Exploring our common grappling heritage

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

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

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

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...

The Chipewyan (Dënesųłı̨né), a First Nations people of northern Canada, historically had a deeply ingrained - and in many ways highly unique...

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