01/22/2026
Knowing moves (often associated with exercise, technique, or routines) and movement skills (the underlying ability to control, coordinate, and adapt the body) represent two different approaches to physical training and capability.
As you progress in wrestling or other combat sports, try to focus on the latter, i.e., movement skills. Why? In wrestling we have a finite number of 'moves', like single-leg takedowns, ducks, mat returns, etc., while any one of these moves will need to be applied in an infinite number of ways.
Consider this posted video of a mind-blowing duck under performed by . Be sure to watch the slowed down version several times...how low he gets, the movement of his feet outward, how both knees are on the mat together for just a split second... 🤯
This is not a duck that was accomplished through 10,000+ hours of dry repetitions...repetition, after all, is not the mother of skill.
This was an application of elite movement skills honed through a lifetime of wrestling in competitions and practices that mimicked the randomness of opponents' reaction. It's a skill with duck unders that achieved through repetition without repetition. 😊
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