Also called " submission wrestling " or " submission grappling ", this discipline and sport consists of controlling the opponent without using striking, in standing position or on the ground after a throw.

In mixed martial arts competitions, no time count is given after a knockdown, as the sport allows submission grappling as well as ground and pound.

Many athletes come to the sport from a background in judo, freestyle wrestling, or other grappling sports such as Sambo.

At the time, pro wrestling consisted primarily of mat grappling ; and while the sport had flourished a decade earlier under Frank Gotch, the fans had since grown tired of the painfully deliberate pace of the bouts.

Critics saw in him both the strength of the old school of wrestling and the skill of the new, “ as agile as a cat in his manoeuvers ” and having “ the grappling sport down to such science that he had assumed a rank all by himself .”

Submission wrestling ( also known as submission fighting, submission grappling, sport grappling, or simply as No-Gi ) or Combat wrestling ( in Japan ), is a formula of competition and a general term describing the aspect of martial arts and combat sports that focus on clinch and ground fighting with the aim of obtaining a submission using submission holds.

Wrestling is a form of combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds.

Sanshou is composed of Chinese martial arts applications including most aspects of combat including striking and grappling, however when Sanshou was developed as a sport, restrictions were made for safety reasons as well as to promote it as a non-violent sport.

Gracie popularized Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and revolutionized mixed martial arts with his results contributing to the movement towards grappling and cross-training in the sport.

In the Asian tradition, mixed martial arts fighters with long hair also often sport the cornrow hairstyle during matches to protect the hair from being ripped off while grappling.

However, while Haystacks Calhoun ’ s gargantuan size contributed to his wrestling celebrity, he was determined not to be stereotyped as a carnival attraction ; he was revolutionary in that he was the sport ’ s first super-heavyweight who actually possessed a genuine repertoire of grappling maneuvers.

Modern mixed martial arts competitions are similar to the historic Greek Olympic sport of pankration and allow a wide range of both striking and grappling techniques.

Joint locks are commonly featured in all forms of grappling, whether it be in martial arts, self-defense, combat sport or hand to hand combat application.

Masters ' Diving events are normally conducted in age-groups of 5 or 10 years, and attract competitors of a wide range of ages and experience ( many, indeed, are newcomers to the sport ); the oldest competitor in a Masters ' Diving Championship was Viola Krahn, who at the age of 101 was the first person in any sport, male or female, anywhere in the world, to compete in an age-group of 100 + years in a nationally organized competition.

The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a " hop, bound and jump ": the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.

Porsche started to evolve a line of sports prototypes from the late 1950s ; noted for their toughness and reliability they started to win in races of attrition such as the Targa Florio and as they grew bigger ( via the Porsche 910 to the Porsche 908 and finally the Porsche 917 ) the Stuttgart marque became first a competitor for overall wins and then came to dominate sports car racing – both they and Mercedes have made intermittent returns to the top level of the sport through the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

The opening of a shopping mall in the centre of the city, as well as new sport and cultural infrastructure, and the construction of many residential apartment buildings have made Ninove a growing competitor for nearby Aalst and an ideal living-place for many commuters who work in nearby Brussels.

The second generation G20 was marketed as a competitor to European entry-level luxury sport sedans, but it now weighed more than the first generation version.

They are an organisation set up by a past competitor of Robot Wars to continue the sport of robot combat in the UK.

The channel, once the traditional home of television sport, has since lost the rights to most of the world's main sporting events, including the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games and All Blacks test matches to pay television competitor Sky.

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In a sport or game, sudden death ( or a sudden-death round ) is a form of competition where play ends as soon as one competitor is ahead of the others, with that competitor becoming the winner.

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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Athletics ( sport ) competitor

Before the introduction of the ZX-14 ( ZZR1400 ), the ZX-12R was Kawasaki's flagship sport bike and a competitor to the Suzuki Hayabusa.

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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Athletics ( sport ) competitor

| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Athletics ( sport ) competitor

Freeda George Foreman ( born October 16, 1976 ) is a former American competitor in the sport of Women's boxing, and the daughter of former two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion George Foreman.

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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Athletics ( sport ) competitor

However, with the elimination of commercial sponsorship, less money came into the sport and over time this had an impact on the degree to which cars were able to be prepared by the average competitor.

The Ventura SJ was marketed as an American rendition of a Euro-style luxury sport sedan that Pontiac created with the larger mid-sized Grand Am in 1973, as well as a competitor to the new-for-1975 Ford Granada and Mercury Monarch, both marketed as luxury compacts designed to compete with the more expensive imports such as Audi and Mercedes.

Byrne became interested in motor racing at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, firstly as a competitor and later the technical aspects of the sport.

Rodeos have long been a popular competitor and spectator sport in Australia, but were not run on an organized basis until the 1880s.

It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.

Today the recreational boating scene is awash with heartening statistics which prove the enormous growth of that sport.

A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.

And is the sport really important??

Assistive technology may be used in adaptive sports, where an existing sport is modified to enable players with a disability to participate ; or, assistive technology may be used to invent completely new sports with athletes with disabilities exclusively in mind.

thumbAmerica's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball.

The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary from a particular field of study, hobby, job, sport, etc.

Australian football is a sport rich in tradition and Australian cultural references, especially surrounding the rituals of gameday for players, officials and supporters.

Australian rules is the national sport of Nauru.

Abadeh's main sport is Football, like the rest of the country.

Bandy is the biggest sport in the city.

The sport is generally geared around fall weather and playing in cold elements.

In the court's words: " For better or worse, being intentionally thrown at is a fundamental part and inherent risk of the sport of baseball.

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players.

Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League ; Cuba's West League and East League.

Basketball is a team sport, the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points while following a set of rules.

Competitive basketball is primarily an indoor sport played on a carefully marked and maintained basketball court, but less regulated variations are often played outdoors in both inner city and remote areas.

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players ( singles ) or two opposing pairs ( doubles ), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net.

It is also a technical sport, requiring good motor coordination and the development of sophisticated racquet movements.

The sport is related to ball badminton, which originated in Tamil Nadu, and is similar to Hanetsuki which originated in Japan.

The Badminton World Federation ( BWF ) is the internationally recognized governing body of the sport.

Among the tournaments in this series is the venerable All-England Championships, first held in 1900, which was once considered the unofficial world championships of the sport.