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Project Collar and Elbow

Project Collar and Elbow

An ongoing project to reconstruct and promote the Irish wrestling style of Collar and Elbow.

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A Phone Call to the Inner Mongolian Steppe

A Phone Call to the Inner Mongolian Steppe

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

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Episode 7: Great Giants of the Middle World: Sakha Khapsagai

Episode 7: Great Giants of the Middle World: Sakha Khapsagai

The Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, is the coldest place on Earth outside of Antarctica. A 3-million-km2 expanse of unforgiving taiga...

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

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...

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Episode 1.5: Irish Collar and Elbow Remastered

Episode 1.5: Irish Collar and Elbow Remastered

As the modern revival of the Irish national wrestling style continues, it’s time to lay old myths to rest.

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

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...

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