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Wrestling - Catch-As-Catch-Can, Cumberland & Westmorland, All-In Styles - E. J. Harrison
1934.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
WRESTLING in its more primitive forms is probably the most ancient of all physical exercises in which one human being pits himself against another for the mastery, without the use of lethal weapons. In purely friendly contest the use of the hand or fist for slapping or striking has not usually been permitted in generally recognized styles of the art, until the advent of the so-called All-in
system, for which reason it has proved itself to be a more healthful exercise and one capable of being practised far longer than boxing.
True, wrestling in any of its various forms may cause its votaries an occasional dislocation or muscular strain, but, in contradistinction to professional boxing, it is rarely that anything more serious than a superficial injury is inflicted. A comparison between the respective maximum ages at which boxing and wrestling can be practised professionally is all in favour of the latter. Thus Poddubny, the famous Cossack wrestler in the French or, as it is also called, the Græco-Roman style, was winning international victories up to his sixty-fifth year. The former English champions, George Steadman and George Louden, were still active in their fifties. A former world champion, George Hackenschmidt, retired on his laurels and a decent competence before he reached that age, but to-day in his fifties he is known to be still amazingly strong and agile, and fully capable, were he so minded, of again taking the mat against most men of his weight. If, too, the Japanese art of Judo or Ju-jitsu be included among branches of wrestling, we have the classic instance of the famous founder of the celebrated Kodokwan of Tokyo, Professor Jigoro Kano who, at the age of seventy-four or thereabouts, is hale and hearty, as active as a cat, and still able to give a prolonged physical demonstration of his art without turning a hair.
Undoubtedly, like any other intensive sport, wrestling of whatever school makes severe demands upon the strength and endurance of its followers, and possession of an absolutely strong heart is indispensable to the wrestler. There are not indeed wanting critics who assert that wrestling is responsible in many cases for enlargement of the heart and premature death. It is, however, very doubtful whether such an assertion could be satisfactorily proved, although if indulged in to excess wrestling, like any other athletic exercise, may become injurious to health. Moreover, it would probably be found, on careful investigation, that some comparatively early deaths among wrestlers have been due less to their profession than to over-indulgence in alcohol or addiction to other vices.
There is, however, one conclusion to which I myself have been forced as the result of sustained personal observation, experience, and hearsay, viz. that it is not advisable for the wrestler, who has devoted long years to the practice of his art, to desist suddenly and retire to a sedentary mode of life. An abrupt transition of this kind can be only harmful to the subject, and may easily precipitate physical deterioration and premature death. The Japanese are quite convinced of this in the case of Judo, so that the professional teacher of the art in Japan, if well advised, will never suddenly abandon practice, but instead will do so gradually, by gentle degrees, until his system has had time to become attuned to less strenuous habits. The reason for this is not far to seek. All exercise is a form of stimulus, the sudden removal of which may entail some organic or nervous disturbance. Wrestling, pertaining as it does to the more intensive forms of physical exercise, cannot be instantly renounced without risk of similar