Edited sentence: He also was the first "360" fighter, whose main special move, a grappling move named the Spinning Piledriver, required spinning the joystick in nearly 360 degrees and pressing a punch button.Many feel that Zangief is handicapped due to his huge frame and lack of agility, but in the hands of a master, he can be a powerful adversary since Zangief "experts" are few and far between.Practicing this maneuver would eventually pay off, since, in the first few versions of Street Fighter 2, the Spinning Piledriver is the most powerful move in the game for any character.The character is revolutionary in the fact that his appearance in Street Fighter 2 marks the first time a player could control a predominate grappler in a fighting game.The timing of this move is tricky, and often times it has to be chained with another attack to get it to work properly.Zangief is a Pro Wrestler, who also practiced the martial arts of Sambo and Judo