12 WAYS TO BREAK YOUR OPPONENT
1. Out-Pummel him: ..Physically you will move faster with a lot of change of direction…push and pull him keeping him off balance and forcing him to move in a manner that he is not intending to move in…should include many tie-up changes i.e. collar tie left, then right, then two-on-one, then under hook, then shot, then arm drag attempt, then shot, then two-on-one, then collar his left, right, push, pull, under hook, circle him, snap, foot sweep. This is what I call your “dance”…You must create your own personal “dance” that in time becomes your natural method of attacking your opponent.
2. In matches when you do go out of bounds, you always hustle back to the center…
3. When you both go into the wall in the practice room, you spin him around and keep wrestling or you can use the wall to help you get hold and continue to wrestle (if your walls are padded). No stopping or walking back to the center of the mat…
4. When you take him down you turn him right away (no stopping to let him up). When you take him down you always go immediately into a turning attempt. Most wrestlers will pause/relax after they get taken down…
5. …Gently or forcibly push him up from behind and as he stands up you spin him around, getting right back into his face…
6. …If you go to push him up and he doesn’t stand up, then you circle out to the front of him and pull him back up to his feet by cupping your hand under his chin and pulling him up…Or, if you go to push him up and he doesn’t stand up, you circle out to the front but instead of pulling him up, you just push down on his head with one of your hands, then with the other hand. You continue to push his head down two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight times alternating hands until he gets the picture that you will not just let up on him…
7. If he takes you down and stops wrestling, you continue to wrestle, jumping at the chance to reverse him or take him down when he pauses.
8. If you ever get put on your back you always fight off no matter what * YOU NEVER STOP WRESTLING.
9. If you turn him to his back and he stops wrestling, you don’t. You either hold him for a time (loosely or tightly) or you tell him “Come on, keep fighting!”
10. When you go out of bounds you continue to wrestle for 2 seconds after you hear the whistle…-whenever your opponent stops wrestling and you don’t, it will break him a bit more.
11. When he stops in the middle of your goes (in practice) to tie his shoe, adjust his shorts, fix his t-shirt *you continue to wrestle in his face. If you are kind enough to let him actually do this then at a minimum you hover over him, just inches away from his body, eagerly anticipating continued engagement. The moment he finishes tying, adjusting or fixing you immediately engage again…Always in his face, always attacking, always pulling him up, pushing him down, or spinning him around…No pauses, no breaks, no rests.
12. If the battle ever gets heated where your opponent punches you, you don’t let it faze you one bit. You continue to attack him like you hardly even noticed him punching you…stay under control, never punching him back.