Exploring our common grappling heritage

Episode 6: The Roar of the Rain: Ritualized Jaguar Combat in Guerrero, Mexico

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

Lavell Marshall is a world champion and 5-time US national champion in Shuai Jiao, a form of Chinese jacket wrestling. For the...

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

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

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...