'Wrestling for Lovers' class shows partners how to grapple for romance
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Jiu Jitsu won’t just keep you safe from muggers amid the Big Apple’s surging crime wave — it may also help spice up your love life.
Jiu-jitsu coach LT Hawk, 43, and Brooklyn-based professional dominatrix Lola Jean, 33, have combined their two disciplines into a class for couples called “Wrestling for Lovers,” which features modified martial arts moves fit for the wrestling mat or the bedroom.
“I can push [my partner] down and choke [him] – and we’re both laughing,” one attendee, Trixie, 41, told the New York Post of the kinky course, which has been moved online due to monkeypox.
“You’re fighting, but you’re playing. Then you realize ‘I’m also holding [them] and touching [them].’ I’ll have him in a chokehold and I’ll think, ‘Aw, I love [him]’ and I’ll give him a little kiss.’
The class combines techniques from jiu jitsu, submission wrestling, catch wrestling and other disciplines.
In one lesson, Hawk and Jean show how jiu-jitsu’s classic “seatbelt” grip — used earlier this month by MMA fighter Ro Malabanan to subdue an assailant who sucker-punched an older construction worker in Soho — can be used by lovers to restrain their partners in limb-bondage, or to gracefully maneuver their partner from a top to bottom position.
Unlike grappling sports seen in a gym or on television, Jean said their methods are “less about brute force” — instead, the pair encourage couples to shift between dominant and submissive positions.
“We want to get people in both aggressive and defensive positions [during a session]. It’s not about you crushing or smashing someone, it’s about experiencing that intimacy of aggression,” explained Hawk.
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