The Irish Collar and Elbow wrestling stance (and how to grip the jacket) скачать в хорошем качестве

The Irish Collar and Elbow wrestling stance (and how to grip the jacket)

"Gallagher, hold up your head!" Right from the earliest days of Collar and Elbow's recorded presence in Ireland, it has been unambiguously described as upright wrestling. The ideal stance was one that was "as straight and light as a dancing master" (1849), allowing both competitors to engage in C&E's characteristic battles of footsparring and trips. This upright posture was subsequently enshrined in all the written rulesets of the 1870s: "Both men shall stand up breast to breast, with limber arms, and show fair and equal play." (Ed James rules point 3, National Police Gazette rules point 4, etc.). When coming to C&E from other grappling styles, it can sometimes prove difficult to keep this upright posture in mind. Especially when coming from a style like BJJ, freestyle wrestling, or Sambo, in which you have to defend against leg grabs, we have often grown accustomed to holding a more "hunched over" posture in order to keep our hips away from our opponent. In Collar and Elbow, that kind of stance is considered stalling, and is simply not allowed. Here's a quick overview of how a good C&E stance should look, as well as some details on exactly where and how to grip the jacket in keeping with the historical ruleset(s).