Exploring our common grappling heritage

Is it possible to revive a dead folk-wrestling style?

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

One of the last major landmasses to be settled by human beings, Iceland is nowadays a thriving modern nation that boasts a...

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

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

The first in a series of podcasts looking at some of the obscure folk-wrestling styles from around the world. This one explores...

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