Beach Wrestling

I was asked what beach wrestling is. It’s real simple, according to FILA rules, it’s wrestling in 6-metre circle filled with a 30-centimeter layer of fine sand and the idea is to throw your opponent. There’s no ground wrestling but you can go on your knees and touch your hand on the floor.  The bout is either last 2 or 3- minutes, and you win by a fall (throwing the opponent on to both shoulders), or by 2 takedowns (throwing the opponent to the floor) or forces outs (pushing them out of the area).

If the match goes the distance, highest score wins or if they both scored, last score wins.  If there ain’t any score it goes to a 1-minute overtime and first score wins… so be aggressive!

If you’re a girl you wear a swim suit or a bikini (not a thong or one your tits are going to fall out of… it’s wrestling, not lezzing). Guys wear tight trunks but no freaking thongs. 

But that’s just FILA competition rules, but FILA don’t mind you wrestling on grass, mud and even snow… which is great fun by the way. I was doing that last week, I think they should make it a winter sport. Snow wrestling is really cool.

You can also wrestle 3 x 2-minutes periods instead of 1 or wrestle until there is a fall or two takedowns or forceouts. You can also do Greco-Roman beach wrestling (no tripping or grabbing below the waist), but my favourite wrestling on the beach ain’t FILA, its S’Istrumpa( (traditional Sardinian wrestling). What can I say, I’m a traditional girl.