nice story Villa...
you shoulòd start a Blog in this forum....

let's go for it!

I knew a priest ten years ago from Samoa. He was a good rugby player but also he told me that in the college practiced wrestling...I thought that wrestling was only show, but I realized that it's completely different.

Paogan, Samoans make good wrestlers and good football players. Played football with some Samoans in college.
One of my Samoan friends was a state wrestling champion and a really great football player

Wrestling is an Olympic event. There are two styles of wrestling in the Olympics actually. Free style wrestling where you can grab the legs and Greco Romano(Greco Roman) where you cannot grab the legs. Very ironically Greco Roman wrestling does not come directly from the Greeks or the Romans. It is a style of wrestling developed in France. Italy practices both Free Style and Greco Roman wrestling. In the U.S. real wrestling especially Free Style wrestling is practiced in many high schools and colleges. There are also jr. wrestling programs for children and many start to wrestle when they are only 5 years old or younger. Also girls start wrestling at 5 and can be very compeitive with the boys. Girls are now wrestling in high school and college. They use to compete against the boys but now it's against other girls. There is now high school state wrestling championships for the girls in most states in the U.S.

Also in the Olympics is the sport of Judo which is not to be confused with Karate. Judo does not have punches or kicks. Basically it's wrestling with a uniform or gi. I also practiced judo which is very interchangable with real wrestling.

Wrestling will make you a better football and rugby player by the way. Many football teams in the U.S. practice wrestling in the off season.

Greco-Roman wrestling
Country of origin France
Creator Exbroyat
Parenthood European styles of folk wrestling; in particular French "flat-hand" wrestling
Famous practitioners Georg Hackenschmidt, Jeff Blatnick, Steve Fraser, Alexander Karelin, Rulon Gardner
Olympic Sport Yes
Greco-Roman wrestling is a form of amateur wrestling practiced throughout the world. Along with freestyle, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic games.

Colloquially referred to simply as Greco, this style of wrestling forbids attacks below the waist. As a result, throws are encouraged as the Greco-Roman wrestler cannot avoid being thrown by simply hooking or grabbing his opponent's leg. Otherwise, the sport is similar to freestyle.

Arm drags, bearhugs, and headlocks found in freestyle have greater prominence in Greco-Roman. Throws especially known as suplays are used, in which the offensive wrestler lifts his opponent in a high arch while falling backward on his own neck to a bridge in order to bring his opponent's shoulders down to the mat. Even on the mat, a Greco-Roman wrestler must still find several ways to turn his opponent's shoulders to the mat for a fall without legs, including (but not limited to) techniques known as the bodylock and the gut-wrench.[1]

According to the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA), Greco-Roman wrestling is one of the four main forms of amateur competitive wrestling practiced internationally today. The other three forms are freestyle wrestling, grappling (also called submission wrestling), and sambo.

History
Greco-Roman wrestling actually derived from a 19th century French form of show-wrestling popular for its high throws. It is speculated that many styles of European folk wrestling may have spurred the origins of Greco-Roman wrestling. The British wrestling styles that originated in Cumberland and Westmoreland have some holds that are not allowed in Greco-Roman, but restricted arm holds to the upper torso, and was quite similar to Greco-Roman. The styles of Devon and Cornwall also had the wrestlers using their holds above waist level.[2] According to FILA, a Napoleonic soldier named Exbroyat first developed the style. Exbroyat performed in fairs and called his style of wrestling "flat hand wrestling" to distinguish it from other forms of hand-to-hand combat that allowed striking. In 1848, Exbroyat established the rule that no holds below the waist were to be allowed; neither were painful holds or torsions that would hurt the opponent. "Flat hand wrestling" or "French wrestling" (as the style became known) developed all throughout Europe and became a popular sport. The Italian wrestler Basilio Bartoli first coined the term "Greco-Roman" for the sport to underline the interest in "ancient values."[3] Many others in the 18th and 19th centuries sought to add value to their contemporary athletic practices by finding some connections with ancient counterparts. So, it was widely believed soon enough that Greco-Roman wrestling emerged from a Greek wrestling competition known as "upright wrestling" in which only upper body holds were allowed. The 18th century work Gymnastics for Youth by Johann Friedrich Guts Muths described a form of schoolboy wrestling called "orthopale" (used by Plato to describe the standing part of wrestling) that did not mention any lower-body holds.[4] Real ancient wrestling was quite different; see Greek wrestling.

Trying to bring this link up. Just type in Greco Roman wrestling and do a search. When you see below then click on it. Has nice video or videos of actual Greco Roman match highlights.

World University champion Spencer Mango: Greco Roman ...
Roman wrestling...He is a 2006 world University champion for ...
1 min 31 sec -

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4207488426585640001

woow.

In any case, do you think will watch six nations on tv, next saturday?
We've changed the coach and at the moment the way for the success is far.
In any case we have to be very close to the team.

Grazie paogan. Didn't really know that much about rugby in Italy. Ora si.

The Italy national rugby union team represent the nation of Italy in the sport of rugby union. The team are also known as the Azzurri (Blues) and "The Gladiators of Rome". Italy have been playing international rugby since the late 1920s, and today are considered one of the best rugby nations in Europe and compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Italy really came to prominence following 2000 when they became a part of the Five Nations, making it the Six Nations. Italy have also competed at every Rugby World Cup since the first tournament in 1987. Their best result thus far has been in 2003 where they managed two wins during the pool stages.

Italy achieved their best result thus far in the Six Nations in the 2007 competition, with wins over Scotland and Wales. Italy were grouped in Pool C of the 2007 Rugby World Cup, with Scotland, the All Blacks, Romania and Portugal. Their current head coach is Nick Mallett.

Perfect now you're a fan. But we have to meet more people in this forum to help Italy with our support.

Help me to kmow this sport in this website please.

yes paolo,
i guess you also should say hallo to everybody introducing yourself in this forum, like everyone did before...
Just Hi my name is....
your interests ...and bla bla bla...

I posted my hello one week ago. My interest are rugby, cigars.
And my name is Paolo gangi. Do you know me? AHAHAH

bye