Winning Wrestling Moves by Mark Mysnyk, Barry Davis, Brooks Simpson

• A basic skill is either a fundamental wrestling technique or a skill that is key to several other moves.
• In either case, all wrestlers should master these seven basic skills: stance and movement, penetration step, lifting, hip heist, back arch, step back, and coming to a base.
• Stay on the balls of your feet when you move; take short steps, and never cross your legs. Your knees should be comfortably bent and your body flexed slightly forward at the wait. Your elbows stay close to your side to protect you from your opponent's offensive attack, ahdn your hands should remain in front so you can stop your opponent if he shoots in.
• In the hip heist the hips are lifted, or hoisted, off the mat and then rapidly and powerfully turned. The move can be used as an escape from almost all positions.
• Coming to a base refers to getting up from flat on your belly to your hands and knees. The correct way of getting to your base after you’ve been broken flat onto the mat is to bring one knee up to your side and then to push back over that knee.
• A more effective way to grab his wrist is with your palm facing out and your thumb on the bottom. It is much more difficult to break this grip.
• One of the basic things you want to do consistently is to get your opponent’s head down.
• Whenever you have an underhook, your opponent has an overhook (and different offensive possibilities of his own). It is therefore essential that you are lifting his arm and elbow with your underhook, thus controlling him.
• The most important basic principle for escapes and reversals is to always have hand control. Getting hand control should be the first step in almost every escape. Without it, good position, effort, and all subsequent moves may simply be wasted.