Kids Pankration Video

**socalpankration** · Posted On: 12/27/2007 9:57pm

This is from the Orange County vs Riverside County Cadet (11-13 yrs) Division All Star Dual Team Event. Both these kids were Pankration Champions from the Nov. 4th Full Bred Championships.

The event featured 5 of the top OC kids vs 5 of the top Riverside County Kids in all the Cadet Weight classes.

ENJOY:

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**Airman Kai** · Posted On: 12/27/2007 11:08pm

Awesome.

**tsname** · Posted On: 12/28/2007 1:27am

That was pretty cool, and the scissor take down, awesome.

**Zothos** · Posted On: 12/28/2007 1:27am

Awesome vids socalpankration. Can somebody please tell me why the **** Pankration isn't an Olympic sport? It would be friggin' sweet!

**plakat** · Posted On: 12/28/2007 2:20am

if u ask me i cant see the diff between this and MMA(UFC, pride)..........anyway AWESOME FIGHT!!!

**Zothos** · Posted On: 12/28/2007 4:08am

Well, pankration was the first all-encompassing fighting system in the known world. It was essentially ancient MMA. I believe it's Greek for "All Powers" or something similar.

**socalpankration** · Posted On: 12/28/2007 11:23am

Originally Posted by Zothos

Awesome vids socalpankration. Can somebody please tell me why the **** Pankration isn't an Olympic sport? It would be friggin' sweet!

We are trying. They had a Pankration Demo in the 2004 Athens games but the Greeks used a pre-arranged sparring type routine instead of actual competition.

Last year FILA, the Olympic and International governing body for Wrestling, adopted Pankration as an Official Sport. We are now working on getting it added as a disipline of Wrestling.

I have no idea if it will happen or not but we now have the annual FILA World Pankration Championships. Last year it was in Turkey, this year it will be in either Portugal or Albania.

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**DdlR** · Posted On: 12/28/2007 11:42am

The scissor takedown at 1.24 was a thing of beauty.

**The Question** · Posted On: 12/28/2007 1:37pm

Damn fine. Damn fine. Those guys should work on their striking though.

**heyguy** · Posted On: 12/28/2007 1:43pm

Originally Posted by socalpankration

We are trying. They had a Pankration Demo in the 2004 Athens games but the Greeks used a pre-arranged sparring type routine instead of actual competition.

Last year FILA, the Olympic and International governing body for Wrestling, adopted Pankration as an Official Sport. We are now working on getting it added as a disipline of Wrestling.

I have no idea if it will happen or not but we now have the annual FILA World Pankration Championships. Last year it was in Turkey, this year it will be in either Portugal or Albania.

www.fightleague.org

I believe i've mentioned this to you in another forum, I wish you had some tournaments here in the northeast/mass area.