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Wrestling Up
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Also called: stand up, wrestle, wrestle up, wrestling out, wrestling up
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7channels
2 gi · 5 no-gi
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Nicky Ryan's Wrestle Up Series by Nicky Ryan
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Explore the wider topic · Wrestling up from guard
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- Read the opponent’s leg position
- Time entries against a step
- Combine pushing and pulling reactions
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3Built on
4Reached from
6- Seated GuardWhen: when in proper posture with one heel to butt
- Deep Half GuardWhen: using legs to fight for position and attempt to wrestle up
- Guard RetentionWhen: defending from bottom leads to wrestle up escape
- Shin to ShinWhen: opponent steps out of sweep, swap hands and post
- Single Leg X GuardWhen: hike leg and wrestle to standing
- Seated PositionWhen: from seated, use leg connection to wrestle up to hips
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