Head Hands Defense delivers a focused defensive wrestling system built around hand position, head control, and counter-attacks. Each lesson is short, clear, and built for immediate application in the room. Perfect for wrestlers and coaches who want practical, high-retention defense that wins exchanges.
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Head Hands Defense
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Head In The Pocket
Learn how to use your head position as both a defensive shield and an offensive weapon. This lesson breaks down how to establish, maintain, and regain dominant head position to control your opponent’s movement, apply pressure, and force predictable reactions that create scoring opportunities.
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Guiding The Elbow
Use head pressure to block and redirect level changes into a front headlock. This lesson shows how to follow the elbow, hinge with your head, guide shots aside (backstep or circle), and convert redirections into front headlock control, singles, or back-takes.
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Downblock To Front Headlock
Stop and redirect shots with a down-block into a front headlock. Learn the “shield” mat check, leg positioning, seatbelt arm, and the lid-hand to catch shooters and convert momentum into control.
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Level Changes
Head-tracking drill: keep head-in-the-pocket connection on your feet, use short level-change bursts and light down-blocking to read and beat your partner’s level changes without hanging on.
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Hands Low
Keep your hands low and ready. This lesson shows how to use down-hand positioning to block shots, control ties, and climb into infighting positions—building constant readiness and faster defensive reactions.
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Using Your Hands First
Hands first: make your hands active — flexed grips, two-hands-to-the-leg entries, thumb/elbow blocks, and collar-tie control to create openings and shut down shots.
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Re-attacks
Attack off the opponent’s shot: keep your hands on, read the elbow pull/high-crotch, hop your feet to absorb and ricochet, then retake or finish. Footwork + thumb blocks + head position drive the counters.
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Stopping A Shot
Stop the shot with level tracking. Match your opponent’s level change, drop your shield, guide them into a block or front headlock, and meet pressure without giving ground.
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Downblocking
Primary defense = head position; backup defense = a hard down-block. Learn the mule-kick leg clearance, punch-the-ground down-block, then hook to the chin and snap into a front headlock. Powerful whole-body block → control.
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Reacting To Fakes
Defend fakes with a compact down-block and immediate reshot. Stay low and “in the pocket,” absorb the fake without sprawling, down-block, step and reshoot quickly — work timing, not brute force.
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