Folk wrestling

A folk wrestling style is any traditional style of wrestling, which may or may not be codified as a modern sport. Most cultures have developed regional forms of grappling.

Europe

British Isles

Traditionally wrestling has two main centers in Great Britain: the West Country, where the Devon and Cornwall styles were developed, and in the Northern counties, the home of the Cumberland and Westmorland styles.

North Country styles

West Country styles

Ireland

Nordic countries

Continental Europe

Western Europe
Southern Europe
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe

Asia

Wrestlers on the traditional Naadam festival in Mongolia, near Ulan Bator
Yağlı güreş (Turkish oil wrestling) tournament in Istanbul
Khuresh (Tuvan wrestling)

Central Asia

Mongolian wrestling

Turkic wrestling

East Asia

China

Other countries

Western Asia / Middle East

South Asia

Main article: Indian wrestling

Southeast Asia

Americas

Africa

Oceania

Footnotes

  1. APARIŢIA ŞI DEZVOLTAREA LUPTELOR PE TERITORIUL ROMÂNIEI, frl.ro (Romanian)
  2. The Alternative Olympics by Ron Gluckman (Mongolia)
  3. "Shaking Hands: Tigel Wrestling in Ethiopia". Wrestlingroots.org. Retrieved 3/11/12. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. David Malo (1903). Hawaiian antiquities (Moolelo Hawaii). Hawaiian gazette co., ltd. p. 96. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  5. "Coral Reef and Assessment Monitoring Program". University of Hawaii. Retrieved 2011-10-06.

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