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Replicating "The Wrestler", a famous Roman Statue.

Replicating There is a rather famous Roman reproduction of an Ancient Greek statue depicting combat wrestling (Pankration, in the old parlance): "The Wrestlers," modeled after a lost Greek original of the third century BCE.

This was my attempt to replicate the position depicted and explore it. It is somewhat foreign to a BJJ-minded player, as our objective would simply be to take the back and choke or land strikes while exerting some kind of head / neck control as well. But, perhaps due to some lost (or unknown to me) specificity or rules, or maybe just due to a different way of thinking about grappling, that was not reflected in the statue's content.

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