Exploring our common grappling heritage

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...

On the Podcast page, you can stream every episode or download them in MP3 format and listen later. It’s also available on...

The traditional wrestling of Cambodia, Bok Cham Bab, has a history stretching back to the days when the Khmer Empire was the...

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

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...