Sport wrestling

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Chapters: Amateur wrestling, Folk wrestling, Sport wrestling films, Sumo wrestling, Wrestling weight classes, Pankration, Collegiate wrestling, Makuuchi, Glossary of sumo terms, List of sumo tournament top division winners, Kimarite, International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles, USA Wrestling, Catch wrestling, List of sumo tournament second division winners, Professional sumo divisions, Vision Quest, Real Pro Wrestling, List of sumo beya, Japan Sumo Association, Sumo East and West, Yusho, Wrestling singlet, Amateur Pankration, Greek wrestling, Nelson hold, Mawashi, Cradle, Pin, Banzuke, Wrestling headgear, Honbasho, Sansho, Sumo at the World Games, Canarian wrestling, Kinboshi, Personal Effects, Going to the Mat, Dohyo, Kanreki dohyo-iri, Gouren, Technical fall, Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy, Shikona, Mochikyukin, Shini-tai, Flesh, Kinjite, Tsuyuharai, Tachimochi, Chankonabe, Tachi-ai, Chonmage, Bridge, Sunkist Kids, Sekitori, Wrestling shoes, Matsugane Stable, Amateur wrestling in Australia, Nekodamashi, Gunbai. Excerpt: Collegiate wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the collegiate and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling emerged from the folk wrestling styles practised in the early history of the United States. This style, with some slight modifications, is also practised at the high school and middle school levels, and also among younger participants, where it is known as scholastic wrestling. These names help distinguish collegiate wrestling from other styles of wrestling that are practised around the world such as those in the Olympic Games: Freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling. Collegiate wrestling, like its international counterpart, freestyle wrestling, has its main origins in catch-as-catch-can wrestling. In both styles, the ultimate goal is to pin the opponent to the mat, which results in an immediate win. Collegiate and freestyle wrestling, unlike Greco-Roman, also both allow the use of the wrestler's or his opponent's legs in offense and defense. However, collegiate wrestling has had so many influences from the wide variety of folk wrestling styles brought into the country that it has become distinctly American. In collegiate wrestling, great emphasis is placed on one wrestler's control of the opponent on the mat, usually by controlling the opponent's legs or torso. When a wrestler gains control and maintains restraining power over an opponent, as seen here, he is said to be in the position of advantage. Throws can be performed in collegiate wrestling, but there is not as much emphasis placed on them as in the international styles.Collegiate wrestling differs in a number of ways from freestyle and Greco-Roman. Some of the differences are listed below. This emphasis on control was present in collegiate wrestling from its earliest days. Since 1915, collegiate wrestling officials have recorded the time that each participant had in controlling his opponent on the m