Podcasts by The Hero with a Thousand Holds
Exploring our common grappling heritage by diving into the history, culture, roots, and ultimate fate of various folk-wrestling styles around the world - everywhere from the storm-scarred shores of Tierra del Fuego to the steppes of Mongolia to the jagged peaks of the Caucasus mountains.
Further podcasts by Ruadhán MacFadden
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
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Episode 1.5: Irish Collar and Elbow Remastered from 2020-11-14T23:00
As the modern revival of the Irish national wrestling style continues, it’s time to lay old myths to rest.
To mark the 2-year anniversary of The Hero with a Thousand Holds, I’ve re-written...
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A Phone Call to the Inner Mongolian Steppe from 2020-09-01T22:00
Lavell Marshall is a world champion and 5-time US national champion in Shuai Jiao, a form of Chinese jacket wrestling. For the past year, he’s been living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region...
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Episode 6: The Roar of the Rain: Ritualized Jaguar Combat in Guerrero, Mexico from 2020-08-17T22:00
The region of the world stretching from Mexico to Costa Rica – traditionally referred to as “Mesoamerica” – was, in its pre-Columbian heyday, home to empires that mapped time, carved words out o...
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Episode 5: By Law Shall Land Be Built: Icelandic Glíma from 2020-01-26T23:00
One of the last major landmasses to be settled by human beings, Iceland is nowadays a thriving modern nation that boasts a highly educated populace and one of the highest standards of living on ...
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Episode 4: "O Sword, Forged in Khevsureti": Georgian Chidaoba from 2019-09-25T22:00
The Caucasus mountains, a 750-mile-long chain of rock and ice stretching between the Black and Caspian seas, have traditionally been regarded as one of the great cultural boundaries between Euro...
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The Kimura Traps of Angkor from 2019-05-10T22:00
The traditional wrestling of Cambodia, Bok Cham Bab, has a history stretching back to the days when the Khmer Empire was the undisputed lord and master of the Southeast Asian mainland. At the he...
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Episode 3: Killing Sharks in the Open Sea: Vietnamese Dau Vat from 2019-04-10T22:00
In the western world, our conceptions of Vietnam are often limited to the Vietnam War – that prolonged and devastating conflict in the mid-20th century that resulted in the deaths of anywhere up...
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Chipewyan wrestling: a grappling isolate? from 2019-02-06T23:00
The Chipewyan (Denésoliné), a First Nations people of northern Canada, historically had a deeply ingrained – and in many ways highly unique – wrestling tradition that was remarked upon by almost...
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Episode 2: Beyond the End of the World: Yaghan Wrestling of Tierra del Fuego from 2019-01-05T23:00
The Yaghan are - were - the southernmost people in the world; a scattered group of nomadic hunters living on the sub-antarctic inlets and islands of Tierra del Fuego. Yet despite being so isolat...
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Episode 1: Irish Collar & Elbow from 2018-11-15T23:00
The first in a series of podcasts looking at some of the obscure folk-wrestling styles from around the world. This one explores the ancient and now sadly forgotten art of Irish collar & elbo...
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