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A Beginner's Guide to Youth Wrestling

Wrestling as a competitive sport has been around for centuries. That makes sense, as wrestling doesn't require any specialized equipment other than your own body, and you don't need to organize an entire team of people to participate. All you need to wrestle competitively is a worthy opponent and some knowledge of the basic styles of wrestling. Of course, the more practice you have under your belt, the better off you will be, as well. People have used wrestling to establish dominance through competition at least since ancient Roman times, in the very first Olympics, and most likely even for centuries before that. Through all this time, these basic styles have actually changed very little. Greco-Roman Wrestling This is the most traditional style of wrestling fight fans which has been used in competitive arenas throughout the ages. Greco-Roman wrestling involves strictly upper body moves.  You are not allowed to do things like sweep your opponent's legs out from under the