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We don’t make players enumerate what feats of athletic and acrobatic prowess they have practiced, we just sail by that, for all manner of stuff that requires tons of practice and/or training. I’m not gonna worry about how much training something requires irl when determining how to adjudicate it in game.
I do, however, feel that there is a big difference between chucking a halfling over a pit, and some kind of precise and quickly executed move in combat. That's where the training does come in. (Although we don't simulate the practice of casting a spell, we also restrict its use to spellcasting classes. Right?)
I would allow anybody to throw a halfling over a pit out of combat (up to whatever threshold one considers gonzo) as a regular thing, but a combat maneuver would be something that has to be "trained" in some sense, such as a Battlemaster maneuver, or a feature of a class that does stuff like this. Or maybe it's even a Feat that both parties have to take. I definitely would not put such a thing in the same category as Shove and Grapple.