Sinosic-Perosh Martial Arts
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Wrestling
Wrestling at SPMA
Learn the essential takedowns and throws and counters required when in the clinch or to take your opponent down to the ground.
In the wrestling class you will learn how to takedown and throw an opponent. You will also learn how to defend against takedowns and throws.
No matter whether you do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or Thai Kickboxing, it is a good class to add to your training. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu students need to learn takedowns so they can get the fight to the ground to use their BJJ skills. On the flip side, Thai Kickboxing students need to learn Wrestling to defend against takedowns so they can stay on their feet to use their Thai Kickboxing skills.
For information on classes and class times at each of your your SPMA locations please refer to the Timetable page.
There is no set syllabus and there are no gradings in wrestling.
Thee are numerous wrestling competitions, which are run by the Australian Wrestling Union such as local, state and national championships.
The History of Wrestling
The ancient Greek Olympic Games first put wrestling on the map. Wrestling made it's Olympic debut in the Games of 708 B.C. It was a much more violent, punishing sport in the early days, when it had closer ties to military training. Wrestling spread through the Roman world, as well as other early civilizations in India, Japan, China and throughout the Middle East.
Wrestling all but died out with the Olympic Games in the Dark Ages, but it was natural that when organizers of the 1896 Olympics were searching for sports with roots in antiquity, they looked to wrestling. It was the showpiece event of those Olympics, much as the 100-metre final is in the modern Olympics.
Modern Greco-Roman wrestling was first mad popular in France. At the same time, a less restrictive brand of wrestling made inroads in the Western world. Unlike Greco-Roman wrestlers, who tried to throw or otherwise force their opponents to the mat with holds around the upper body, freestyle wrestlers had more options. They could trip their opponents, grab and their legs and use their own legs in holds and take-downs. Fittingly, freestyle wrestling also became known as “catch as catch can” and proved to be popular entertainment in the 19th Century.
And here’s where the history gets a little confusing. Despite being a revival of the Olympic tradition, it seems the wrestling showcased at the 1896 Games was closer to freestyle than classical Greco-Roman. The toast of the 1896 competition was Germany’s Carl Schumann in the heavyweight class – not so much for his wrestling victory, but for the fact that he was also a gold medallist in gymnastics.
After a hiatus in 1900, wrestling was back as freestyle wrestling in 1904. Four years later, Olympic organizers resurrected Greco-Roman wrestling, in which use of the legs is forbidden, a style they believed to be a direct carryover from the Greek and Roman wrestlers of old.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) – Thai Kickboxing – Wrestling – Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) – Ki Yoga – Kids
Inner West Sydney
29A Majors Bay Rd,
Concord NSW 2137
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South West Sydney
Ste 1 & 2,
Level 1 224-238 George St,
Liverpool NSW 2170
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