The arm moves in wrestling include the arm breakers, arm drags, over the shoulder arm drags, arm swings, etc. The arm bar take down is another of the moves in wrestling. The arm bar attacks by forcing the arm of the opponent downward.
The challenger feels the pain about the shoulder area and the assailant then grips the arms extending them lengthwise. The shoulder is eventually forced to the mat. This is a pin in most instances unless the wrestler can wriggle his/her way out of the hold.
The arm breakers include slamming of the arms, typically on an area of the opponent’s body where it will hurt. Usually the pin ends with the scissors, where the wrestler’s legs are crossed over the challengers body, holding his/her shoulders down to the mat.
The various moves, manoeuvres and holds appear to be painful in the ring, but the fact is that these wrestling moves are all choreographed, that is, they are just a theatrical show to get your attention. The actors rehearse their scenes long before they get into the ring and are shown how to send ’signs’ to end the bout whenever should they want to.
The wrestling manoeuvres seem real on television, because the cameras and other distractions, including beautiful models, divert the attention of the viewers. Wrestling is really quite similar to how magicians work. Magicians rehearse their stage act before they go on the stage. There is always a trick or an explanation, yet the magician does his act so professionally and the audience is so distracted, that the magician fools people into believing that he or she is performing the illusion for real.
The ‘arm drags’ involve the assailant getting the opponent in a hook move and then flipping the challenger down onto the mats. Most of the moves are devised by one or the other of the wrestlers and sometimes it may become a popular move and so taken up by others. Two of the older moves are the Gallatin and the Banana Split
The ‘over the shoulder’ move should be called the ‘body slam’ because the opponent throws the challenger over his shoulder, slamming him/her down onto the mat. At one time, this wrestling manoeuvre was probably a ’slammer’, but today it is called the shoulder-arm throw manoeuvre.
The ‘wringer; is another of the arm moves in wrestling which is sometimes known as the spin wrist lock hold. This move is often followed by the Irish Thrash moves, mallet locks, and gouges.
Other arm moves include the arm stretches, arm breakers, arm wringer, arm locks, arm bar and arm scissors. While the arm moves are famous in the ring, there are many new moves today that you would never have heard of when wrestling first began in ancient days. The Amityville Horror is one of wrestling’s more modern moves. Although, I haven’t figured out what this move entails, we are about to look at it together.
From what I can make out the Amityville Horror is just a ploy to persuade people to rent or buy the movie with the same name. The move is listed in the roll of wrestling moves, however, as of yet, no information is available about what this move is all about. Moves are basically marques devised by the wrestlers themselves, so I’m assuming that the wrestler felt he had devised one of the most horrific moves in wrestling and so he called it the Amityville Horror.
Why is it that some moves get loud cheers? Well, it can start when a wrestler in the ring brings in a new manoeuvre and it becomes his signature, popular final manoeuvre in his fights.

