Canarian Wrestling

Doing this blog, we learned something more about our Islands. A sport, played many years ago. But the sport still beeing played, is a tradition. We love traditions, so we love this sport. Is very interesting how a sport can be played for many centurys without beeing forgotten.

Juan Barbuzano Martín Juan, is considered one of the best canarian wrestlers in all the times. He was born the 16th May 1945 in El Hierro. He is 1.80 meterstall and he weights 108 kg. He won a few times the all Canary Islands league even been himself against a hole team. He is called the "Pollo del Isora". He is also a judo trainer and a canarian wrestling trainer. 

The equipment of the Canarian Wrestling is very simple. Is called "Ropa de brega" and is just a t-shirt tucked in a rolled up short. The shirt can only have the name of the club, some publicity and the badge of the Federation.

The Canarian Wrestling is a sport where you try to make your opponent touch the floor with whatever part of the body excepting the sole. When you try to throw down your opponent, you use holds, called "mañas". Here you have some of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR1RjIgCtwc Is a sport where the honor and the nobility is important, because the respect to the opponent and helping him to stand up after defeating him, is very important.

You can practise the Canarian Wrestling during the hole year, because is a sport practised indoor. The league is controlated by the Federation, who gives the referees for the matchs and controls all the rules during the competition.

We can practise Canarian Wrestling in the sand of the beach, in a zone where the land is not too hard and in a "tatami" floor. The Canarian Wrestling is directed by a Federation, so if you want to practise this sport you can contact with local teams. In my zone (Las Galletas), the nearest team is the Chijafe fighting club, who has fields in Cabo Blanco and Valle San Lorenzo (Arona). 4

Hello Internet! :) We are students of 4th of ESO of the high school of Las Galletas. We are Andrés, Pablo G and Luis, and we are going to post about  the Canarian Wrestling, a sport made in Canarias. We hope you to enjoy our investigation! The Canarian Wrestling is a sport where you try to make your opponent touch the floor with whatever part of the body excepting the sole.