pankration

[drummingman]

do any of you do pankration? i just fond a place in my area that teaches it and the teacher told me that it is a combo of boxing and wrestling.
what do you all know about this style and what do you think of it?

 

[Steel Tiger]

Pankration was originally an ancient Greek fighting art. One of the three represented in the Olympic Games. Originally, quite a brutal art, but not as brutal as ancient boxing I understand. Alexander the Great had Pankration experts with him during his conquests and many believe that they had some influence on native Indian arts which then had an influence on native Chinese arts.

I am not a practitioner so all I can tell you is that it is an art that includes hand work, kicking and wrestling, maybe the worlds oldest MMA!

 

[Andrew Green]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration

Hard to say, the style has been "dead" for a long time, then brought back. Some are pretty good, others not so much. Give it a try, see what you think.

 

[Tez3]

I believe it's still a martial art in Greece and they compete in MMA competitions. However unlike the original exponents they do it clothed.

 

[Shotgun Buddha]

I believe it's still a martial art in Greece and they compete in MMA competitions. However unlike the original exponents they do it clothed.

But that misses the whole point!

 

[Shaderon]

I believe it's still a martial art in Greece and they compete in MMA competitions. However unlike the original exponents they do it clothed.

DARN! That might have made good TV (post watershed of course)

 

[Blindside]

I believe it's still a martial art in Greece and they compete in MMA competitions. However unlike the original exponents they do it clothed.

It was "recreated" so it really doesn't have ties to whatever they did historically. It may be a fine martial art, but it is just a name.

 

[The Kidd]

There are some really good videos by Bas Rattan on dailymotion.com and he does Pankration.

 

[Tez3]

It was "recreated" so it really doesn't have ties to whatever they did historically. It may be a fine martial art, but it is just a name.

Recreated? the programme I saw them doing it on (it was about the Olympic Games on the BBC and you can't get more truthful than that lol) it was exactly the same! Well of course not exactly as they weren't naked nor killing each other but that's only small differences! (chuckles to herself)