http://wrestlingroots.org/

Thanks, Tim!

Very cool!

I loved the instructional at the bottom in the video section.

Crisp technique.

From the shanxi shuai jiao post:

"I thought that my Tai chi push hands training would come in handy as from what I had seen tai chi push hands and Shuio Jiao wrestling where similar. BANG! I was on the mat; I didn’t really know what had happened"

"He grabbed my feet my knees my neck, my fingers. Everything I was not taught to do in Tai chi push hands."

Sadly par for the course in modern day push hands training. Imagine if they all would have been wrestling the whole time!

"... the ancients obviously knew that by encoding morality into a sport that is hyper masculine by its very nature, it would attract young men and a process of indoctrination could then take place. Through training, initiations and simply by association with experienced elders, they would learn about the correct behaviour expected of mature adult men and then certainly entails the protection of the most vulnerable in society. These heroic obligations are denied to males in the modern Western world who are facing an emasculation process like never before in history, as the state aggressively takes these responsibilities from them. Contemporary writers refer to this as a crisis in masculinity especially in this era of mass divorce, which is seeing a whole generation of youth raised in single parent families, all too often with little or no positive contact with their own fathers, never mind other male role models. Mass media then provides the de facto definition of manhood that boys aspire towards and due to teen angst this inevitably comes from [the mass media]. In their most impressionable years boys are given no guidance on how to proceed into adulthood and instead are propagandized by unrealistic fantasies that are impossible to attain without negative social consequences, ultimately leading to esteem destruction and nihilistic pessimism."

This is an excerpt from another excellent article that Wrestling Roots posted on their FB page. Check out more here: http://threeharmonies.blogspot.com/2012/01/wrestling-grappling-cultural-treasure .html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qRL1dBnYVk&feature=g-user-lik&context=G2ecc11cUC GXQYbcTJ33YZmt-fESnf6dVA4X4Tc8cGpxv0gEPhUIY

a Tradtionalist vs a BJJ dude

A little bit o' BJJ goes a long way eh!?

"...A little bit o' BJJ goes a long way.."

Could not of said it better myself.

That guy was a legit BJJ white belt.