Exploring our common grappling heritage

Episode 3: Killing Sharks in the Open Sea: Vietnamese Đấu Vật

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

Episode 2: Beyond the End of the World: Yaghan and Selk’Nam Wrestling of Tierra del Fuego

The Yaghan are - were - the southernmost people in the world; a scattered group of nomadic hunters living on the sub-antarctic...

The Kimura Traps of Angkor

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

The Podcast

Exploring our common grappling heritage by diving into the history, culture, roots, and ultimate fate of various folk-wrestling styles around the world...

Episode 5: By Law Shall Land Be Built: Icelandic Glíma

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

Why no BJJ, judo, sambo, or Greco-Roman on the folk wrestling map?