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ALPHABETICAL LIST

Any list of ethnic or folk wrestling styles will be partial, but this is a brief alphabetical list of some styles with verifiable lineages in the physical world before the Internet or video games.
  • Ancient Greek Wrestling, added to 18th Olympiad, 708 BC, as per Hippias of Elis ca. 400 BC.

  • Backhold Wrestling, Evolved in North england and Scotland in the 7th and 8th century.The competitons are currently held from May to October, at Highland and Border Games.

  • Catch-as-catch-can, Mid-nineteenth century US adult wrestling, begins standing.

  • Collar-and-elbow

  • Cornish Wrestling of England uses a jacket.

  • Cumberland wrestling

  • Devonshire wrestling

  • Glima , The national sport of Iceland.Traces it's history to the Vikings and the Norse.

  • Inbuan , The traditional wrestling style of the Mizoram (India) state.

  • Iranian Wrestling , The form of wrestling native to Iran .

  • Lancashire Wrestling , Begins standing, not reliant on clothing.

  • Luta Livre , Brazilian style of wrestling.

  • Pehlwani /Kushti, wrestling of India .

  • Penjang Gulat, a form of wrestling popular in rural Indonesia .

  • Schwingen, Swiss style wrestling.Is considered to be one of the very old forms of wrestling.

  • Shuaijiao: A form of Mongolian wrestling. where a ground-touch loses[http://www.gluckman.com/Naadam.html .

  • Trinta: Upright wrestling from Moldova. Can also be practiced from the knees. Still practiced in Moldova and Romania.

  • Westmorland wrestling

  • Yağlı_güreş , Turkish "oil wrestling"



ETHNIC COMBAT NO LONGER FOLK WRESTLING


These sports could be considered too popular or formal to still be considered "folk sports".These styles form a part of the international mainstream wrestling.



MISTAKEN FOR FOLK WRESTLING


Some terms or phrases (such as "streetfight" in US English) may refer to unarmed combat but are not really folk sports, with recognized rules as used in competition. A partial list of these might include



REFERENCES


  • ''The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India'' by Joseph S. Alter (1992). ISBN 0520076974



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