Talk:Folk wrestling

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The alphabetical listing of Folk Styles of wrestling lists Cumberland wrestling and Westmorland wrestling separately as though they were two distinct separate styles. This is erroneous. There is only one style of wrestling with these names and to this day it is called Cumberland-and-Westmorland-style wrestling. This in spite of the fact that in 1978 British Parliament abolished the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland and in their place created one county - Cumbria. 86.31.193.211 15:28, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Donald Black In fact, the current president of the Cumberland & Westmorland Wrestling Society is Roger Robson who arranges a full programme of wrestling every summer in Cumbria, Northumberland and into southern Scotland including the annual Grasmere sports day. You will notice in the article on British Folk Wrestling by Stephen ____? on a link page in the Wikipedia he refers more than once to the style correctly as Cumberland and Westmorland style wrestling. Stephen ____? fails to mention Scottish Backhold wrestling (President: Willie Baxter)who also compete at Grasmere.

Lancashire wrestling is synonymous with Catch-as-catch-can. This should be made clear in your alphabetical listing. (e.g. Catch-as-catch-can see Lancashire wrestling. Lancashire wrestling or catch-as-catch-can   [Or vice versa]) 86.31.193.211 00:45, 8 February 2007 (UTC)Donald Black (donald.black@virgin.net)


 * Donald, why didn't you make the corrections yersel'? Could you supply the website for Scottish Wrestling Bond? Does Inter-Celtic Wrestling Federation have a site?

Ethnic styles no longer considered folk-wrestling
Could Brazillian Jujitsu have ever been considered either an ethnic style 'folk-wrestling' as it was partially derived from either Judo or Jujitsu (depending who you believe)broguht to Brazil by one man (Maeda) and developed predominantly by one family (Gracies)?

Judo, likewise, was never a 'folk' style as it was a codified system from the outset.

Another wrestling style from South Korea called Ssireum should be added to the list of folk or non-folk styles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssireum

Duane - browser

Ju Jutsu
I don't see ju jutsu (besides the Brazilian flavor) listed here. Is it considered a traditional style or modern? Depends on who you ask. Ideas? Dsunlin (talk) 20:29, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

-- There is no one but many styles of Ju Jitsu. Some styles have their roots in Shuai Jiao, e.g. Kito Ryu, Yoshin Ryu, Tekkiguchi Ryu, whereas some might have their roots from folk styles Sumo before they were codified in the 19th century for professional competition purpose. These folk styles Sumo were based on Tang and Song Dynasties Shuai Jiao, which was called Xiang Pu at that time. Sumo is simply the Japanese pronounciation of the Chinese word Xiang Pu 相樸. Noted that Xiang Pu has passed on to these days as many folk styles of wrestling in China.

Karolus 20101015

Chinese Wrestling
I added a few headings for various Chinese wrestlings, which are still practised and compete by China's peasants today.

Karolus 20101015 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.238.129.115 (talk) 19:44, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Amazonian Wrestling
I added Huka-huka, which is already an entry in Wikipedia. Looking actively for other Native American traditions. Kortoso (talk) 00:23, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Is this full list?
Are they any other folk wrestling? Squirus (talk) 17:41, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

oil wrestling in greece
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5912687/Greek-athletes-olive-oil-traditional-wrestling-rivals-hands-rivals-trousers.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:982E:8E00:880:CD4D:6157:4910 (talk) 01:23, 22 December 2019 (UTC)