The airplane spin is a high amplitude and altitude women’s wrestling move, which is highly spectacular and which is meant to hurt the victim by dazing her. The airplane spin requires a great deal of strength and balance on the part of the attacker as she needs to take the entire weight of her victim onto her shoulder and spin her around without losing balance.

The attacker sets the victim up for the hold by slamming and knocking her around a little to het her dizzy and winded. She then grabs hold of one of the victim’s wrists, pulls her arm up and over her shoulder while squatting down about halfway, and getting her other arm through between the victim’s legs. She starts to lift, gradually slipping her victim onto her shoulder. When the attacker stands up all the way, the victim stretches out her arms and the attacker starts spinning around. After a few revolutions, she stops and deposits the victim onto the mat either by dropping her down face first (which I personally find a little disappointing) or by flipping her over and slamming her down through a high impact driver/ body-slam.

Possible escape: because the Airplane spin is a move which involves delicate balance, the cooperation of the victim is required. The victim can unbalance the attacker relatively easily, although in that case she should probably prepare herself for a pretty rough landing.

Rating: the Airplane Spin is rather efficient at what it’s supposed to achieve. It will daze the victim alright, the only problem is it will daze the attacker too, and it will probably take a lot more juice out of the attacker than the victim. Due to its spectacular nature though, it is used quite frequently in professional female wrestling.