Exploring our common grappling heritage

Episode 7: Great Giants of the Middle World: Sakha Khapsagai

The Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, is the coldest place on Earth outside of Antarctica. A 3-million-km2 expanse of unforgiving taiga...

When I first released the “Grappling Around the World” map that details 74 folk-wrestling styles on 6 continents, one question that kept...

Whereas the podcast focuses on the history and culture of folk-wrestling specifically, these maps take a wider look at the grappling arts...

The region of the world stretching from Mexico to Costa Rica - traditionally referred to as “Mesoamerica” - was, in its pre-Columbian...

The Yaghan are - were - the southernmost people in the world; a scattered group of nomadic hunters living on the sub-antarctic...

As the modern revival of the Irish national wrestling style continues, it’s time to lay old myths to rest.