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Click here to see the video: Wrestling Moves: Ankle-to-Arm Breakdown

Ralph Napolitano: Many times in wrestling, our opponent doesn't cooperate with the moves that we want to try at him, so we have to go one move to the next move. The next breakdown that we're going to go over, ties in both breakdowns that we went over. We call this breakdown ankles to arms and this is why we call it ankles to arms.

I'm going to start by trying to break down Humberto's base by using my tight waist bar ankle, but as I'm going, he doesn't want to give it up to me, he's going to be strong on his arms. So as I'm driving forward, all his weight is going to be on his arms, so right then is when I change to the near arm chop, so we go ankles to arms.

This is what it looks like. I start off by coming here, I'm driving forward with everything I'm supposed to be doing, but he's not giving it to me, so then I do a change, I go from here to here and I drive him forward again and now that's my ankles-to-arms breakdown. So what I did, I just incorporated two moves, I went from one move to the other, still breaking him down.