Breathtaking Oil Wrestling

Oil Wrestling
Wrestling is another fighting sport like boxing, it has been part of Olympics for about a century, and it has become very popular in every part of the world. In a typical wrestling match two unarmed wrestlers fight each other using different techniques in order to gain control over their opponent wrestler. The techniques used by these wrestlers are holding, locking, clinching and leverage but the wrestlers avoid those techniques that may lead to serious injuries and permanent damages. There are different types of wrestling and different kinds of wrestling matches at the present time. Mud wrestling and oil wrestling are some popular types of wrestling.

Oil wrestling is very famous in different parts of the world especially in Turkey and oil wrestling tournaments are held in different parts of Turkey all around the year, especially in summer, wrestlers from every part of Turkey gather in Kirkpinar for annual oil wrestling tournament that last for about three days. This annual tournament is held in order to determine the Baspehlivan and about 1000 wrestlers attend the tournament each year. This game has become a tradition in Edirne province. The wrestlers of this sport are completely covered from head to foot with oil and during the match only wear a pair of trousers made from water buffalo leather. This leather trouser is about 13 kilograms in weight and these leather trousers are specially designed for oil wrestling matches and are known as Kispet. It is a kind of sport that is passed from grand father to father and from father to son and so on.

Kispet are trousers on which most of the games related to oil wrestling are made. All the wrestlers endeavor on putting their hands go all the way through the Kispet of their opponents as much as they can. But this task may seem impossible if the Kispet is tied in a very well manner making it not possible for the wrestler to put his hand or arm through it. Only he who is the pehlivan can accomplish putting his hand through his foe's Kispet and can maintain him in a proper way and also hold from the ebb of his pants or say paca. And this is how one wrestler can beat the other wrestler known as his opponent with the game called paca kazik. In case of a fight between an older wrestler and a younger one, the latter is supposed to kiss the hands of the former one if the latter manages to win the match.

If you are really interested in oil wrestling then you can search the internet for more information about oil wrestling. There are a lot of websites containing information about oil wrestling, types of matches, rules of oil wrestling, history of oil wrestling, moves and techniques of oil wrestling and information about great oil wrestlers. If you want to watch an oil wrestling match you can buy videos from different websites, some oil wrestling videos are also available for free from some websites. All you have to do is just download them. There are also a large number of oil wrestling pictures available on the internet along with information about the wrestlers and moves.