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Iowa Style Top Wrestling by Tom Brands

Punish Opponents From The Top Position With This Pressure-Based System From Olympic Champion, World Champion, and Iowa Head Wrestling Coach Tom Brands!

  • Tom Brands is a wrestling icon, known with his brother Terry for living the tough-nosed, pressure-filled “Iowa Style” that brought them to global success
  • Score points and put matches away with Tom Brands’s guide to creating the tightest and most secure pinning combinations possible
  • Get tips on keeping opponents flat, returning them to the mat, and creating hip pressure and awareness
  • Transition from feet to the mat with Tom’s guide to chain wrestling through positions like the optional start, rear standing, and more
  • Tom Brands is one of the most successful and respected coaches in America, and an Olympic Champion, World Champion, and multiple-time national champion

Course Content

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Volume 1

CHAPTER TITLE

START TIME

Intro 0
Breakdowns - ‘Behind the arms’ / Hip Pressure Drill 2:35
Near Arm Far Waist Breakdown 6:33
Near Waist Ankle Breakdow 8:21

Volume 2

CHAPTER TITLE

START TIME

Cross Wrist 0
Chicken Wing 4:38
Chicken Wing Cheap Tilt 12:45
Back Elbow Hook to Chicken Wing 14:09
Turk: Inside Out and Outside In 16:17

Volume 3

CHAPTER TITLE

START TIME

Near Wrist - Breakdown to Near Wrist 0
Near Wrist When Opponent Builds Base 3:46
Near Wrist Turn 7:05
Keeping Your Opponent Flat 14:04
Transition Near Wrist / Cross Wrist 15:52

Volume 4

CHAPTER TITLE

START TIME

Takedown to Breakdown - Chain Wrestling - Takedown to Cross or Near Wrist 0
Rear Standing Mat Return Transition 5:55
Optional Start to Cow Catcher or Cradle 9:19
Grind vs Explosive 18:50
Outro 23:00

Punish Opponents From The Top Position With This Pressure-Based System From Olympic Champion, World Champion, and Iowa Head Wrestling Coach Tom Brands!

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What Will You Learn?

Learn from one of the greatest coaches in America as Tom Brands joins Fanatic Wrestling to show how you can create winning pressure from the top position and use it to create highly effective pinning combinations. Score points and pinfalls with these near wrist and cross wrist techniques, as Coach Brands takes you step-by-step through everything you’ll need to know for success!

Coach Tom Brands is now on Fanatic Wrestling for the first time, showing the Iowa-Style top system that he and many of his athletes have been successful with over the years. You will see all the best ways to break your opponent down, use wrist control to start controlling them and setting up pinning combinations, and then how you can begin to chain your wrestling together for even more success.

See some of the same techniques that Tom Brands used when he was an athlete, winning World and Olympic championships for the USA, and dominating the NCAA competition to multiple titles. These tilts, chicken wings, turks, and more are moves that his own athletes use to huge NCAA success, with Tom’s Iowa Hawkeyes winning multiple Team titles.

Don’t miss out on your opportunity to pick up this four-part series and get insights and tips from one of the best wrestlers in USA history, coach Tom Brands. With hours of coaching from him on how to improve your wrestling from the top position, you will be able to have more success in keeping opponents down and scoring points as you create pressure.

So, What Exactly Do You Get?

PART 1

  • INTRO

    • BREAKDOWNS

  • 'BEHIND THE ARMS' / HIP PRESSURE DRILL
  • NEAR ARM FAR WAIST BREAKDOWN
  • NEAR WAIST ANKLE BREAKDOWN

    • PART 2

    CROSS WRIST

  • CHICKEN WING
  • CHICKEN WING CHEAP TILT
  • BACK ELBOW HOOK TO CHICKEN WING
  • TURK: INSIDE OUT AND OUTSIDE IN

    • PART 3

    NEAR WRIST

  • BREAKDOWN TO NEAR WRIST
  • NEAR WRIST WHEN OPPONENT BUILDS BASE
  • NEAR WRIST TURN
  • KEEPING YOUR OPPONENT FLAT
  • TRANSITION NEAR WRIST / CROSS WRIST

    • PART 4

    TAKEDOWN TO BREAKDOWN - CHAIN WRESTLING

  • TAKEDOWN TO CROSS OR NEAR WRIST
  • REAR STANDING MAT RETURN TRANSITION
  • OPTIONAL START TO COW CATCHER OR CRADLE
  • GRIND VS EXPLOSIVE
  • OUTRO

    • $147


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