I found this article in an old magazine - might be of interest here - www.geocities.com/michael...index.html
Mike
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Neo-Pankratium in 1898
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Mike
Welcome to the forum. I am afraid to say that the link above has been cut short by either ezboard or your system, could you post it agian so we can take a look, it would be interesting to read the details you have taken the time to post. Once again welcome aboard. Is pankration something you are specifically interested in? All the best Graham |
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Posts: 6 (04/01/03 03:03:08) |
Graham,
sorry - hope this works - www.geocities.com/michael...index.html I'm a bit interested in Pankration, more in modern NHB but the article is pretty funky. Mike |
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Posts: 413 (04/01/03 03:49:17) |
Mike
Thanks for that, interesting read. Do you know if this was the forebear to the greco roman wrestling so prevalient in the US? I think that it has a different name though and looks more like wrestling these days ... at least I haven't seen people punching one another? All the best Graham |
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Posts: 6 (04/01/03 04:31:10) |
Graham,
as far as I know Greco-Roman wrestling was started in France sometime in the mid-late 1800s. It was supposed to be a duplicate of the ancient Olympic "standing" style - it was a reconstruction like Neo-Pancratium. The Greeks had at least two styles of wrestling, in one the aim was to throw the other guy from a standing start (no below-the-waist holds or leg/hip throws allowed) and the other one was ground-wrestling to a pin-fall. There were plenty of styles practiced in the US during the 1800s - Irish collar-and-elbow, Cumberland/Westmoreland, etc. The style the Neo-Pancratium guys were using was Catch-hold which is also called Catch-as-catch-can, originally from Lancashire in England. This was very popular in the US. However, US College wrestling has always been in the Greco-Roman style (also the only one in the modern Olympics, unless you count Judo.) Nowadays, NHB fighting borrows quite a lot of moves from Catch, as well as Jujutsu, etc. and also uses kicks and punches. There are lots of schools that teach Pancration as well. Mike |
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