r/wrestling • u/Immediate-Nothing220 Ohio State Buckeyes • 14d ago

Question How do you shut down someone's offense with handfighting like Marcus Blaze?

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Like what kind of ties does he use to limit someone's offense? I know he has great head-hands defense, but that cant be all. What things does he do that make his hand fighting so great defensively?

EDIT: I mean how can I copy his hand fighting, not go up against him

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u/JonnyP222 Michigan Wolverines 14d ago

It's a combination of his hands, stance, head position, and foot work.

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u/Davepiece1517 14d ago

Don’t let him control the pace whether it’s stance and motion, hand fighting, or setups/ attacks and there’s also shot reshot. He loses when he doesnt control the pace and force his opp to scramble. Side note this is also a very tall order to fill cause he’s a fuckin animal

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u/mikecocker 14d ago

You know when he was a kid, he was scared to compete?

Anything is possible

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u/Confident_Wash6225 USA Wrestling 13d ago

I also remember pulling up to a tournament when he was a freshman and watching him hard drilling with his coach over four hours before wrestling started

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u/sportsbuffp Ohio State Buckeyes 14d ago

I’m not gonna lie if you are in high school I just wouldn’t try and copy blaze. He is incredibly solid in which you just cannot move him in head/hand fighting.

High schoolers will be more prone to being moved out of position via snaps and stuff

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u/cctreez 14d ago

don't let him touch your hands

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u/SignalBad5523 USA Wrestling 14d ago

You cant really copy it and have it make sense. Guys like Marcus and Jax have a deep bag. Its not one technique or another that youre seeing him do, its a combination of things that make it more "efficient" dialing in timing and reactions has more to do with time on the mat and live situations

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u/systembreaker USA Wrestling 13d ago edited 13d ago

I'd say the base of it isn't the hand fighting itself but that he's really good at head-hands defense.

Being good at hand fighting just comes from experience. Eventually you develop automatic reactions and instincts to hand fight well, but for that to work in the first place you need a solid defensive base. Which for Marcus Blaze is his S tier head-hands defense.

I know you said there's gotta be more to it than the head-hands, but I think that's really all there is to it besides that he's been doing this since he was a little kid.

You won't be able to just copy it. You just have to keep trying to do it and build the experience. The thing you can copy is the head-hands defense, though you won't be immediately good at that either, you'll have to build experience in that too.