Yagli and Karakudjak are similar to Freestyle which probably has contributed to the great international wrestling success of the Turks.
In Yagli there are no weight classes, time limits, or boundary lines, and competition is usually held in a grassy field.
In Turkish "ya" means oil and "gures" means wrestling, so YagliGures (commonly shortened to Yagli) means "oily wrestling." While wrestlers may grip their opponent's trousers, the oil must make for a very slippery match.
The Turkish national sport, "Yagli Gures"(Oil wrestling), was first held in Japan, at this place in the spring in 2004.
First was an explanation of the history of YagliGures by the introducer (the interpreter was a Turkish ice cream salesman), the releasing of a rally schedule in Turkey, then the wrestlers dripped olive oil on their whole bodies and began to march, which the flute and drum corps played to.
Traditionally, YagliGures is done on the grasslands during the summer.
Kirkpinar'in ünlü pehlivanlari, bir yagli güres hayrani olan Fransiz tekstilci Pierre Guerchon'un 'Türkiye'nin Baspehlivanlari' adli revüsüyle nihayet sahneye adim atiyorlar.
Pierre Guerchon, yagli güresle ilgili olarak da Kökleri antik çaglara uzanan, günümüzde de Türklerin milli sporu olan yagli güres, Türk erkegine özgü cesaret, zekilik ve kuvvet özelliklerini yüceltiyor dedi.
Türkiye'nin simgesel sporlarindan olan yagli güresi önce Fransa, sonra da Avrupa kamuoyuna tanitmayi amaçliyoruz.
here i am klibinde yagli guresten estetik egstanteneler yakalanmistir.
bide gures denince aklima direk"ata sporumuz" tanimlamasi gelmektedir.
gures ile yagligures farkli olusumlardir gures daha cok spor dali olarak tum dunyada izlenirken amerikan guresi(yalan) ve sumo guresi(hadi be!) gibi sekilleri vardir ama yagli guresin ise tarihi daha eskiye dayanir ve 40 pinar deyisi bu ovada 40 yigidin gurese gurese olmesi sebebiyledir
YagliGures wrestling—Turkey’s national sport—is not the sort of wrestling Hulk Hogan or Jesse “The Body” Ventura engage in.
When he was younger, Atas was a fierce competitor, making it onto the national Gures team.
(Atas claims that he was once challenged to wrestle a bear with his bare hands, which he did successfully.) As he got older, he worked in the Gures organization in his hometown.
The muscled glory of traditional Turkish oiled wrestling is captured in the MokumTV documentary ´Most Macho of All Sports´.
Yagli Güres (oil-coated wrestling) is unique and highly esthetic.
The history links straight back to a millennium BC, but the KIRKPINAR as we know it now, started in 1360 AC as a means of whipping the Ottoman troops into shape.
Every year at the large stadium at the town of Edirne, on the Greek/Turkish border, a centuries-old tradition takes place.
YagliGures, or oil-coated wrestling, has been taking place in the town since the 16th century and the event draws over 1,000 participants to wrestle against each other in a sudden-death competition.
While the matches were originally devised as a way to train troops, the event has become a national pastime and draws in many spectators every year, from the avid wrestling fan to the curious traveller.
This isn't the start of a mass cookery display - the oil is an essential ingredient in one of the world's longest- running sporting events.
The stadium, where thick grass softly brushes the ankles, is the venue of the annual Kirkpinaryagligures (oil wrestling) tournament on the outskirts of Edirne - about 250 kilometers west of Istanbul - once the Ottoman Empire's capital and now close to the borders of Greece and Bulgaria.
A popular sport - especially in villages throughout Anatolia, usually as part of a harvest celebration (I had previously researched yagligurestournaments during the Uluborlu cherry festival and the Alapli walnut festival) - the tournament at Kirkpinar is the largest and considered to be the national championships.
Kirkpinar Wrestling Info Page(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This is a page dedicated to the sport of Kirkpinar, also known as "YagliGures", which has been a national sport in the country of Turkey for over 600 years!!
Ledgend has it that when soldiers came upon a field,to pass the time,they wrestled with each other.
The festival is usually four days and is held in the region of Edirne.
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Anatolia - Turkey Regions - Marmara Region - Edirne(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A pity for the local tourist industry, but a merit for preserving the Turkish character of the town.
This is the town where Turkish Oil Wrestling (YagliGures) takes place.
Hundreds of wrestlers are oiled with olive oil and the spectacle takes place the end of June-begining of July.
Turkey has wrestling as well, Greco-Roman, free-style and the most unusual of all, yagligures, or "grease" wrestling in which men coat themselves with olive oil and try to get a hard-to-maintain grip on their opponent in order to pull and keep him down.
Wakanohana I, the former head of the Japanese Sumo Association, made a worldwide tour in the mid-'90s in an attempt to discover similarities between wrestling in foreign lands and sumo, with a stop in Turkey to observe yagligures.
And home-grown amateur sumo teams have sprung up in numerous (and sometimes unlikely) countries, among them the United Kingdom and the United States, sending contestants each year to the world amateur sumocompetition in Tokyo.
The History of Sumo - Sumo - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Martial arts similar to sumo have been performed around the world since long ago.
Some that remain today are ssireum in South Korea, boke in Mongolia, and yagligures in Turkey.
In Japan, figurines of sumowrestlers have been unearthed dating back to between the third and seventh centuries, and the sport is mentioned in the myths and legends of the Kojiki and Nihonshoki (Japanese history books written in the eighth century).
Perhaps the most famous Turkish sportsman is Naim Suleymanoglu, also known as "Pocket Hercules", who is a three time Olympic Gold Medalist in weightlifting.
Turks are also famous for their traditional form of wrestling known as "oil wrestling" or "yagligures." Contestants grease their bodies with olive oil to minimize friction.
The result is wrestlingmatch that is entirely dependent on technique and strength.
JAPANIMATION BEARS(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A Japanese and English-language site about the oil wrestling (YagliGures) that takes place at Edirne.
Featuring all about Turkey's Edirne and YagliGures, this page offers easy to read and understand text.
It just opened this March, but with the degree of fullness in its galleries and picture tutorials and the like, it's chockfull of content that I want to browse through once.
Wrestlers wear leather pants just like those shown in the miniature painting above, and cover themselves with olive oil before the matches.
Learn more about "kirkpinar" or "oil wrestling - yagligures" (the Turkish national sport) and learn about a tournament and its history of over 650 years.
More about the long history of wrestling in Turkey and Persia going back thousands of years is told about here.
By far the most developed Martial Art in the Middle East is grappling.
The grappling arts are called “Moussarra” in Arabic, in Persian they are called “Koshti” and in Turkish “Yagli Gures”.The history of grappling arts in the Middle East goes back many centuries and is deeply ingrained into the society and culture of the people.
The techniques are usually very simple and easy to learn and execute even by smaller fighters.
Tourists keen to catch a glimpse of some well-oiled torsos and tight leather trousers should fly to Turkey for the annual yagligures festival, otherwise known as the oil wrestling festival of Kirkpinar.
Held just outside the historic town of Erdine in western Turkey, from June 23rd to 26th the yearly championship is both the oldest wrestlingtournament in the world and the national sport of Turkey, attracting over 1000 competitors each year.