swap_horiz Glima Alternatives

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Professional Sumo

Professional sumo is a traditional Japanese combat sport involving two rikishi wrestlers competing within a circular rin...

Professional Traditional Japanese Grappling

8.6 Great

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Oil Wrestling

Oil Wrestling is Turkey's national style, using olive oil and leather kisbet trousers; the Kirkpinar tournament near Edi...

Traditional Festival Turkish Grappling

7.7 Good

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Mongolian Wrestling (Bökh)

Mongolian Wrestling, or Bökh, is a traditional grappling sport central to Mongolia's Naadam festival where a competitor...

Traditional Upright Grappling Mongolian

7.5 Good

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Bokh

Bokh is Mongolian folk wrestling, one of Naadam's Three Manly Games, where touching the ground with more than a foot or...

Traditional Grappling Throws Mongolian

7.5 Good

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Pahlavani Wrestling

Pahlavani Wrestling is Iran's koshti pahlavani, the wrestling core of zurkhaneh athletics, which UNESCO listed as herita...

Historic Traditional Iranian Grappling

7.3 Good

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Kushti

Kushti is a traditional form of mud wrestling practiced in India where athletes train in specific dirt pits called akhar...

Indian Traditional Grappling Wrestling

7.2 Good

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Pehlwani

Pehlwani is a South Asian combat sport heavily influenced by Persian Varzesh-e Pahlavani, combining traditional grapplin...

Indian Traditional South Asian Grappling

7.2 Good

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Sport Jujutsu

Sport Jujutsu is a modern competitive format derived from traditional Japanese martial arts, notable for blending striki...

Traditional Japanese Sport Submission

7.2 Good

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Kazakh Kures

Kazakh Kures is Kazakhstan's standing folk wrestling style; UNESCO listed Kuresi in Kazakhstan as intangible cultural he...

Traditional Grappling Throws Kazakh

7.2 Good

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Lutte Traditionnelle

Lutte Traditionnelle is West African folk wrestling, known as Laamb in Senegal and Kokawa in Hausa areas, with Francopho...

Traditional Folk African Grappling

7.2 Good

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Kuresh

Kuresh is a Central Asian belt-wrestling family in which athletes grip towels or belts; its Uzbek kurash code has held w...

Traditional Belt Grappling Throws

7.1 Good

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Belt Wrestling

Belt Wrestling is a broad family of grappling styles in which opponents grip a belt, towel, or girdle; Alysh was interna...

Traditional Belt Grappling Throws

7.1 Good

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Jacket Wrestling

Jacket Wrestling is a family of belt-and-jacket grappling styles from Europe and Asia, notable because clothing grips de...

Traditional Folk Grappling Throws

7.1 Good

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Shuai Jiao

Shuai Jiao is a traditional Chinese jacket wrestling style with roots tracing back over four thousand years, focusing he...

Traditional Chinese Grappling Throws

7.0 Good

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Karakucak Wrestling

Karakucak Wrestling is a Turkish folk style sanctioned nationwide, fought on grass in canvas trousers and distinguished...

Traditional Folk Turkish Grappling

6.8 Fair

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Backhold Wrestling

Backhold Wrestling is a Scottish and North Country style in which wrestlers lock arms around the torso; a broken grip or...

Traditional Folk Grappling Throws

6.8 Fair

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Kyrgyz Kurosh

Kyrgyz Kurosh is a Kyrgyz form of kuresh belt wrestling, contested at World Nomad Games events as part of Central Asian...

Traditional Belt Grappling Throws

6.7 Fair

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Gatta Gusthi

Gatta Gusthi is Kerala's submission wrestling style in India, notable for beach or sand-ground bouts in a godha and phay...

Indian Traditional Folk Grappling

6.7 Fair

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Shima Wrestling

Shima Wrestling is Okinawa's local sumo style, notable for festival bouts on sand where victory comes by putting the opp...

Traditional Folk Grappling Wrestling

6.7 Fair

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Pahlavani

Pahlavani is a traditional Iranian martial art and physical training system rooted in Zurkhaneh, blending wrestling, cal...

Traditional Iranian Grappling Wrestling

6.5 Fair