Viking Wrestling: GLIMA

[The Gubbinz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glima
http://www.hafrsfjordspillene.no/pdf/enoksen_viking_martialarts.pdf (pictures, but PDF)
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache...rts.pdf+viking+glima&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=3
http://ejmas.com/jwma/articles/2000/jwmaart_kautz_0100.htm

Do you believe the Viking art of Glima would provide any carry-over of useful moves in grappling, or build any useful skills in balance in strength for grappling?

It is a stand-up grappling art as far as I can see. It seems to have quite a few ways to knock the opponent down without going in for the takedown and going down with them. If at no other time, it may help later on when you're both gassed, like situations where I see some stone-chinned heavyweights find themselves get into.

 

[Jimmy Cerra]

Might be a good new perspectice, but the pictures look like the throws already known to judo.

 

[krellik]

Whery set rituals. It basicly looks like the practioners are dancing. It is cool that it is preserved as an cultural thing, but it is not likely to provide anything more suitable for mma than wrestling and judo can.

 

[The Gubbinz]

Are you guys trying to tell me that any MA other than Glima has a move called the "cross-buttock aloft". Now THAT's what I'm talking about!

Now that I think of it, it does kind of sound like what Judo is supposed to be like, but I don't know very much about grappling.

Would it be legal to grab the wasitband of an opponent's trunks in MMA?

 

[Farnsworth]

Impress your friends by mastering such lauded techniques as "The Outside Stroke", "The cross buttock", "The inside-hipe", and the "half buttock"!!!

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