The Double toed leglock is one of the most basic women’s wrestling holds. Watch a ladies’ professional wrestling bout and you’ll probably see this hold applied within the first minute of action. The double toed leglock would probably qualify as a submission hold because it is meant to cause pain for the victim, but it is mostly used to immobilize and to frustrate.

The victim is on her stomach, on the mat or ring floor. The attacker picks up both her legs, and crosses them, while in the same time bending them at the knee. She then secures the locked legs somehow, and continues to push down on them. Because the attacker can free up both her hands while keeping the double toed leglock secured with her knee or crotch, she has the option to combine it with another hold like a chinlock or a camel clutch. By locking the victim’s arms, the attacker can deny her opponent any possibility of escape. When combined with other holds, the efficiency of the double toed leglock can be doubled.

The double toed leglock can be turned into an overhead bow and arrow too.

Possible escape: because both her arms are left free, the victim can use them to crawl to the ropes and to get a rope-break. If her arms are locked too, she will just have to ride the hold out, or submit I suppose.

Rating: the double toed leglock is not a really efficient submission hold, although it is based on putting pressure on the victim’s knee joints, and on stretching the calf muscles. It is more of a transition hold, used as a precursor to a more intricate submission hold, like an overhead double toed leglock bow and arrow or a double toed leglock/camel clutch combination.

Courtesy of sleeperkidsworld.com