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Collar-and-elbow clubs?

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  • 20-05-2018 5:09pm
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    Asus X540L
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    Hi,
    I'm looking to take up traditional Irish wrestling (coraíocht), aka "Collar-and-elbow".

    Are there any clubs in the Cork area?

    Cheers


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    laoch na mona
    Registered Users Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    As far as know traditional Irish wrestling died out in the 19th century, It would be great to see it revived but we do have a vbrant grappling scence thats connected to the mma bjj scence.

    Any mma club will have grappling classes,


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    Nichololas
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    As laoch na mona said, it doesn't exist any more. That said, grappling is grappling is grappling - with variations due to rulesets, attire (gi or no-gi), and some regional stylistic variations. Hence the wikipedia page for collar and elbow lists the throws with reference to most similar judo or wrestling techniques.

    There are a couple BJJ, Judo and Sambo clubs in the Cork area. You could find the one with the most Irish members, throw in a cupla focail, and start calling it coraíocht if you really wanted.


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    Mellor
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    You'll only find collar and elbow in the states, and even that it would be a struggle. Abraham Lincoln was a practitioner IIRC.
    Best bet in Ireland for similar jacket wrestling is probably judo or sambo.


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    KathleenMcCabe
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    Perhaps some of the Medieval sword clubs might know of somewhere?
    I know of some guys who were covering some of the stag wrestling a few years back - so it might be worth a try?


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Asus X540L wrote: »
    Hi,
    I'm looking to take up traditional Irish wrestling (coraht), aka "Collar-and-elbow".

    Are there any clubs in the Cork area?

    Cheers

    In Cork the only club which comes to mind would be Muskerry Judo Club, they've a few members also training/competing in Sambo (Lloyd Manning).

    They'd be highly recommended, outside of that I can't help you. Sorry.


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