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The Art of Wrestling
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781783318353
Publisher: Naval & Military Pr
Published: Feb 17 2021
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Content includes:
Introductory.
Wrestling on the Feet.
Tips for the Beginner.
Tips for Instructors.
Suggested Courses of Half-hour Lessons.
Standard Weights.
Rules of Wrestling on the Feet.
Simple Competitions.
Wrestling Mats.
George Frederick William de Relwyskow (18 June 1887 - 1942) was an English sport wrestler who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics for Great Britain.
Born in Kensington in 1887, the son of White Russian immigrants, de Relwyskow took up wrestling as a means of keeping fit while a student in London training as an artist and designer. By 1907 he had won thirty-five open competitions in Great Britain and won the English amateur championships at lightweight and middleweight in 1907 and 1908. Because of his success he was selected to represent Great Britain in the 1908 Olympics held in London.
On the outbreak of the First World War de Relwyskow returned to Britain from South America where he was on a wrestling tour to enlist in the Army. He served as a gymnastic and bayonet-fighting trainer, and served for a period with the Australian infantry. In France he trained soldiers in the use of unarmed combat. In October 1918 de Relwyskow was based at Aldershot as a Royal Army Physical Training Corps instructor in the Army system of wrestling, a system he created. In 1924 he was appointed trainer to the British Olympic Games team in the 1924 Olympics held in Paris.
He enlisted again at the start of World War II and served as an instructor in Unarmed Combat and Silent Killing with the Special Operations Executive (SOE). After serving for a period as an Instructor to the SOE School in Canada - the Special Training School (STS) 103 (which was also known as Camp X), de Relwyskow returned to Britain before being sent to the Far East.
Relwyskow died at his Leeds home in 1942. He left a wife, Clara, and sons Douglas and George. Douglas was a professional wrestling referee, whose own son, also called Douglas (grandson of the original George), became a regular face on televised professional wrestling in the UK under the name Barry Douglas. The younger George de Relwyskow pursued a career in professional wrestling cut short by an injury in World War II. He later became a successful wrestling promoter and member of Joint Promotions and the promotional business was continued after his death in 1980 by his daughter Ann.
George de Relwyskow was the youngest winner of an Olympic gold medal for wrestling, a record that was to stand for almost seventy years until the 20-year-old Soviet Suren Nalbandyan won the Greco-Roman lightweight title in 1976.
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