Cornish Wrestling - Tradition, History & Heritage - Cawley Champions

Cornish Wrestling, a traditional Cornish sport, it's history so old that it's lost in the mysts of time. Passed on from father to son, brother to brother this ancient sport is a un-broken living link with our ancestors.

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Sports

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• cornish
• wrestling
• gerry
• ashley
• cawley
• champions
• cornwall
• kernow
• wrasslin
• wrestler
• interceltic
• breton
• celtic
• games
• sport

[shtfrun2thehills]

 Must you be Cornish to compete?

[NaturalBushcraft]

@shtfrun2thehills No - Anyone can compete :)

[NaturalBushcraft]

@shtfrun2thehills No not at all, anyone can come and compete.

[shtfrun2thehills]

@NaturalBushcraft Awesome, thanks for reply('s), I live in Spain but I'm English and when we move back to the U.K I'm hoping to go to Cornwall as I love the place. Have an interest in mma and more traditional wrestling and fighting/competing and this looks like a lot of fun, bit like Rugby; brutal yet civilised? Are there weight classes or not?

[NaturalBushcraft]

@shtfrun2thehills Yes there are different weight categories, see the Events section on the official Cornish Wrestling website, it will give you an idea of the different categories that are competed for. We've just returned from Britany where we have had a bit of an Interceltic competition in Guningamp, wrestling Cornish, Breton/Gouren & Back-hold, there were a team of Spaniards there.

[NaturalBushcraft]

@shtfrun2thehills If you are on Twitter follow me @ashleycawley even if your not on Twitter you will still be able to view the page & photos from my trip, go to Twitter dot com forward-slash ashleycawley

[monkbag]

Scroll forward to about 4.14 in for the old footage. Classic jacket wurk!

[mattdoughty1]

love cornish wrestling

[LANDnLIFE]

Reminds me of glima-wrestling of Scandinavia. Best regards

[khaniu]

realy nice ashely. grate vid grate music 5/5