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A Phone Call to the Inner Mongolian Steppe
Lavell Marshall is a world champion and 5-time US national champion in Shuai Jiao, a form of Chinese jacket wrestling. For the...
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Why no BJJ, judo, sambo, or Greco-Roman on the folk wrestling map?
When I first released the “Grappling Around the World” map that details 74 folk-wrestling styles on 6 continents, one question that kept...
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Episode 6: The Roar of the Rain: Ritualized Jaguar Combat in Guerrero, Mexico
The region of the world stretching from Mexico to Costa Rica - traditionally referred to as “Mesoamerica” - was, in its pre-Columbian...
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Project Collar and Elbow
An ongoing project to reconstruct and promote the Irish wrestling style of Collar and Elbow.
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Chipewyan Wrestling: A Grappling Isolate?
The Chipewyan (Dënesųłı̨né), a First Nations people of northern Canada, historically had a deeply ingrained - and in many ways highly unique...
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