Jacket wrestling

Jacket wrestling is a form of wrestling and one of the oldest form of sports that has been practiced in both Europe and Asia going back many centuries. It generally involves two contestants wearing jackets and belts attempting to take each other down in an attempt to pin their opponent. The style of combat is typified by a lack of groundfighting, due to the rules often causing an opponent to lose if they touch the ground with something other than their feet. The method of combat has also been referred to as "belt-and-jacket wrestling", for its common use of a belt or sash in addition to or instead of a jacket.

A Shuai jiao match in China
Za-vorotok folk wrestling, a single-handed variant of the sport, practised by the Slavic peoples

The two most popular contested styles of jacket wrestling today are Judo and Sambo.

History

Encyclopædia Britannica has stated that, "The three basic types of wrestling contest are the belt-and-jacket, catch-hold, and loose styles, all of which appear to have originated in antiquity. Belt-and-jacket styles of wrestling are those in which the clothing of the wrestlers provides the principal means of taking a grip on the opponent."[1]

Thomas A. Green and Joseph R. Svinth stated in 2010 that, it has been recorded as a method of combat as early as the Middle Ages.[2] Scot Beekman stated in 2006 that, Jacket wrestling became especially popular in Britain, where different regions developed their own forms of jacket wrestling rules and combat.[3]

See also

References
  1. "belt-and-jacket wrestling". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  2. Thomas A. Green and Joseph R. Svinth (2010). Martial Arts of the World: Regions and individual arts. ABC-CLIO. p. 224. ISBN 9781598842432. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  3. Scott Beekman (2006). Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 5. ISBN 9780275984014. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
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