Wrestling: Catch-as-Catch-Can Style (1912)
- Author
- Edward Hitchcock Jr. & R. F. Nelligan
- Year
- 1912
- Art
- WrestlingCatch Wrestling
- Type
- Technique
- Level
- For practitioners
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Public domain
Summary
American college manual from 1912 on catch-as-catch-can wrestling: positions, takedowns, rides and pins.
Why it matters
Catch is the root of freestyle wrestling and of the catch wrestling that influenced MMA.
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