Exploring our common grappling heritage

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...

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

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...

An ongoing project to reconstruct and promote the Irish wrestling style of Collar and Elbow.

Lavell Marshall is a world champion and 5-time US national champion in Shuai Jiao, a form of Chinese jacket wrestling. For the...