The fighting, body to body, that unites taken, throws, levers and which is intended to subdue the opponent on the ground has very ancient origin. In many parts of the world is possible to find variations of style of wrestling, in India the traditional wrestling called Malla-Yuddha.
Athletes train in a center without comfort, in conditions very distant from our own modern western gym that bring out Olympic champions with really outdates equipment.
The westler preparing to fight in a ring of clay,(arena or Akhara) wearing only a loincloth. Start a grueling fight melee in the clay, with outlets and levers the two bodies becoming one, hair and sweaty bodies are covered with clay, almost to not make them see and breathe, muscle tension It is an extreme limit and the meeting goes on till the complete submission of the opponent.
This fight is probably, in all its variants, the most 'ancient method of unarmed combat used by humans.
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Malla Yuddha - The ancient indian Wrestling (Series)
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Born June 25, 1983, son of art, shows a propensity as a child and a great affinity with images and audio-visual arts, especially fascinated by photography, cinema and music. He starts taking his first photographs from the earliest memories. Around 16 years directs his photographic passion towards Reportage Social, thanks mainly to the numerous trips around the world undertaken with parents. Gradually located so their own style, in constant evolution, thanks to the chameleonic characteristic of his photographic language, mainly related to its different moods, characterized by the portrait in a social perspective, taken in natural environment, with the 'exclusive use of the available light without ever build or alter the story or 'image. Both black and white for the color applied in the digital postproduction of his photos, as "modus operandi", only the techniques used also in the darkroom. Various exhibition in international and Italian museum and gallery. Member of the Order of Journalists and for several years worked with the Graffiti Photography School and Graffiti Press Agency di Roma
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