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crotch lift

Wrestling defense technique against a single leg: the defender slips his inside hand between the attacker's legs and the outside hand to the outside, grips, controls, and takes him to the side to take the back or get back up.

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« He is going to slip his right hand inside and his left hand outside. He grabs, he controls, he takes him to the side so he can then capitalize in the third and attack the back or at least get back up. »

Aldric Cassata · at 21:14
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