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 changing the positioning of your knuckles.
Imagine you have a belt in your hands going through a heavyweighted object. While your arm firmly grasps the belt, you rise your knuckles upwards toward the ceiling.
How Do I Train The Rise?
You can rest your elbow on your leg like a bicep a concentration curl, wrap a martial arts belt around your hand, attach weight to the end of the martial arts belt, and then pull upwards and rotate your knuckles upwards parallel to your feet to simulate the rise movement.
Like all exercise movements, you work along two metrics to train this effectively: time (endurance) and weight (strength).
You can increase the time you hold the position upwards, although you are better off trying to move the belt/weight upwards to simulate a real competition quickly.
A better movement would be to consistently increase the weight of the rise by 5 lbs every two weeks. This way, you can work up to an increasingly heavier weight and save yourself from potential injury. In exercise, this is known as progression overload. The rise can be combined with back pressure for a top roll movement.
Is It Necessary To Train This Movement For Armwrestling?
100%. The rise is incorporated into almost every armwrestling technique. Nailing this down will make you one of the greatest armwrestlers at the table. Devon Larratt is a massive fan of training this fundamental movement — if he is training it, so should you.