Wrestling in Thanet, Kent

Here at Alchemy Martial Arts, we offer Wrestling classes throughout the week, welcoming all levels and ages. Whether you’re a beginner looking to start your martial arts journey or an experienced practitioner aiming to sharpen your skills, our Wrestling classes provide a supportive and challenging environment.

What is Wrestling?

Wrestling is one of the oldest and most versatile forms of combat sport, focusing on grappling techniques such as throws, pins, and joint locks. It is both a competitive sport and an effective method of self-defense, emphasizing strength, technique, and strategy.

Wrestling stands as both a martial art and a combat sport, involving close-quarters grappling with opponents to gain positional advantage through a variety of throws and techniques, all within a defined ruleset. Techniques in wrestling encompass a spectrum of grappling maneuvers, including clinch fighting, throws, takedowns, joint locks, pins, and other holds. Over time, numerous wrestling techniques have been integrated into various martial arts, combat sports, and military training systems. While wrestling serves as genuine competitive sport, professional wrestling diverges into athletic performance and theatrics.

The sport manifests in diverse competitive forms, such as freestyle, Greco-Roman, judo, sambo, folkstyle, catch, shoot, luta livre, submission, sumo, pehlwani, shuai jiao, and others. Its roots trace back to ancient times, with wrestling appearing as an event in the ancient Olympic Games during the 18th Olympiad in 708 BC. Wrestling encompasses a wide array of styles with distinct rules, spanning both traditional historic methods and modern adaptations. The term “wrestling” itself finds mention in late Old English as “wræstlunge,” interpreted as “palestram” in gloss.

Wrestling Timetable

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Friday

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Meet Our Wrestling Coach

Matt Doucette

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Coach

Join Our Wrestling Classes Today!

Experience the benefits of Wrestling at Alchemy Martial Arts. Enhance your physical fitness, learn effective self-defense techniques, and become part of a vibrant martial arts community.

Contact us to schedule your first class and start your journey with Wrestling today!

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