K-2nd Mukwonago Wrestling Club Singlet Qualification
In order better prepare and ensure our Club wrestlers are ready to wrestle in
tournaments we are requiring
each wrestler to pass a minimum skills test. We have developed a ladder of
skills provide a visible scale of improvement. Before entering competition
wrestlers we will be tested on those skills based on his age level. Wrestling
tournament competition carries with it lots of pressure for the unprepared
wrestlers. We have lost in the past members due to an unprepared entry into
tournament competition? Wrestler isn’t having fun when you get pounded in his
first wrestling experience. Almost as bad, is a kid winning on poor technique,
therefore discouraging the development of proper skills. All MWC wrestlers must
pass his Age-Level set of minimum skills test to earn their MWC singlet to
wrestle in tournaments.
Most skills have been video-taped and are on our web site.
Basic Skills test
(Feet) Proper stance, movement
1 Demonstrate Proper Stance and Movement (forward, back, sideways)
Set-ups to takedowns
2 Demonstrate a “Post set-up” when opponent reaches for you catch arms
under elbows, lower level
3 Demonstrate “wrist control set-up” Option 1: pull wrists apart,
penetration step. Option 2: snap wrists straight down, as he pulls back up,
penetration step. Take downs
4 Demonstrate a Good Take down Penetration (lower level, “step forward”
Step 6-12 inches, , Knee ” drive knee to mat; hips and chest should be touching
opponent)
5 Demonstrate a Double leg takedown- Penetration step between legs, head outside, finish behind. Takedown counters
6 Demonstrate Full Nelson, and explain it’s a penalty
7 Demonstrate your sprawl skills kick feet back, weight on opponent, your chest on his shoulders, catch 1 hand on head & other on elbow, spin behind) (Bottom Position) Escapes and Reversals
8 Demonstrate good bottom base (Butt all the way down, head up, elbows
slightly bent.
9 Demonstrate Stand-Up (head and shoulders up, post inside foot, while getting 4-finger control, push back to feet, push opponents hand to your hip, chop out finish in stance)
10 Demonstrate the Counter from a 1/2 Nelson (head look up and away from
half, post hand on mat, push your head away & up)
11 Demonstrate Belly to Base (bring knee up, pivot over knee back to base)
12 Demonstrate Bridging (post feet on mat, arch on feet & top of head, hip hoist to belly) (Top Position) Breakdowns and Rides
13 Demonstrate good Top base (right leg behind opponents butt, left knee down by ankle, left hand on opponents elbow, last right hand on bellybutton (your head long opponents spine) be ready to start”)
14 Demonstrate Ankle breakdown to belly (move belly hand to ankle, move elbow hand to knee, drive sideways with chest, collapsing the hips, ideally finish to 1/2 nelson)
15 Demonstrate Locked Hands, and explain that it’s a penalty
16 Demonstrate Hooks & tell why important
17 Demonstrate Counter to the Stand-Up (lift/return to mat) Lock/Unlock
hands.
18 Demonstrate breakdown to Belly, then to 1/2 Nelson (elbow deep)
