Wrestling

The Wrestling section opens with a familiar name and a familiar doctrine. JJ Howland — the USMC veteran whose "first is a trap, the second finishes" chain sits at Takedowns #22 — states it in pure wrestling terms: bait with one attack, attack with two. It is the right founding entry for this shelf: wrestling's stand-up game is chain wrestling, where the first shot's real job is to make the second one inevitable.

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Wrestling's second entry comes from a national champion: Josh Harkless — NCAA Division III title, three-time All-American — runs a quick underhook into a high crotch setup, the tie that becomes the shot. Short and clean, the way wrestling entries should be: win the underhook, and the high C is already halfway taken.

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JJ Howland returns to Wrestling with the simplest instruction on the shelf: keep driving forward. His caption tips its hat to the Russians — "no wonder they do it better" — and the reel is filed by that doctrine rather than a named shot: pressure first, feet moving, and the takedown finished by refusing to go backwards.

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"Have you seen this throw before?" Amr Ghoneim — two-time JJIF NoGi world champion, out of Bigfoot Grappling in Ontario — launches a suplex, tagged #suplex and #wrestling in his own caption, so it lands on the Wrestling shelf. His third shelf in the archive: he already lives in Takedowns and Chokes.

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