The snap suplex is among the most frequently used throws in women’s wrestling. It is among the few moves where the attacker can use her opponent’s bathing suit against her. Despite its frequent nature, the suplex remains among the most spectacular, high amplitude moves.

The attacker takes her opponent’s neck under her left arm in a front headlock. She then reaches under her opponent’s bathing suit with her left hand (she can slip her fingers under it at the leg-hole) and pulls upward on it while pushing down on the neck and falling backward in the same time. The victim is hoisted high up in the air and she comes crashing down on her back. The goal of the snap suplex is to drive the air out of the victim and to stun her, setting her up for a finisher (a submission hold or a pin). The suplex has been used as a finisher in itself. Following its execution, the attacker can flip on top of her winded victim in almost one fluid motion.

Several variants of the suplex exist.

Possible escape: the defender can hook her leg around her opponent’s leg while still standing, thus preventing her from lifting her bottom up. She can also reverse it into a small package this way. In order to deny the grip on the bathing suit, the defender can wear a slippery-shiny nylon lycra unitard, in which case the attacker can’t grab hold of anything on her waist area. Resourceful attackers have been known to reach between the legs in such cases though and to secure a lifting grip on the crotch area.

Rating: the snap suplex is extremely spectacular, and it is efficient at what it’s supposed to achieve too. Provided she fails to counter the move, the victim will almost certainly become a sure mark for a pin.