AKSHAY KUMAR WRESTLER

Bollywood action star Akshay Kumar has ’adopted’ six wrestlers, who are economically backward, in a bid to popularise the sport, an official said Wednesday.”Akshay’s decision came days before the 10th All India Wrestling Championship opens here Feb 1. Participants and lovers of this sport from all over India are expected to gather here,” said Sanjay Nirupam, Congress spokesman in Maharashtra and organiser of the event.
“Last year, when Akshay attended the programme, he had publicly expressed a desire to adopt a few wrestlers to encourage more to take up the ancient Indian sport. We are happy that he has honoured the commitment,” Nirupam told.Nirupam introduced six of the year’s best wrestlers to Akshay and the star readily accepted the proposal. The wrestlers are – Bipin Varma, Ajay Yadav, Kallu Yadav, Gopal Yadav (all from Mumbai), Amol Patil (Jalgaon) and Ranjeet Nalawade (Kolhapur).
Nirupam said that the ’adoption’ means that Akshay will sponsor their diet for the next five years.”Wrestlers usually hail from economically backward sections and are unable to afford the specialised diet to excel in the challenging sport. Akshay’s sponsorship will go a long way in helping these six wrestlers confidently tackle domestic and international challenges, including the next Olympics – our prime target,” Nirupam explained.
While Akshay is a self-confessed fitness freak and martial arts lover, his father Hari Om Bhatia was an accomplished wrester from Punjab.Akshay had committed last year that he would bear the costs – “whatever be the amount” – of the professional needs of the selected wrestlers and ensure that their career did not run aground due to financial constraints.The Wrestling Championship is organised by Maharashtra Wrestling Association (MWA) and will see the participation of a few women wrestlers too. The event will be held at the Andheri Sports Complex here.

How to Understand Wrestling Holds

1- Understand the clinch. The clinch is one of the most loved and hated holds in wrestling and grappling sports. A clinch generally involves one wrestler holding his opponent in a dominant position while both wrestlers are still standing. The clinch comes in familiar forms like the bear hug and high clinch and more specialized forms such as the overhook and pinch grip clinch that are used in Greco-Roman wrestling.
2- Learn the pinning hold. Pinning holds are used to keep an opponent in place on the ground until a better move or position can be attained. There are many different kinds of pinning holds from different wrestling and grappling arts. In certain wrestling sports such as judo, maintaining a pinning hold on an opponent for a certain amount of time constitutes a win.
3- Watch for submission and pain compliance holds. Submission holds constitute the fight or match ending moves in a number of wrestling sports. There are hundreds of pain compliance holds that vary in form from joint and bone locks and pressure application to chokes. Wrestlers and martial artists constantly maneuver to get their opponent locked into a submission hold to win the fight. So check out pinning holds to better understand wrestling holds.
4- Know the common holds. There are a few holds that are used or attempted in almost every fighting match that incorporates wrestling holds. Among these common holds are the triangle choke, the arm bar, the shoulder wrench, the guillotine choke, the Achilles lock and the wrist lock. Watch wrestling matches to identify the common holds in order to better understand wrestling holds in general.