Isiah Martinez's winning takedown in the NCAA Finals

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I saw a thread on Reddit about this the takedown IMAR used to win his second title as a Sophomore against . Jason Nolf. There was a lot of confusion over what he did (including some person who never wrestled telling a former college wrestler it wasn't a throwbye it was a duck..) So the inner nerd in me decided to clarify. I've been obsessing over and playing around with what Mark Perry (IMAR's coach, beat Johnny Hendricks in college) calls an "Iranian Style" underhook ever since I got his instructional on it for Christmas. IMAR's entire game is built around this style and getting to a left handed underhook. To the point that he will take a stalling call because if he doesn't get the tie he wants he will back out of it.

IMAR commonly gets to his shot from a left handed single leg like this


The winning takedown/underhook throwbye that I'm talking about comes around 8:35 (I don't know how to time stamp lol) in the video, the entire match was amazing


This is how you hit it


This is where you can get the entire instructional http://www.championshipproductions....ks_WRD-04894A.html?id=jR6kX9r46sGe&mv_pc=4514
No I'm not a shill, It's just one of my favorite instructionals and gives you an in-depth look at what Martinez does
 
What is the Iranian style underhook? Is it the different head position?

Let's see if this embed works


^ Yep. When you're on YouTube pause the video at the time you want, right click the video and select "copy url at current time" then paste that
 
Gambledub said:
What is the Iranian style underhook? Is it the different head position?

Let's see if this embed works


^ Yep. When you're on YouTube pause the video at the time you want, right click the video and select "copy url at current time" then paste that
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Yeah, you put your head on the opposite side of the underhook, and have your elbow high on the underhook and your other hand either has inside control or a wrist. The offense comes from pressuring into your opponent hard towards the edge usually, with your forehead buried into your opponents trap to prevent getting thrown. It's especially effective in freestyle with the step-out rule. There are usually main reactions the opponent does and IMAR will do one of 3-4 things
1. Opponent plants his lead leg to prevent being driven back: this almost throws you into either a knee pull single or snatch single, because your opponent is pushing himself into the takedown.
2. Opponent plants both feet hard and drives back with his body extended because he doesn't want to keep getting bullied or give up the single leg: this gives you a REALLY powerful "pressure-release" snapdown, if the opponent circles away from the go-behind hard, you go right back to the underhook
3. Opponent circles away from the underhook hard trying to clear it.. straight into a really deep double or high crotch/outside single
4. You can hit the throw bye

The entire series is built around the principle of "pressure-release"

Hope that made sense and thanks for the tip about time stamping it!
 
jack36767 said:
Yeah, you put your head on the opposite side of the underhook, and have your elbow high on the underhook and your other hand either has inside control or a wrist. The offense comes from pressuring into your opponent hard towards the edge usually, with your forehead buried into your opponents trap to prevent getting thrown. It's especially effective in freestyle with the step-out rule. There are usually main reactions the opponent does and IMAR will do one of 3-4 things
1. Opponent plants his lead leg to prevent being driven back: this almost throws you into either a knee pull single or snatch single, because your opponent is pushing himself into the takedown.
2. Opponent plants both feet hard and drives back with his body extended because he doesn't want to keep getting bullied or give up the single leg: this gives you a REALLY powerful "pressure-release" snapdown, if the opponent circles away from the go-behind hard, you go right back to the underhook
3. Opponent circles away from the underhook hard trying to clear it.. straight into a really deep double or high crotch/outside single
4. You can hit the throw bye

The entire series is built around the principle of "pressure-release"

Hope that made sense and thanks for the tip about time stamping it!
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Yeah that makes sense! I imagine that free arm tie up must be really important? Wouldn't you be vulnerable to turning whizzer attacks otherwise?
 
Gambledub said:
Yeah that makes sense! I imagine that free arm tie up must be really important? Wouldn't you be vulnerable to turning whizzer attacks otherwise?
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That helps but the key is keeping your underhook elbow high too. The best way to see it is to watch Isiah Martinez's college matches on YouTube

Once again, I promise I'm not being a shill, but Championship Productions just started an instant video thing where you don't have to order a DVD to get their stuff. I know the international shipping rates for the US to New Zealand must be insane haha. So if you want to get it you can download it. I promise I'm not SBJ lol and a shill, I just love the instructional and the style of underhook. And people looking for wrestling instructionals will get the best bang for their buck there lol
 
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jack36767 said:
That helps but the key is keeping your underhook elbow high too. The best way to see it is to watch Isiah Martinez's college matches on YouTube
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ah ok, I've only ever seen his match with Nolf.
 
jack36767 said:
Yeah, that was an insane match, and I edited my last post lol
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Yeah you can say that again! I might have to check out Championships stuff, digital is a big plus for me because shipping is crazy! I still have around 4-5 digital instructionals I haven't even started watching yet though lol, so unless there's a sale or I go crazy watching stuff it might be a while lol.
 
Gambledub said:
Yeah you can say that again! I might have to check out Championships stuff, digital is a big plus for me because shipping is crazy! I still have around 4-5 digital instructionals I haven't even started watching yet though lol, so unless there's a sale or I go crazy watching stuff it might be a while lol.
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haha alright,
 
jack36767 said:
Yeah, it was weird seeing the person on Reddit trying to argue it.
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I mean, he probably read at least 3, maybe 4 Jack Slack articles which reference wrestling technique to some extent, so... clearly he has the pedigree of a Division I wrestler.
 
Gambledub said:
Dammit, why did you tell me this, I've scrolled through the collection and have a bunch of new tabs open lining up stuff I want.
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I do that all the time :D:p, I finally have a basic list down...the question I internally debate now is what order to get them in. On the bright side, the sample clips for a lot of them are decently long and have a lot of stuff. They're also on YouTube, there's also extra clips On the "wrestling newsletter" playlists on Championship Productions YouTube channel
 
Steve08 said:
I mean, he probably read at least 3, maybe 4 Jack Slack articles which reference wrestling technique to some extent, so... clearly he has the pedigree of a Division I wrestler.
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hahahahahahaha, bravo sir ;). I love Jack Slack's articles even if I disagree sometimes. But I don't pretend to be a striking expert all of a sudden
 
Steve08 said:
I mean, he probably read at least 3, maybe 4 Jack Slack articles which reference wrestling technique to some extent, so... clearly he has the pedigree of a Division I wrestler.
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I like when he acted like Cormier invented "chain fighting"
 
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