| Show HALF NELSON NELSO N CROTCH Con considered d simplest grip in wrestling Wrest lino business champion frank gotch won amerl can title first time by mean means of thie this corr gives pa pow v erful Levera leverage oc HE half nelson te is the primal hold THE la in wrestling it Is considered the simplest grip in tho the business yet it Is important for an infinite number of combinations may bo be secured in conjunction with it the most important of these Is the crotch a grip barred in greco roman wrestling but greco Grec roman Is only halt half wrestling at it bara bars half ball the holds some of my hardest matches have been won by securing the halt half nelson in conjunction with the crotch says sayd 1 1 I I the the worlds champion won american title the first time by th tb 4 fise of this combination jenkins was a J tough customer strong rough and capable of great endurance en aurance when I 1 I 1 secured the crotch and abd bait halt nelson kielson picked jenkins tp at r us 24 dammed him to the mat four our times in n slon it robbed him of bis his strength and I 1 won vron in a hurry huffy in many of ny my hardest matches I 1 baye haye secured the crotch hold bold first by a ruse to get gel some other grip then I 1 faste fastened qed on a half nelson and ro the combination until my ray opponent succumbed I 1 defeated defer ted mahmout Mab Brah mout the areat roat bulgarian wrestler or in this way in our match in chicago several years ago thie this bulgarian gave me we a harder battle than those who watched the battle probably figured I 1 set a trap for him however and he fell into it going down to defeat in two boute bouts on a balf nelson and crotch how the half nelson and crotch may bo be secured Is illustrated by the way I 1 got kot it on the bulgarian mahmout had put up a game same battle he was beginning to worry me we a bit bite but I 1 had figured out the proper method of overcoming his crouch I 1 put my hand back of his head and I 1 jerked him forward this alced him and continued enabled me we to go behind him and wrestle him to the mat there ie to one thing mahmout had been cautioned to avoid the toe hold bul but that proved his d downfall when m I 1 nt PI T 1 6 ct I 1 ap wp w P I 1 ai gotch in Hal fNelson and crotch hold 1 made a motion to iet get this grip he turned on his bide side to protect his tops toes aa As he made this move I 1 thrust my right arm through his legs for a catch lold he tried to spin out and aa as he did so halt turning around I 1 slipped my left hand band under his left arm and completed the halt nelson and crotch combination then there is another thing that a haild not be overlooked when the crotch id la secured along with the half nelson one should ram the arm as far under his opponents leg lip a possible this enables one to hold hie his opponent more securely and gives the attacker greater lifting power with thia powerful leverage in which mahmout had a part it was next to impossible for the bulgarian to escape I 1 gradually forced him down bearing a ing aing all my weight on hie his resisting shoulder until ho he sank back in defeat sometimes the half nelson is so go cured and when the defensive nalva wrest wrestled let is in the act of spinning oat the crotch is added many forma forms of the halt half nelson are employed farmer bums burns says he knows seventeen the grip is seldom used hOw however Overt c capt in conjunction with other holds md for the purpose of forcing a hedtler ler into sin unguarded guarded positions lions I 1 ha hava won ft a majority of my 1 notches aphes with the half nelson aa as a partial weapon of of fet fenee tise 11 copyright 1912 1911 by jocash H bowles bow lee |
