The spinning high crossbody is another example of a more advanced ladies wrestling move. The move is basically a modification of the high crossbody block, but it takes things much-much further skill-wise. The result is a highly spectacular, high-impact move which just begs to be used as a finisher.

The move starts out the same way a cross body-block does: the attacker throws the victim into the ropes and she bounces off the opposite side of the ring too to gather momentum. She then jumps up and hits the victim's upper body as her own body gets into a position parallel with the ring floor. Instead of just hitting the victim though and knocking her off her feet, then landing across her chest, the attacker spins around in the air at the moment of the impact. Some, like Velvet McIntyre in the illustration below, have perfected the move, so they can execute a 360 and land in the same position they would have in a simple crossbody block. Others twist just 180 degrees or only 90. In case of a 90 degree spin, the attacker lands on top of her victim facing towards her feet, in a perfect position to execute the pin, with or without hooking the leg(s).

Possible escape: the victim can duck under her opponent's body to let her fall to the floor without hitting her mark.

Rating: as far as we here at women-wrestling.org are concerned, the Spinning high crossbody is one of the most impressive and spectacular ladies' wrestling moves. It seems to be done a lot in joshi puroresu, but some US lady wrestlers have mastered it as well. The move is seldom used as a finisher, despite the fact that it would make an excellent one.