The Monkey flip is a high amplitude female wrestling move meant to get the victim onto her back in one of the most spectacular ways. A properly executed monkey flip will not hurt a victim in any way. It’ll just get her onto her back shaking her up a little and setting her up for a subsequent move by the attacker.

The monkey flip begins with the attacker putting both her hands behind the victim’s neck. The attacker then jumps upward and pulling her legs up mid jump, puts her feet onto her opponent’s laps, as close to the lower stomach as possible. She then uses the momentum conferred by her own weight to pull downward on the victim’s neck while pushing forward with her legs. She falls backward onto her back, effectively lifting the victim off her feet and flipping her over onto her back.

A smoothly executed monkey flip is quite a move to behold, although when botched, it can turn out rather ugly too. Make sure you do not hurt your opponent by flipping her onto her head and make sure she does not fall on top of you at the peak of the motion.

Possible escape: while I have seen strong girls fend off a monkey flip simply by digging their feet in and not moving (and subsequently pushing their attacker off onto her back) if the attacker is about the same weight as the defender, the monkey flip is quite impossible to escape.

Rating: like some of the other women’s wrestling throws, the monkey flip is not a move meant to inflict actual damage. It just sets the victim up for something that follows. At what it’s supposed to achieve though (getting the victim onto her back in the middle of the ring), it is extremely efficient.