their shoulder under the jaw of the opponent and holds the opponent in place before falling into a sitting or kneeling position, driving the jaw of the opponent into their shoulder. This is especially effective if the opponent is on their knees instead of lying flat, which is why the half nelson should not be attempted until the opponent's stomach is on the ground. The wrestler applies a headlock on the opponent, then runs towards the ropes and bounces off, driving the opponent face-first into mat as they land. Step 7: Chicken Wing and a Half. A neckbreaker variation also exists where the wrestler lifts the opponent on their shoulders in a fireman's carry, then lifts their opponent over and grabs the head before slamming them down in a neckbreaker slam. The half nelson is a move where the opponent on top slides his hand in between arm and head and applies pressure to the head to turn the opponent over to this back. Austin Theory is currently using this move as a finisher ever since he moved up to the main roster as the "A-Town Down". This facebreaker involves an attacking wrestler, who is standing face-to-face with an opponent, hooking both hands around the opponent's head and then leaping to bring both knees up to the face of the opponent. The wrestler then proceeds by holding their opponent's legs with one arm and applying a headlock with their other arm in a similar fashion to an air raid crash. Alexa Bliss uses this as a signature move, normally followed by her rope-assisted repeated stomps. The wrestler then lifts the opponent upside down or on to their shoulders, and then sits down, driving the opponent between their legs, head and shoulder first. This move is used as a finishing move by Gail Kim (Eat Defeat), Chuck Taylor (Sole Food), Xavier Woods (Lost in the Woods) and Enzo Amore (JawdonZo). The other closely resembles a Death Valley driver. This is accomplished by using the hand to press the opponent's neck down, while using the arm under the opponent's shoulder to lift the shoulder and drive it perpendicularly to the opponent's body. Wrestling. [17] The wrestler hangs on to the opponents legs for a pin-fall attempt. Buddy Murphy uses a pumphandle lift version called "Murphy's law". The opponent lands face-first into the mat, with their upper body damaged. This move is performed when an opponent runs towards the wrestler facing them. W1 should be perpendicular to W2 as he begins to force him to his back (c). This top rope flipping slam sees a wrestler stand under an opponent, who is situated on the top turnbuckle, turn their back to this opponent while taking hold of the opponent's arms from below, often holding underneath the opponent's arm pits. by Peter Urban May 16, 2006. In amateur wrestling a strong quarter nelson can be used to secure a pin, or to control the opponent and advance into a more dominant position. Another variation sees the wrestler placing one hand behind the opponent's head and the other behind the back, then falling backwards into a bulldog. This move was used by The One Billy Gunn and nicknamed The One and Only and later popularized by Ted DiBiase Jr., who named it the Dream Street. Your first objective is to gather the far wrist by running over it. Facing their opponent, the wrestler reaches between their opponent's legs with their stronger arm and reaches around their back from the same side with their weaker arm. One of the opponent's arms is pulled back between their legs and held, while the other arm is hooked. The wrestler then tosses the opponent overhead by throwing both the opponent's legs forward, slamming the opponent back-first. Ted DiBiase and his son Ted DiBiase Jr have used this move as a finisher. This move was used as a finisher for wrestlers such as Batista, The Undertaker, Kevin Nash, Chyna, JBL, among others. Catch wrestling allows the full nelson and generally uses it as an immobilization technique and form of neck crank submission. Step 8: Far Side Finish [11] The move also has a variation where the opponent is sitting on the top rope, that variation is also referred to as frankensteiner. This move sees the standing wrestler place the opponent stomach down on their shoulder so that they both are facing the same direction. From this position they can try to turn over, either toward or away from the aggressor. Professional Wrestling: Where Sports and Theater Collide, ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nelson_hold&oldid=1144978629, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 March 2023, at 15:57. The attacking wrestler first lifts their opponent over their shoulders in a fireman's carry position. The wrestler takes the opponent's legs up under their arms, similar to the setup for a catapult, but instead pivots, spinning around to lift the opponent off the mat. The wrestler then spins around in a circle and drops into a seated position, driving the opponent face-first into the mat. The wrestler hooks a half nelson hold on his opponent with one arm and his opponents waist with the other. Drive your shoulder into their chest as you turn the same hip down to ensure the pin. A nelson hold is a grappling hold which is executed by one person from behind the opponent, generally when both are on the mat face down with the opponent under the aggressor. An inverted variation of this move also exists. This is due to it being easier to climb on an opponent while in the corner as balance is easily retained, and it allows the maximum length of ring to propel the opponent across. If they are doing that, pull them up to a sit position and perform either finish. Coaching Point. Then, the attacker lifts the opponent before falling forward to slam the opponent back-first into the mat. Michael Elgin uses a sit-out variation of the Burning Hammer so as not to hurt the head or neck of his opponent allowing them to roll left or right, while Tyler Reks' Burning Hammer saw her flip the opponent onto their stomach before impact (as in an inverted Fireman's Carry Takeover). This move was also popularized by Trish Stratus, who used it as a signature move, called the Stratusphere. 4/1/11 7:00 PM. Step 1 of Half Nelson Wrestling Technique: The Breakdown With your best breakdown, in this case the ankle down, break your opponent to their belly. In just his second varsity season, Nelson helped the Green Raiders to their second straight winning campaign and was the only Delaware County wrestler to bring a medal home from states. The wrestler then falls backwards to the mat, thus forcing the opponent to fall forwards and impact the exposed knees. A slight variation is the sitout side slam spinebuster where the opponent is lifted like a side slam but dropped into a sitout spinebuster.[20]. It is also used by Trevor Murdoch as a finisher. In Japan, a backdrop is the term for what is called a belly-to-back suplex in America, so in Japan, it is called shoulder throw. He is beneath you, belly down on the mat. From this position, various throws can be performed. Also known as the UFO (Unidentified Flying Opponent), this move is performed from an Argentine Backbreaker Rack Hold. A fireman's carry involves the wrestler holding the opponent in place over both shoulders. Former NXT Rookie Percy Watson used a variant in which he holds his opponent in a fireman's carry before transitioning into a flapjack, dubbing this move Percycution. The opponent lies on their side on the shoulders of the wrestler, facing either the opposite or the same direction as the wrestler, with the wrestler holding the opponent by the lower leg and either the head or lower arm. The wrestler performs the fireman's carry from a standing position, then tosses the opponent off their shoulders as they drop down to their knees, causing the opponent to land on their back. WWE wrestler Melina popularized this move. The British Bulldog used it regularly as signature move. This move is an STO where the wrestler would first apply a chokehold with one hand before sweeping their opponent's leg. The move was innovated by Lou Thesz. Cody Rhodes has been using this as a signature move due to being trained by Hardcore Holly. noun. The aggressor's free hand is used to minimize struggling by hooking the opponent's near or far leg or crotch. The full nelson (sometimes called a double nelson or a double shoulder lock) is done by performing half nelsons with both arms. A pop-up is a flapjack where the attacker, upon facing an opponent rushing towards them, flings the opponent vertically up into the air without holding on to the opponent. The wrestler then bends the opponent's back and slams their face to the mat. The Death Valley driver was innovated by Louie Spicolli (although he credited Etsuko Mita as the DVD originator). The wrestler then hooks the opponent's near leg and throws themselves backwards, driving the opponent back-first to the ground. This causes an effect to the whole spine and neck. Understand that if you get to this step, youll probably have to use a combination of the sweep and spike half nelsons to get them onto their side. Once you get the half nelson, the series starts. The wrestler wrestler performs the fireman's carry from a standing position, then swings the opponent around and drops them Sitout side powerslam. The hand not performing the nelson is placed on the opponent's head to increase the overall power of the half nelson. The most common version sees the wrestler turn the opponent upside-down and drop the opponent shoulder-first on the wrestler's knee. One of the opponent's arms is pulled back between their legs and held, while the other arm is hooked (pumphandle). The wrestler grabs one of the opponent's arms, jumps and connects both their knees against the opponent's stretched arm. The move was innovated by Johnny Ace, calling it the Ace Crusher II and later popularized by Billy Gunn, who called it the Famouser (which was also used by Dolph Ziggler) or Fame-Ass-Er, the latter name used when he wrestled as "Mr. This move is used to weaken the leg for a submission manoeuvre. The wrestler applies a cobra clutch and then leaps forward, falling into a sitting position and driving the face of the opponent into the ground. The changeover is an effective way to combat a good half nelson, you have to be ready for it. Invented by Kodo Fuyuki and inspired by Chamaco Valaguez's La Valagueza submission maneuver[18], this move is performed when an attacking wrestler hooks both an opponent's legs with their arms and tucks their head in next to the opponent's before standing and lifting the opponent up, so that they are upside down with their head resting on the attacking wrestler's shoulder. The quarter nelson involves putting one hand on the opponent's neck or grabbing the opponent's chin, passing the free arm under the arm of the opponent, and locking the free arm to the other arm by clasping the wrist. Master a series which is both technical, and punishing! It is simply a reduction compared to the full Nelson. Begins with the wrestler holding the opponent in a full nelson. The move was originated by Phillip Michael Grant, and later popularized by Chris Jericho, who named it the Codebreaker. You will need to use your hips and legs to drive the weight forward to keep their head down to later apply the half nelson. half nelson in American English. The attacking wrestler uses the hold to lift the opponent up over their shoulder, while over the shoulder the attacking wrestler would fall forward to slam the opponent against the mat back-first, normally the type of powerslam delivered is a front powerslam. This variation of the spinebuster sees the wrestler lift the opponent by their waist as in the standard version, but then place their dominant hand onto the opponent's chest in order to slam them, similarly to a chokeslam. The move is used by Hiroshi Tanahashi, with some commentators even calling the move a 'Tanahashi' when anybody performs it due to how associated it is with him. The wrestler hooks a half nelson hold on their opponent with one arm and their opponent's waist with the other, then leaps forward into a sitting position, driving the face of the opponent into the ground. Several different nelson holds exist, and they can be separated according to the positioning of the encircling arm(s). Use your free hand to hold your opponent's other wrist so the half nelson can't be broken. Whilst giving the illusions of slamming the opponent's head into the ground, a properly executed standard piledriver has the opponent's head barely touching the ground, if at all. Let me know if you have any questions or requests. This move was used by Mojo Rawley. It has been suggested that it was named after Horatio Nelson, who used strategies based on surrounding the opponent to win the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of Trafalgar; it was also suggested that Bobby Nelson was the innovator and/or the name inspiration of the Nelson hold.[1]. The wrestler may roll on to their side to give the move extra momentum. With the power half, the opponent used two hands to apply more pressure to the half nelson. This can also be a lariat-legsweep combination to slam down the opponent. A chokeslam is any body slam in which the wrestler grasps their opponent's neck, lifts them up, and slams them to the mat, causing them to land on their back. For other uses, see, Fireman's carry headlock spinning elbow drop, WWE: The Rock: The Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment (, dropping a leg across the nape of a leaning forward opponent, Learn how and when to remove this template message, stay seated to reach back hook to hook the opponents legs to attempt to score a pinfall, Professional wrestling double-team maneuvers, "Radican's DGUSA internet PPV report 9/10: Complete coverage of DGUSA show from Chicago", "TNA Impact report: Ken Anderson has a new catchphrase, ODB reveals why she attacked Velvet Sky, Abyss continues his reign of terror over the X-Division, a new champion is crowned, RVD and Piter F Angle have their "first match ever" in the main event, and more", "Mary Lillian Ellison, 84, the Fabulous Moolah, Is Dead", "Jericho, Benoit on their time in Mexico - Lucha Libre: A spicy Mexican treat", "World Class Championship Wrestling - November 28, 1986", "Big Poppa Is Pumped - wrestler Scott Steiner - Interview", "Wilkenfeld's TNA Impact report 4/30: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of Spike TV broadcast", "Wilkenfeld's TNA Impact report 6/10: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of Spike TV broadcast [updated]", "Keller's ECW on Sci-Fi 8/22: Sabu vs. Big Show rematch, Punk vs. Anderson, Thorn vs. This is a basic though super effective wrestling move used commonly in amateur wrestling. A variation of the Michinoku Driver II in which the wrestler stands behind the opponent, applies an inverted facelock, lifts them upside down, and then drops down to a sitting position, driving the opponent down to the mat between the wrestler's legs upper back first. The wrestler turns and twists their body so their back is horizontally against the opponent's torso. An Irish whip into the ring ropes is usually used to set the opponent up for another technique as he/she bounces off. If you feel yourself getting too high, release the wrist and get the pin by applying the same half nelson finish and the previous situations. Also known as an inverted frankensteiner or a poison rana, this move uses a standard Frankensteiner, but instead of performing the move facing the opponent's face, it is done facing the back of the opponent. Popularized by Samoa Joe as one of his finishers (he uses an electric chair version falling backwards, sparing the opponent's neck) until 2015 when he accidentally injured Tyson Kidd, which ended his wrestling career and almost paralyzed him. What is Prime Wrestling?Position + Precision = Prime Wrestling Coach Nathanimal is the head coach at the 505 Wrestling Club in Albuquerque, NMFollow us!Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/505wrestlingclub/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/505wrestlingclub/Websitehttps://505wrestlingclub.comTwitterhttps://twitter.com/505wrestlingSnapchat@The505wc A reverse-thrown variation exists, which sees the wrestler drop the opponent in the opposite direction feet-first. Many of these moves are used as finishers by various wrestlers, who refer to them by several different names that reflect their gimmick. A variation involving a standing double underhook rather than the guillotine choke also exists. It was innovated by Chris Kanyon. 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