The language of wrestling
Feb. 23, 2008 @ 3:42 p.m. by Joannaby joanna
I’m pretty comfortable, knowledge-wise, with most sports. I know a pick-and-roll, a flea flicker, a slide (volleyball). You get my drift.
But wrestling, that’s a whole other thing. I know wrestling’s main words, such as pin (fall), takedown, escape. I even know how most of the scoring works. But there’s been some words, or rather, phrases, thrown around today and yesterday that I just don’t know about.
When I interviewed Heights’ Chase Nelson yesterday, he threw out the head-arm move. It’s not that I need to completely understand it, but I need to know how to spell it or write it. Chase said it needs a hyphen and it’s not head and arm.
Then there’s the other stuff like what I heard screamed from behind me earlier today — Get your head in the hole! (that one made me laugh) Wrist control. Elbow pass. Then from yesterday, the more the kid made was the whizzer. I’m sure you wrestling folks know, but I’m a little lost there.
The best thing about wrestling people, though, is they love their sport, so if you look a little clueless, they’ll fill you in willingly.
