Customer Reviews

Wrestling For Beginners

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This book delivers what it promises in the title. It is written for someone who plans to participate in wrestling but has no background in it. Emphasis is placed on basic skills.

The book begins with a brief discussion of wrestling benefits and a bit of history. Then the discussion moves to the seven core skills (stance, level changing, lifting, etc). Each skill is covered in some detail with several excellent photograhps for each major point. The rest of the book is devoted to a representative sample of basic takedowns, escapes, pins, etc.

The book does not cover the sport's organizing bodies, associations, rules, coaching strategies, etc in any depth. Nor does it cover any advanced skills. I did not perceive either of these things to be a lack.

The book's material was well organized and well presnted. There were plenty of clear and helpful photographs accompanying the text.

Overall, I was very pleased and would recommend it to others.

Too often, wrestling coaches and wrestling books fail to build a solid foundation for wrestlers. The athletes wind up not reaching their potential. This book avoids that problem. It teaches the athlete all the basics, without distracting him with advanced topics he is not ready to learn. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to start wrestling, and to many people who have already been into wrestling for a while.

I've looked at a lot of grappling and wrestling books over the years, but none of then covers the basic skills as thoroughly as this one does. The book starts off by giving a history of wrestling, going all the way back to ancient times. Another beginning chapter covers the fundamentals of a wrestling training program, like dieting and the nature of excersises. Much more detail is given to the seven basic wrestling skills: stance, movement, penetration, lifting, back arching, backstep, and changing levels. Easy to follow, black and white photos give examples of both the right and wrong ways to perform these skills. The technique section is very basic, but covers most of the common skills, like the double-leg, high crotch, and head-and-arm throw for takedowns, stand-ups and sitouts in the escapes section, and half Nelson and cradles for the breakdowns/pinning section. The appendix on weight classes and scoring would be helpful to people unfamiliar with the sport, as is the rather extensive glossary. The book is easy to follow, and is essential for understanding the basics of amature wrestling. I'd recomend it to wrestlers of all levels as kind of a "back to the basics" book, to martial artists looking to expand their grappling arsenal, and to those interested in grappling for self-defense, as the throws and escapes are workable in a scuffle.

This is an excellent book for first or second year wrestlers. It's well-illustrated and descriptive in a simple manner. I'd recommend it highly to anyone whose just starting out, or to a parent of a youth or beginning wrestler.

I'm a bjj blue belt, and I bought that book in order to understand the foundation of wrestling. This is not a technique archive, it has a lot of basics, well explained and illustrated, but it aims to lay solid basics, without confusing you with tons of variations. For a comprehensive (set-ups, finishes, counters, etc.) wrestling repertoire I highly suggest the more advanced "Winning Wrestling Moves".

The price is very low, so I don't consider the cheap paper (but the binding is firm) and b/w pictures a real negative, also they are functional and do not detract from the book's content.

I train with two wrestlers, and this book helped me to understand better what they did and tried to teach me. Most of it will be useful to all submission grappling competitors that (like me) don't have a folkstyle/freestyle background.

This book is very good for the beginner wrestler. All of the basics are covered along with a little bit of strategy. This book would also be very good for students of Karate and striking arts to learn basic ground moves like positioning, takedowns, wrist control, using weight, etc.

An excellent book. Especially for people who have recently begun wrestling. Has helped me to understand why posture is so important and why techniques are done the way they are. Very easy to understand and the photo's are great.

My two sons started in this sport and with the help of this book and practice they are understanding and loving wrestling.

My son just joined the high school wrestling team, and he found this book to be helpful. His major complaint was that he would have liked the photos to more clearly show the moves.

Wrestling use many physical power, it is good for young people only.
The wrestling skill unused when some one get old, because their muscles loose & less power.
When study Judo and Aikido at young age, the skill still useful at old age, because it use less physical power.