Greek wrestling

Pale ( Greek), wrestling was an important practice in ancient Greek gymnastics, which occupied the fifth position in the group of the Pentathlon.

With the disco throwing and long jump the Pale goes back to the earliest times of Greek gymnastics and was, according to Homer's descriptions already in the heroic age one of the most popular competitions; Schools in the ring she found later higher education. The most common maneuver to throw the opponent, were:

• The solid Embrace of the body with both arms,
• Grasping and pulling up one or both legs,
• The leg positions,
• Kicking with the heel of the knee of the opponent,
• Snaring and chokes the throat with the poor,
• Violent collision of foreheads,
• Squeezing the fingers of the enemy to the same, of pain vanquished, declared himself vanquished.

Any unauthorized handles, including hitting and biting, were frowned upon.

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