OLYMPIC FREESTYLE WRESTLING
Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practiced throughout the world. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic games.
Our coach for the Wrestling classes in Canterbury Safet Rahmov won the Bulgarian Nationals twice and competed intenationally whilst attending college for 5 years studying just Olympic Freestyle wrestling.
It is, along with track and field, one of the oldest organized sports in history.[citation needed] American high school and college wrestling is conducted under different rules and is termed scholastic and collegiate wrestling.
Freestyle wrestling, like collegiate wrestling, has its greatest origins in catch-as-catch-can wrestling and, in both styles, the ultimate goal is to throw and pin your opponent to the mat, which results in an immediate win. Freestyle and collegiate wrestling, unlike Greco-Roman, also both allow the use of the wrestler's or his opponent's legs in offense and defense. Freestyle wrestling is the most complete style of standup wrestling and brings together traditional wrestling, judo, and sambo techniques.
