Combat of The 300 Spartans - Ancient Greek Pankration

Part 1 of 2 - Your Greek News' Anastasia meets up with the founder of the Armak Spartan Pankration Academy, one of the most historically accurate sources of combat knowledge for the hit movie '300', where she learns a little bit about what it meant to bear the lambda at the battle of Thermopylae. Look for Part 2 where Anastasia takes a turn learning to fight like a Spartan.

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[yussefumaketse]

The instructors words from 6:36-6:44, give me serious doubts. Seriously? Documentation back to 20,000 years? That was roughly the period following the Ice Age. Also, writing was not invented until approx 5000 BC. Also, when he says Chinese legend going back to only 1000 years is plain wrong. It is a civilization that is over 2000 years old! I'm sure he is a good martial arts teacher, but I think a little fact checking might be in order here.

[koringn]

@yussefumaketse i am greek and can tell you it was only recently found that we have been around for just under 4000years not 20,000 i agree he does need to check facts.

[morfeas333]

@gnarlyismymiddlename Say this to the French. They are the first to boycott the art from the 1896.

[scumbagsteve2011]

LOL @ documentation going back 12,000 years, when ancient Greeks started writing and documenting things in its most basic form during the 9th century B.C! Thats just under 3,000 years at the very most, and none of the early documentation or even early pottery paintings depict any form of pankration, it came into the Olympics in the mid-7th century B.C. So many people who claim to be experts on pankration have their facts seriously messed up because they are not scholars.

[PetrosGoltsis]

χαχα εαν είσαστε Ελλήνες γιατί δεν μιλάτε ελληνικά ρε ψευταράδες..

[giannis2krx]

ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ!

[gnarlyismymiddlename]

when will pankration come back to the olympics...

[DynastyLuminous46]

@loui3333 Ancient form of Vale Tudo, and this existed way before Japanese Judo and Jiu Jitsu too.

[loui3333]

Wow so this like an ancient form of Vale Tudo

[konkef]

read isiodos... 

[mysterion1994]

@yussefumaketse indeed but he said ''legend'' goes back 20000 years.so we cannot say its true.i agree though he needs a fact check