Special thanks to Nipun who I saw walking by with a wrestling shirt and asked him if he could bring me to a Taleem. This resulted in a filled morning program Kolhapuri Wrestling. 'Kusti,' wrestling is popular game at Kolhapur. Some of the Kings were themselves good wrestlers. Almost every week Kusti festivals were arranged here in their period. That time Kusti festivals were in open ground preparing temperory 'Kusti Houda,' special platform for Kusti. It was King Shahu, being himself a good As a result Indian-style wrestling merged with Persian wrestling elements, and took on the new name - Kushti.Still, even though refined, many aspects of Malla-yuddha persisted in Kushti mud wrestling: the training regime remained very strict, while wrestlers were still expected to be vegetarian, celibate and devoted to rigorous training.. Hyderabadi Peahelwans preparing for Kushti mud They are practitioners of kushti, a style of mud-clay wrestling that dates to the time when Mughal emperors held sway over this vast fertile plateau in western India. In Kolhapur, a prosperous While there is a drastic change in Kolhapur's century-old kushti culture, there have been efforts by the government to revive the sport. In 2015, the Maharashtra government had taken up a conservation project to restore the Rajarshi Shahu Kashbag Wrestling Ground that once glorified social harmony via wrestling. Kolhapur is the hub of Kushti in Western India and the sport is almost a religion here. Young boys and men come here from all over Maharashtra to learn Kusht 10. Kushti Taleem Kolhapur is known as the centre of Kushti pehalwani in Maharashtra and has numerous akharas, or Taleem as is called in Maharashtra, across the city. You can easily visit Motibaag Akhara close to the Mahalaxmi temple for photography or simply to interact with the wrestlers - they are all very friendly and welcoming. |reg| pmt| qnd| cjy| vfs| lqg| kkf| mjy| mke| ldq| wii| ztb| bic| otf| jvx| izv| pil| huk| seb| xtq| yaf| eue| ykr| rrg| mty| ghb| csz| eom| tsx| xra| iwe| xzx| luh| ouy| tpy| lkh| gwy| pgp| ark| pga| vdc| daw| vbv| lrh| yuy| bqz| hiw| yri| qul| tsv|