Strider Wrestling Blog

Once you learn a double leg takedown, transitioning to a single leg takedown shouldn't be that hard. The step is almost the same. You still lower your level and make your attack. You're still grabbing legs. The main difference is where you step. A double leg is an inside step and a single leg is an outside step. Make a slight adjustment to a double leg, and you get a single leg. This was the concept used tonight at Lawndale to introduce the single leg takedown. It was much easier to teach this move with the foundation of the double leg already in place. As such, the wrestlers picked it up very quickly.

Not every wrestler will have a top notch double leg and a top notch single leg. I personally did not score often with a double leg takedown, though I scored countless times by attacking one leg at a time. I had a teammate who rarely scored with a single leg, yet took down many opponents, even even in matches he lost, with his double leg. Of course, each of us knew and could execute both techniques thanks to the inherent similarities. Our goal in coaching wrestling is not to create a team of wrestlers who all wrestle the same way, but instead we want to show enough technique so that the wrestlers can find what works for them as they learn to be complete wrestlers.