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I watched this topnotch documentary on youtube yesterday and wanted to share.

Curran Jacobs (MSU wrestler and catch world champion) has put together a documentary on the history of catch-as-catch-can wrestling along with Mike Chapman (WIN Magazine, creator of the Hodge Trophy, 5x National Wrestling Writer of the Year) that is absolutely fascinating. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

Learn about guys like Billy Riley, Karl Gotch, Frank Gotch, Farmer Burns, and many more. Watch Terry Brands volunteer to get his tibia broken with a toe hold in front of the Gable statue. See the passion Dan Gable and others have for the history of the sport.

It is an hour and seventeen minutes well spent.

To paraphrase Mike Chapman, get hooked on catch.

Drowning in data, but thirsting for knowledge

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20 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

I watched this topnotch documentary on youtube yesterday and wanted to share.

Curran Jacobs (MSU wrestler and catch world champion) has put together a documentary on the history of catch-as-catch-can wrestling along with Mike Chapman (WIN Magazine, creator of the Hodge Trophy, 5x National Wrestling Writer of the Year) that is absolutely fascinating. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

Learn about guys like Billy Riley, Karl Gotch, Frank Gotch, Farmer Burns, and many more. Watch Terry Brands volunteer to get his tibia broken with a toe hold in front of the Gable statue. See the passion Dan Gable and others have for the history of the sport.

It is an hour and seventeen minutes well spent.

To paraphrase Mike Chapman, get hooked on catch.

ill watch after work, what differentiates this from bjj or submission grappling, I have not heard of it.

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5 minutes ago, Truzzcat said:

ill watch after work, what differentiates this from bjj or submission grappling, I have not heard of it.

Both BJJ and submission grappling are offshoots of catch according to the doc.

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On 5/28/2024 at 4:25 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

I watched this topnotch documentary on youtube yesterday and wanted to share.

Curran Jacobs (MSU wrestler and catch world champion) has put together a documentary on the history of catch-as-catch-can wrestling along with Mike Chapman (WIN Magazine, creator of the Hodge Trophy, 5x National Wrestling Writer of the Year) that is absolutely fascinating. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

Learn about guys like Billy Riley, Karl Gotch, Frank Gotch, Farmer Burns, and many more. Watch Terry Brands volunteer to get his tibia broken with a toe hold in front of the Gable statue. See the passion Dan Gable and others have for the history of the sport.

It is an hour and seventeen minutes well spent.

To paraphrase Mike Chapman, get hooked on catch.

I always thought that american folkstyle wrestling was catch? What's the difference? Oh, I had no idea there was 2 Gotch brothers, I only knew about Frank. 

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4 hours ago, NM1965 said:

I always thought that american folkstyle wrestling was catch? What's the difference? Oh, I had no idea there was 2 Gotch brothers, I only knew about Frank. 

Supposedly folkstyle is what catch (without submissions) has evolved into.  I suppose kind of like both 2024 sport Judo and sport BJJ are evolutions of Japanese jujutsu.

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36 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

Supposedly folkstyle is what catch (without submissions) has evolved into.  I suppose kind of like both 2024 sport Judo and sport BJJ are evolutions of Japanese jujutsu.

Wrestling with submissions? I love it. They need to bring it back. 

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