arnisador
08-05-2009, 02:32 PM
It’s Like Wrestling, Only Sandier
To Help the Sport, Tournaments Trade Gyms for the Beach; ‘Go to the Bucket’ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574326940655027108.html)
Danny Mullan doesn’t have to work very hard to explain the allure of the sporting event he organized earlier this summer in New Jersey. It can be summed up in about five words. Guys wrestling on the beach.
If there’s any confusion, just add the word shirtless.
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Across the country—and as far away as Albania—advocates for this ancient Olympic sport are looking for new ways to drag it out of a slump. While overall participation in high schools in the U.S. is stable, many U.S. colleges have eliminated their wrestling programs—often to add more women’s sports.
In the meantime, many wrestlers all over the world have gravitated to more glamorous (and more lucrative) forms of athletic combat, like mixed martial arts, which combine elements of boxing, judo, kickboxing and wrestling, and where wrestlers have proven to be some of the best competitors.
Will Going Shirtless on the Beach Save Wrestling? (http://www.queerty.com/will-going-shirtless-on-the-beach-save-wrestling-20090805/)
Is beach wrestling going to save the sport? Not all by itself. While high school wrestling numbers are healthy, colleges are swapping funding for men's wrestling with women's programs to even things out, and plenty of would-be wrestlers are gravitating toward "sexier" sports like mixed martial arts (or at least the anecdotal evidence suggests as much).
To Help the Sport, Tournaments Trade Gyms for the Beach; ‘Go to the Bucket’ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574326940655027108.html)
Danny Mullan doesn’t have to work very hard to explain the allure of the sporting event he organized earlier this summer in New Jersey. It can be summed up in about five words. Guys wrestling on the beach.
If there’s any confusion, just add the word shirtless.
[...]
Across the country—and as far away as Albania—advocates for this ancient Olympic sport are looking for new ways to drag it out of a slump. While overall participation in high schools in the U.S. is stable, many U.S. colleges have eliminated their wrestling programs—often to add more women’s sports.
In the meantime, many wrestlers all over the world have gravitated to more glamorous (and more lucrative) forms of athletic combat, like mixed martial arts, which combine elements of boxing, judo, kickboxing and wrestling, and where wrestlers have proven to be some of the best competitors.
Will Going Shirtless on the Beach Save Wrestling? (http://www.queerty.com/will-going-shirtless-on-the-beach-save-wrestling-20090805/)
Is beach wrestling going to save the sport? Not all by itself. While high school wrestling numbers are healthy, colleges are swapping funding for men's wrestling with women's programs to even things out, and plenty of would-be wrestlers are gravitating toward "sexier" sports like mixed martial arts (or at least the anecdotal evidence suggests as much).