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#184 FILA and USA Wrestling’s Gi and No-Gi Competitions |
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Written by Fightworks Podcast
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Monday, 19 October 2009 |
FILA,
the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles, is the
governing body of international amateur wrestling. You may have heard
in the past couple of years that FILA has begun holding submission
grappling competitions in addition to organizing the world’s major
amateur wrestling events. Noteworthy Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitors
like Ricky Lundell and Felicia Oh have competed at these events in recent years, traveling internationally to represent the United States on the world stage.
Now FILA, and by extension USA Wrestling, has begun holding
competitions that are for the most part Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournaments
with a few rule tweaks that reflect their organizations’ origin in
wrestling. This week on The FightWorks Podcast we speak with Gary
Abbott, a spokesman for USA Wrestling who will explain his
organization’s entry into such events as well as what it means for our
favorite combat sport. (If you are interested in representing the
United States at FILA’s next world championship in either gi or no-gi,
the trials are this coming weekend in Arizona!)
In this episode co-host Dan will also give his long-awaited(?)
recipe for his muscle-building smoothie for those cutting weight prior
to tournaments, in addition to our normal review of the most recent BJJ Poll here on thefightworkspodcast.com.
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