this is kind of interesting in case anyone hasn't seen it. At the time Akram was billed as the great gama's nephew and was considered a mean motor scooter, i'm not sure of the truth of the claim, but he was trained by gama. He insisted on shooting with inoki and as kushti/pehlwani has no submission holds, was caught with a double wristlock and had his arm well broken.
i should add, that modern kushti is mostly bereft of submissions, the old style suppodely contained some.
As a child i had a cousin who'd perform a wai kru before he went to the bathroom, we'd never even heard of muay thai in those dim dark days, BTW. He called it " making plans", and sometimes his ritual would last too long and there'd be an "accident", his mother hated his penchant for "making plans" and attempted many methods to put a stop to it, but he held to the making of plans like grim death
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Indeed. That's kushti. There's a large tournament in texas that's called the dungal, that was started by a pakastani cat. Originally they only had kushti, but now it's "katy bar the door"
The guy that wrote the article i posted, actually lived with and trained with the only remaining family to carry on varamushti. He's an interesting Australian cat who traveled the world in pursuit of obscure martial arts. In addition to the varamushti, he also studied silat in Indonesia and won a world title in it, was also one of the first dozen gringos to get a black belt in bjj. In addition to all that, he founded "Blitz", Australia's largest martial arts magazine, definitely has a bit of sir richard burton in him.
By far the most interesting indian style is vajramushti, in which is an "all in" style where they wear brass knuckles on the right hand, but otherwise greatly resembles modern MMA. The infamous 'indian death lock" originates in this style and was so named because the guy that secured it then cracked his immobile adversary at the base of the skull with the knuckleduster. Life was cheap there.
That looks like British Wrestler/trainer/promoter, Orig Williams as referee.
this is kind of interesting in case anyone hasn't seen it. At the time Akram was billed as the great gama's nephew and was considered a mean motor scooter, i'm not sure of the truth of the claim, but he was trained by gama. He insisted on shooting with inoki and as kushti/pehlwani has no submission holds, was caught with a double wristlock and had his arm well broken.
i should add, that modern kushti is mostly bereft of submissions, the old style suppodely contained some.
As a child i had a cousin who'd perform a wai kru before he went to the bathroom, we'd never even heard of muay thai in those dim dark days, BTW. He called it " making plans", and sometimes his ritual would last too long and there'd be an "accident", his mother hated his penchant for "making plans" and attempted many methods to put a stop to it, but he held to the making of plans like grim death
The ceremonies before a match seem similar in some ways to Thai Boxing
Highly recommend to everyone: The Science of Wrestling, Vol. I, by Patwardhan, Gangadhar Rao Ganesh. This amazing book is available online, and good news the download is absolutely FREE, https://archive.org/
Indeed. That's kushti. There's a large tournament in texas that's called the dungal, that was started by a pakastani cat. Originally they only had kushti, but now it's "katy bar the door"
Here in the UK some Sikh festivals still have wrestling every summer
The guy that wrote the article i posted, actually lived with and trained with the only remaining family to carry on varamushti. He's an interesting Australian cat who traveled the world in pursuit of obscure martial arts. In addition to the varamushti, he also studied silat in Indonesia and won a world title in it, was also one of the first dozen gringos to get a black belt in bjj. In addition to all that, he founded "Blitz", Australia's largest martial arts magazine, definitely has a bit of sir richard burton in him.
Kushti is very popular, which is also contested in a dirt pit, other than the pit, there’s little else similar
Varamushti is still popular in India today but with non lethal knuckledusters
By far the most interesting indian style is vajramushti, in which is an "all in" style where they wear brass knuckles on the right hand, but otherwise greatly resembles modern MMA. The infamous 'indian death lock" originates in this style and was so named because the guy that secured it then cracked his immobile adversary at the base of the skull with the knuckleduster. Life was cheap there.