FRENCH WRESTLING: [TRANSLATED] - Softcover

LYNCH, MATTHEW

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1976790093 ISBN 13: 9781976790096

Publisher: Independently published, 2018

Synopsis

This guideline to the proper practice of "French Wrestling" was written in 1891 to bring order and regularity to wrestling as it stood at the time. This was of course the age of carnival wrestlers, itinerant gargantuans who took on all comers drunk or stupid enough to challenge them. The writer of the preface to this book laments this state of affairs and thanks the author for his efforts to clean up the sport and return it to its proper place "between boxing and fencing". This trend seems to have been successful as we now find Olympic and collegiate wrestling to be highly organized and respectable sports. At the same time, Leon Ville includes what we could call "the backbreaker" among his arsenal of moves, as well as instructions for a side neck crank akin to the guillotine choke which, if applied with bad intention, would break a man's neck.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1976790093
• ISBN 13: 9781976790096
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 43