The rowboat is an extremely peculiar female wrestling move. It is a tag-team maneuver, and in order for it to be performed, all 4 wrestlerettes need to be in the ring, which is kind of illegal. The move has two attackers and two victims. The two victims are on their backs with their legs towards each other. The two attackers then pick both victims’ legs up and pull them closer to one another so that their bottoms almost touch while holding their legs straight up. Each of the two attackers then grabs hold of one of each victim’s legs. They then sit back down holding on to the legs, and pulling them apart like paddles in a rowboat. They then repeat the motion while sitting.

The move obviously requires cooperation from the victims, and it’s supposed to target the hamstrings to weaken them, thus setting up the victims for a subsequent hold.

Besides the damage it’s supposed to inflict, the move is also meant to humiliate.

Possible escape: when the attackers pull their legs apart, the victims can sit up, grab hold of each-other’s hands and pull themselves up and out of the hold.

Rating: rather than being a hold that’s meant to achieve any sort of damage, the rowboat is a humiliation maneuver. The humiliation factor stems from the putting of both opponents into a compromising position at the same time.