John Smith teaches his legendary low single | 6x World & Olympic Champion

Learned the “low John single” from our coach in 95’. Our coach taught us pretty good now that I’m watching the OG. I was effective with it.

I learned this in school, never got anyone with it. Recently I got into a brawl with my uncle who was extremely drunk at thanksgiving and tried to punch his sister, I tried to bear hug him, he cleared the hands and swung, so I shot a double and got snapped down, but hit this as I was going down to my knees. This is legit guys and you never know when it will be useful.

What a legend. Not one Russian ever beat him.

This is an example of why YT is awesome, being able to get a video from a guy of this stature. Fantastic.

My all time favorite!! My daughter won junior wrestling 🤼‍♀️ championship and was honored to take a picture, plaque, gold medal in hand with the legend himself #johnsmith

6x world champion wrestler with normal ears. I’m listening.

Great teaching. I'll never forget taking a shot in a tournament in the 8th grade and I was too high and my opponent knee me DEAD in the eye. His freaking knee socked me right in the eye socket and I fell back in a daze. The match wasn't stopped and I had to keep wrestling but by the end of the round, I could feel the weight of my black eye hanging down. Needless to say, I didn't see out of that eye for over a week. Worst black eye that I ever had. I lost that match to points but took silver in the tournament.

Coach Smith is so old school and so awesome I love his breakdown of the takedown he's truly an amazing teacher and coach

This is gold! Thank you 🙏

One of my favorite wrestlers! It's also great to see how the vertical alignment between shoulder and knee is maintained at low level upon attack!

Meeting this man in person and being able to have and share a small experience as this, was a memory I will never forget.. seeing this brought me back 12+ years ago, thank you coach smith from a former High Altitude wrestler

This was one of my favorite moves, I typically did it from a collar tie since I could just level change under the tie. Great video!

EVERYTHING in this demonstration, is EXACTLY how my coach taught me my low single back in high school. Jason Allen, used to be an athlete under John Smith, and came to coach my school in the early 2000’s. To this day, It has been engrained in me, and even at 36, I still hit this move with complete effectiveness. It turned my whole takedown offense around back then, and even when I still go compete or coaching kids today, this move STILL works beautifully.

Man I wish I had this video back when I was wrestling. I studied the hell out of John's matches on youtube to learn to low single. Definitely my favorite wrestler of all time.

My high school wrestling team was struggling.. we all went to a clinic with John and learned, then relentlessly riled this single... it completely transformed us.

I’m 73 years old. I can do this mentally, but physically, it’s a non-starter. Good stuff though!!!

This is why it's called the John Smith Low Single!!! That Master At Work!!! Beautiful!!

Thank you John,! Love hearing you teach.

I love this takedown for BJJ, because it’s low risk and you can shoot it before they get grips to slow you down.

Always listen when the legends speak on their trade! Great share, thank you.