pankration
Sign in to savePankration (; ) was an unarmed combat sport introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC. The athletes used boxing and wrestling techniques but also others, such as kicking, holds, joint locks, and chokes on the ground, making it similar to modern mixed martial arts. The term comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning "all of power" ().
Key facts
- Martial art.name
- Modern pankration
- Martial art.image
- Pankration panathenaic amphora BM VaseB610.jpg
- Martial art.imagecaption
- Two athletes competing in the pankration. Panathenaic amphora, made in Athens in 332–331 BC, during the archonship of Niketes. From Capua.
- Martial art.famus pract
- Angel Lee, Bob Sapp, Matt the failure Hume,
- Martial art.focus
- Hybrid
- Martial art.country
- Ancient Greece
- Martial art.olympic
- No
- Martial art.hardness
- Full contact
- Martial art.creator
- Savvidis Lazaros
- Martial art.parenthood
- Mixed martial arts, ancient pankration
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34 sectionsContents
- History
- Structure of the ancient competition
- Techniques
- Fighting stances
- Striking techniques
- Punch and other hand strikes
- Strikes with the legs
- Straight kick to the stomach
- Locking techniques
- Arm locks
- Single shoulder lock (overextension)
- Single arm bar (elbow lock)
- Arm bar – shoulder lock combination
- Leg locks
- Choking techniques
- Tracheal grip choke
- Tracheal dig using the thumb
- Choke from behind with the forearm
- Throws and takedowns
- Heave from a reverse waist lock
- Heave from a waist lock following a sprawl
- Heave from a waist lock from behind
- Strategy and tactics
- Positioning in the {{lang|grc-Latn|skamma}} ({{lang|grc|σκάμμα}} "pit")
- Remaining standing versus going to the ground
- Offensive versus reactive fighting
- Identifying and exploiting the weak side of the opponent
- Preparation and practice
- Ancient Olympic pankration champions and famous pankratiasts
- Modern pankration
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Pankration (; ) was an unarmed combat sport introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC. The athletes used boxing and wrestling techniques but also others, such as kicking, holds, joint locks, and chokes on the ground, making it similar to modern mixed martial arts. The term comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning "all of power" ().
==History== thumb|A statue of Agias, son of Acnonius, and winner of the pankration in three Panhellenic Games. This statue occupies Position III of the [[ex voto of Daochos. Height: 2 metres (6 feet 7 inches). ]] According to Greek legend, it was said that the heroes Heracles and Theseus invented pankration as a result of using both wrestling and boxing in their confrontations with opponents. Theseus was said to have used pankration to defeat Cercyon of Eleusis in a wrestling match, as one of his labours on the sea route to Athens, as well as the minotaur in the labyrinth. Heracles too was often depicted in ancient artworks subduing the Nemean lion using pankration. In this context, pankration was also referred to as or ( or ), meaning "total combat", from , , "all-" or "total", and , , "matter". The term is older, and would later become used less than the term .