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Hargobind Wrestling club

My fight blog attended the Hargobind International Wrestling Championships 2010, featuring Olympic freestyle wrestling tournament with world class competitors vying for medals and prize monies. This annual event attracts champion wrestlers from the US and Canada and around the world.

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The event is hosted in Surrey BC by the Hargobind Wrestling club. Hargobind is known for putting out world class Olympic freestyle wrestlers. Among the most well known wrestlers is Daniel Igali, with his Olympic Gold medal win for Canada at Sydney Australia in 2000 in the men’s 69kg freestyle division, his Commonwealth games wins, and his 116 consecutive wins while in university.

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Surrey BC is well known as a community where many Sikhs live, and the Hargobind Wrestling championships are held at the time of Diwali, where wrestling events are held traditionally to mark the festival. Guru Hargobind, I have learnt is the sixth of the ten gurus of the Sikh faith and had a love for wrestling. Hence the club is named in his honour. The championships also featured a traditional Punjabi performance.

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The Hargobind Championships are worth seeing because of it being a world class event, and also because its part of a cultural experience. My own interest is in training in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, freestyle wrestling includes techniques like takedowns, that are at the boundaries of our sport. When we spar in BJJ, we start primarily from our knees, even though tournament Gi BJJ starts from standing. But I have learnt since that sports like Judo and Freestyle wrestling are the better sports to learn takedown techniques. For sure, wrestlers at the calibre at Hargobind Championships know their takedowns. They are all quick, snappy takedown artists, quick at shifting levels, upturning their opponent, and scoring points in the process. The wrestlers in the lower weight divisions are the fastest, but the bigger wrestlers are only a little bit less so. Wrestlers at Hargobind were also there to compete for $35,000 in cash prizes. The tournament culminated with challenge matches set to! bhangra drumming, where lighter divisions would challenge the heavier ones, setting greater agility against greater strength, for $1000, $2000, and $5000 for a win.

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