he great nomad wrestling is the freestyle united belt wrestling of the nomads.
Belt wrestling is one of the oldest forms of wrestling. It is present in the culture of many nations of the world. Descriptions of wrestling competitions, when two athletes are tested for strength and compete in dexterity and endurance, are found in ancient books and epics of many nations of the world. Due to the simplicity of perception and entertainment reasons, the belt wrestling is preserved in its original form to the present day in the traditional culture of ethnic groups and nations of the world.
The rules for the nomad wrestling are extremely simple, and the interventions of the judges are minimized, in the wrestling there was only one rule: for the victory it is necessary to throw the opponent to the ground, no points were taken into account. Therefore, the competitions allow to conduct a clean and fair wrestling and reveal the absolute winner. The nomad wrestling is carried out without taking into account the weight of wrestlers (Openweight). After all, in ancient times there were no scales, and in the competition, the greatest bogatyrs were the most successful. In them only the absolute winner was revealed without defining the second, third, etc. places, because then the wrestling used to be conducted on the principle: "The great winner is one, all the rest are equal (losers)!".
In the nomad wrestling, only the winners of other types of wrestling take part, who in the competition represent their nation, the country and their type of martial arts.
The basis of the nomad wrestling is built on these principles: the wrestling is conducted with the capturing of the rival's belt, any actions that correspond to the high moral spirit of the heroes are allowed, any throw brings victory. The rules of the nomad wrestling, the types of tricks, the procedure for determining the winners were borrowed from the rules of traditional forms of struggle of the Mongolian, Tatar, Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Russian, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Japanese and other ethnic groups and nations of the world.
The winner of the competition in the nomad wrestling is declared the Great Fighter, His name is written in golden letters in the stylized ancient book of the winners of the World Nomadic Games.
All the procedures for conducting competitions for the wrestling of nomads correspond to the traditions and culture of nomadic nations, the competition is held in the same format as many centuries ago. In those distant times, when the two warring nations met, the outcome of the battle, in some cases, was decided not in a mass battle with a large number of victims, but in the wrestling of the giants against each other. Each wrestler entered the arena in national dress, he welcomed his rival, thus paying tribute to his people. Then folk akyns (poets-improvisers), supporting the morale, glorifying their warrior-fighter, glorified his feats in the form of songs, dances and legends.
