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...

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

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

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

The region of the world stretching from Mexico to Costa Rica - traditionally referred to as “Mesoamerica” - was, in its pre-Columbian...

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