The guys are joined by JJ Jones to talk about the incredible tradition of sumo.
Music By Josh Kasen
Twitter: @ArchaicWrestle
5 Mar 2025
Unstoppable (2024) - Ep14 - Archaic Wrestling
Sasha and Evan review the lasted wrestling film to hit the big screen!
https://wrestlinganalysis.home.blog/2023/11/28/market-competition-and-why-i-think-streaming-wars-are-bad-for-fans/
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter: @ArchaicWrestle
14 Sept 2024
Let's Fix Greco - Ep13 - Archaic Wrestling
Evan and Sasha recap the Olympics, check in with Stanford Wrestling, get some pointers from Amit Elor, and completely solve all the issues with Greco.
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter: @ArchaicWrestle
ArchaicWrestling.com
12 Jul 2024
Judo - Ep12 - Archaic Wrestling
Sasha and Evan connect with Nijel to explore this not so ancient martial art and interrogate the connections with wrestling...
Judo History (https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/virtual/judo/judo01.html#:~:text=Judo%20is%20Rooted%20in%20Sumo,of%20jujutsu%20lie%20in%20sumo.)
Kano Jigoro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%C5%8D_Jigor%C5%8D)
Kodokan History (https://kdkjudo.org/en/history/)
Rules (https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/judo-101-olympic-rules-regulations-and-scoring)
Judo and the Process of Nation Building in Japan (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13854046.2012.743701?needAccess=true)
The Budokwai (https://budokwai.co.uk/history)
Olympic History (https://www.ijf.org/history/from-martial-art-to-olympic-sport/1129)
Understanding Leg Grab Change (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdbmB2_DO6o)
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter: @ArchaicWrestle
ArchaicWrestling@gmail.com
15 Mar 2024
Cornish Wrestling - Ep11 - Archaic Wrestling
The boys check in with the hardy history of the historic men of Cornwall and their notorious wrestling culture. From wrestling Celtic giants during the Roman conquest to the humble communities still keeping the tradition alive today...
Persistence of Difference: A history of Cornish Wrestling (https://www.proquest.com/openview/3faa1bdb102341761e124816cf35bf6b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=51922&diss=y)
Cornish Wrestling in California (https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MU18791210.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------)
The Art of Cornish Wrestling (https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Art_of_Cornish_Wrestling_by_Brian_H.html?id=t67fYgEACAAJ)
Cornish Wrestling Championships (1928) (https://youtu.be/Pl9koN0Afto?si=YqXRP6WB0q2xLwyW)
Cornish Wrestling Today (https://youtu.be/8xzW30VsRFE?si=pM0qXo347c_LYBr9)
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter: @ArchaicWrestle
ArchaicWrestling@gmail.com
12 Jan 2024
Pseudoscience in Wrestling - Ep10 - Archaic Wrestling
**DO NOT UTILIZE THE INFOMATION IN THIS CONTENT AS MEDICAL ADVICE**
Sasha and Evan are joined by @Rhino184 to take on an ever topical subject. Athletes are willing to try a lot to gain an edge in competition. Sometimes this leads to a bit of snake oil seeping under the mat...
(Technical and personal difficulties kept this Ep from being released in a timely manner.)
Grounding (https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/earthing-update/)
Saunas (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025619618302751)
Catch Your Breath (https://journals.lww.com/acsm-tj/fulltext/2019/02150/effects_of_two_different_recovery_postures_during.1.aspx)
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter: @ArchaicWrestle
ArchaicWrestling@gmail.com
27 Oct 2023
Huka Huka (Wrestling in the Amazon) - Ep9 - Archaic Wrestling
The guys learn what they can about one of the most obscure folkstyles in the world.
Best Footage (https://youtu.be/hz2HQmVbmh8?si=gTGEQztX_fxMp9K2)
Anderson Silva (https://youtu.be/RilLU4MV36c?si=rs7r5SxHysKTrAOt)
Xingu People (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xingu_peoples)
Quarup (https://blog.sevenponds.com/cultural-perspectives/quarup-a-festival-for-the-notable-dead-from-the-indigenous-indian-tribes-living-in-brazils-xingu-river-national-park)
Huka Huka (https://ensomartialarts.com/brazil/huka-huka-wrestling/)
Tribal Relations (https://journals.openedition.org/aa/8343)
Yamurikuma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamurikuma)
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter: @ArchaicWrestle
ArchaicWrestling@gmail.com
We had to do it... Pleased to be joined by Austin from Changing Levels Podcast!
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter: @ArchaicWrestle
ArchaicWrestling@gmail.com
8 Sept 2023
Senegalese Wrestling (Laamb) - Ep7 - Archaic Wrestling
Sasha and Evan explore the unique world of wrestling in Western Africa and complain about Rob Koll...
HIGHLIGHTS!! (https://youtu.be/T2V8mJwVUIg?si=FJI2yPREAEIPXYMg)
Serer People
Origins of Laamb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegalese_wrestling)
Rules(?) (https://afroculture.net/senegalese-wrestling-traditional-sport-in-senegal/)
Poverty (https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2019/7/10/senegal-wrestling-with-reality)
Identity (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14661381211035908)
Griot (https://www.seckoukeita.com/my-culture#:~:text=A%20griot%20is%20a%20West,of%20the%20village%20or%20family.)
Women Wrestlers (https://youtu.be/FlIxdsMaYKg?si=jq1KEyaUs4p5hbeN)
Isabelle Sambou (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Sambou)
"Tyson" (https://borgenproject.org/tag/mohamed-tyson-ndao/)
8 Aug 2023
Mongolian Wrestling (Bökh) - Ep6 - Archaic Wrestling
Tighten your Zodog and join Sasha and Evan as they cover another awesome folkstyle...
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter @ArchaicWrestle
archaicwrestling@gmail.com
Mongolian Wrestling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_wrestling)
Highlights (https://youtu.be/4fEVx7lF68k)
Shamanistic Rituals (https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ijshs/4/Special_Issue_2006/4_Special_Issue_2006_103/_pdf/-char/ja)
Naadam (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311983.2023.2191787)
7K BCE Petroglyphs? (https://twitter.com/ArchaicWrestle/status/1688642616487981060)
20 Jul 2023
OLD SCHOOL WRESTLING CLIPS v. Hahn - Ep5 - Archaic Wrestling
We host Old School Wrestling Clips (Mike) from Twitter! We talk old wrestling footage, music, and learn more about his beef with Damion Hahn...
OLD SCHOOL WRESTLING CLIPS - @gut_bench69 on Twitter
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter @ArchaicWrestle
archaicwrestling@gmail.com
17 Jul 2023
Foxcatcher (2014) Review - Ep 4 - Archaic Wrestling
Sasha and Evan chose Foxcatcher for their first film review! The boys talk about rich wrestling funders, Mark Shultz, and cocaine.
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter @ArchaicWrestle
archaicwrestling@gmail.com
12 Jul 2023
Turkish Oil Wrestling - Ep3 - Archaic Wrestling
Evan and Sasha share some hot takes in this one while discussing the slippery nature of Turkish oil wrestling.
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter @ArchaicWrestle
archaicwrestling@gmail.com
Western Perspectives (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-19799-5_28)
Turkish Oil Wrestling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_wrestling#cite_ref-11)
Kirkpinar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfsNvIZ94Ag)
the kisbet (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/043087711X12950015416276)
24 Jun 2023
All Greek to Me - Ep2 - Archaic Wrestling
Γειά σου! Sasha and Evan talk about some tough guys from back in the day. (Sorry about the audio!)
Music by Josh Kasen
Twitter - @ArchaicWrestle
Email us at archaicwrestling@gmail.com
Pale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wrestling)
Milo of Croton (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Milo-of-Croton)
Leontiskos of Messene (http://www.factfiend.com/ancient-greek-wrestler-broke-peoples-fingers/)
Oxyrhynchus Papyrus (https://archive.org/details/oxyrhynchuspapy00huntgoog/page/6/mode/2up)
Fixed Match (https://arkeonews.net/the-first-evidence-of-match-fixing-found-in-the-ancient-world/)
2 May 2023
Archaic Wrestling - Ep 1 - The Oldest Sport
Our first episode! Evan and Sasha introduce themselves and talk a bit about the oldest forms of evidence known about the great sport of wrestling. We promise we'll get better at this...
Lascaux Caves (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lascaux-cave-paintings-discovered)
Sumerian Stone Slabs (https://nwhof.org/national-wrestling-hall-of-fame/pages/the-oldest-sport)
Beni Hasan (https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=4122)
Nubian Rock Reliefs (https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2019/10/9/20903209/from-grappling-art-to-pharaonic-propaganda-the-history-of-wrestling-in-ancient-egypt#:~:text=While%20the%20New%20Kingdom%20saw,years%20later%20in%2030%20BC.)
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