Category: Armwrestling Techniques
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Become Captain Ahab With A Bicep Harpoon: How To Use The Armwrestling High Hook
An Expert Armwrestling Move That Can Change Your Match’s Outcome Captain Ahab, are you here at last? Strap in and put your elbows on the table because today we will go over the high hook. This move is an inside, closed-grip armwrestling technique with some serious pros and benefits…and a handful of unfortunate cons. What…
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Inside Vs. Outside Armwrestling Techniques
Not The Same As Open Vs. Closed Gripping Techniques—While Related, It Is Important To Know The Difference And How It All Hooks Together! While open and closed techniques are related to inside and outside armwrestling, there are key differences that need to be highlighted. If you can understand what stances, grips, positioning and techniques are…
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What Are Open And Closed Armwrestling Techniques?
Open Vs. Closed Armwrestling Techniques: The Power Of Hand Positioning Armwrestlers usually specialize in two types of armwrestling hand positions and grips to armwrestle: Open and closed. Today, we will cover all the open and closed armwrestling techniques so you can begin to deploy them in your next match. Perhaps, you will find a style…
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The King’s Move: What Is It And Is It Legal?
This Is Quite Possibly The Most Controversial Technique In Armwrestling I promise you, the King’s Move is not a competition to see who can get their whole body under the table. However, it is one of the most controversial and hated techniques ever used in an armwrestling match. What Is The King’s Move? The King’s…
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The Armwrestling Press: The Pushing Armwrestling Technique
Only The Biggest And The Baddest Can Use This Finishing Move You will hear me all the time on this blog say, “Never rotate and push/press an opponent.” Well, there is actually one technique where you can do this: the press. The armwrestling press, or lever press, is a closed armwrestling technique reserved for the biggest…
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Executing Proper Technique For Armwrestling
It Is Critical To Armwrestle Correctly To Win A Match And Protect Against Possible Injury Proper armwrestling technique is twofold: It allows you to be more effective with your armwrestling strength, and it can protect you against injury. Let’s break down the key components of a proper armwrestling technique to keep you strong and healthy!…
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Hand Size: How Much Does It Matter In Armwrestling?
The Crazy Cool Part About This? It Is Not As Much As You Think! If you have smaller hands than most behemoth armwrestlers, I wouldn’t worry too much. The sport accounts for hand size differences in a multitude of ways. While hand size is a genetic factor and big hands mean you could be a…
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The Personas Armwrestlers Use To Get Into Their Competitions Heads
Mind Games Can Be Quite Effective At The Table: Let’s Have Some Fun With This Piece How much will the power of mind games come into armwrestling? It can be quite a significant factor, especially if you are neck-and-neck with the competition. Let’s explore some of the most hilariously named armwrestling personas coined by the…
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There Is One Trick That Will Help You Win 99% Of All Armwrestling Matches
Don’t Worry I am Not Going To Keep You Waiting… If you want to show up at a dive bar and win every armwrestling match singlehandedly, pull. Don’t rotate; pull. The non-scientific way of saying this is that it puts you in an advantageous position. The science behind it lies behind the physics. Why You…
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Monday Movement: The Rise In Armwrestling
This Movement Is Incorporated Into A Multitude Of Armwrestling Movements To Help You Dominate The Table What exactly is “The Rise” in armwrestling? Simply put, it’s initiated as soon as the match begins and it’s when you use your bicep and pronation strength to lift the opponent’s arm and hand upwards and towards you by…
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What The Toproll Technique Is And How To Train It Like A Monster
This Is One Of The Greatest Armwrestling Techniques Of All Time The toproll is arguably one of the strongest armwrestling movements to train and is one of the best techniques to employ while you are armwrestling in a competition. It is more difficult to use against experienced arm wrestlers, but if you can initiate this…
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Cupping vs. Hooking: What Are These Armwrestling Techniques?
Let’s get you what you came here for and quickly give you the honest answer: cupping is a type of isolated strength in armwrestling that involves flexion of the wrist inwards, whereas hooking is a compound movement that encompasses cupping strength and full-body technique. What Is The Cupping Technique In Armwrestling? “Cupping” or “cupping strength”…
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Armwrestling Back Pressure: The Key To Winning Almost Any Match
What is back pressure? Imagine you only have one arm. Now imagine you are using that one arm to pull a floor-mounted level that takes 2,000 lbs of pressure to pull towards you. Now, close your eyes. What is your stance like? How are you planting your feet? How is your arm moving? How does…
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The Most Important Movements In Armwrestling
Develop your ability to perform, hold, and maintain static holds using all three dimensions of your arm. What does this mean? Let’s break down the dimensions and the static movements required to make you successful at armwrestling and help you build massive arms. Supinated Bicep Movements For Armwrestling Supination is a form of pull movement…