Exploring our common grappling heritage

The Maps

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

In the western world, our conceptions of Vietnam are often limited to the Vietnam War - that prolonged and devastating conflict in...

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

Over the course of human history, countless little facets of our collective cultural heritage have been lost as empires have risen and...

The Caucasus mountains, a 750-mile-long chain of rock and ice stretching between the Black and Caspian seas, have traditionally been regarded as...

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