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physics' polite way of saying you both want the ground to win.
means To grip and struggle with something or someone, either physically wrestling for control or wrestling mentally with a hard problem.
from From the Old French 'grappil,' a little hook or grapnel — the iron claw a ship would fling to catch and hold another vessel. That clawing word traces back to a root meaning 'hook' or 'clasp,' a cousin of 'grab' and 'grasp.' So before two people grappled, two ships did: one hull dragging the other close enough to fight.
- origin
- From Old French grappil, a small grappling hook
- oldest art
- Wrestling depicted in 15,000-year-old cave paintings
- no strikes
- Pure leverage, position, and stubborn human geometry
- grappling hook
- Romans flung them to board enemy ships
- olympic since
- Wrestling featured in the very first ancient Games
judo — olympic martial art founded in japan 1882, uses grappling throws and holds
wrestling — combat sport in ancient greece and rome, still competitive in olympics and colleges
mixed martial arts — ufc and other promotions combine grappling with striking since 1993
sumo — japanese traditional grappling sport dating back centuries, still major cultural event