Episode 1.5: Irish Collar and Elbow Remastered
read moreAs the modern revival of the Irish national wrestling style continues, it’s time to lay old myths to rest.To mark the 2-year anniversary of The Hero with a Thousand Holds, ...
Exploring our common grappling heritage by diving into the history, culture, roots, and ultimate fate of various folk-wrestling styles around the world - everywhere from the storm-scarred shores of Tierra del Fuego to the steppes of Mongolia to the jagged peaks of the Caucasus mountains.
read moreAs the modern revival of the Irish national wrestling style continues, it’s time to lay old myths to rest.To mark the 2-year anniversary of The Hero with a Thousand Holds, ...
read moreLavell Marshall is a world champion and 5-time US national champion in Shuai Jiao, a form of Chinese jacket wrestling. For the past year, he’s been living in the Inner ...
read moreThe region of the world stretching from Mexico to Costa Rica – traditionally referred to as “Mesoamerica” – was, in its pre-Columbian heyday, home to empires that mapped time, carved ...
read moreOne of the last major landmasses to be settled by human beings, Iceland is nowadays a thriving modern nation that boasts a highly educated populace and one of the highest ...
read moreThe Caucasus mountains, a 750-mile-long chain of rock and ice stretching between the Black and Caspian seas, have traditionally been regarded as one of the great cultural boundaries between Europe ...
read moreThe traditional wrestling of Cambodia, Bok Cham Bab, has a history stretching back to the days when the Khmer Empire was the undisputed lord and master of the Southeast Asian ...
read moreIn the western world, our conceptions of Vietnam are often limited to the Vietnam War – that prolonged and devastating conflict in the mid-20th century that resulted in the deaths ...
read moreThe Chipewyan (Denésoliné), a First Nations people of northern Canada, historically had a deeply ingrained – and in many ways highly unique – wrestling tradition that was remarked upon by ...
read moreThe Yaghan are - were - the southernmost people in the world; a scattered group of nomadic hunters living on the sub-antarctic inlets and islands of Tierra del Fuego. Yet ...
read moreThe first in a series of podcasts looking at some of the obscure folk-wrestling styles from around the world. This one explores the ancient and now sadly forgotten art of ...