Your video guide to freestyle wrestling

Iowa City will host the USA Wrestling Olympic Wrestling Team Trials on April 21-22 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Hundreds of the nation's best wrestlers in men's and women's freestyle and Greco-Roman will compete for spots on the U.S. Olympic Team to represent the country at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England.

University of Iowa volunteer assistant Kurt Backes and the Hawkeyes' strength and conditioning coach Danny Song covered the basics of freestyle wrestling Monday, April 2 with The Gazette-KCRG photographer Brian Ray. As you can see there are differences to traditional or folkstyle wrestling fans are exposed to in prep and college wrestling.

Watch the individual segments.

Neutral position

Push out rules

Par Tare position

The Clinch