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Pankration is a Greek combat sport that originated in antiquity. During the ancient Olympic Games, nearly all strikes, including lethal ones, were allowed. Great Olympic champions of the time, such as Dorieus of Rhodes and Milo of Croton, left a lasting mark on history.
Recently, Pankration has been codified by the Greek government in hopes of it returning as an Olympic discipline. It is a very comprehensive sport, alternating between standing combat techniques, comparable to French boxing, and ground wrestling techniques. The fights are therefore highly varied, depending on the fighters’ tactics and strengths.
Today, Pankration still carries Hellenic traditions. For example, the salutations exchanged between the pankratiast and the instructor are still performed in Ancient Greek—a prime example of how modern Greek Pankration is linked to its ancient roots.
Recently, Pankration has been codified by the Greek government in hopes of it returning as an Olympic discipline. It is a very comprehensive sport, alternating between standing combat techniques, comparable to French boxing, and ground wrestling techniques. The fights are therefore highly varied, depending on the fighters’ tactics and strengths.
Today, Pankration still carries Hellenic traditions. For example, the salutations exchanged between the pankratiast and the instructor are still performed in Ancient Greek—a prime example of how modern Greek Pankration is linked to its ancient roots.
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00:00Thank you for listening.
03:01Great Olympic champions of the time made history, like Polydamas of Scotusa, who was an Olympic champion in 408 BC, or Milo of Croton.
03:23Bancrasian is a very complete discipline, as it allows both exchanges, standing with boxing, and on the ground for wrestling.
03:48The museum of the modern Olympic Games was built on the site of Olympia in 1961.
04:06Its founder is the Cretan Georgios Papastephanou Provatechis, art lover, philatelist, and sponsor of the Games.
04:16As a collector, Georgios brought together remarkable objects on the Olympics and sports in general.
04:26In 1964, this private museum became the property of the Greek Olympic Academy and has been modernized.
04:32It also has a fine collection of stamps and posters.
04:36The memory of the Olympic Games is written on the stones,
05:00where we can read the names of places where we can read the names of places where the games have been hosted as well as the names of different presidents of the Olympic Committee.
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05:34Greece has an area of 131,956.
06:041,5 of the country has more than 9,000 islands and isolates, on which about 200 are inhabited.
06:1980% of its territory is mountainous.
06:21Mount Olympus is the highest, at 2,917 meters above sea level.
06:34The Agora of Athens was, in ancient times, the main square of the city, a place of life
06:45where trade, politics, culture and economy thrived.
06:50This is definitely why Agora means assembly.
06:54It was also a sacred place.
06:58The construction of public buildings in the Agora lasted over 1,000 years.
07:03Until the 5th century, the Agora underwent several expansions.
07:28However, from the 6th century, its influence began to wane.
07:33Today, it is an important archaeological site located at the foot of the Acropolis.
07:38The Acropolis
07:41The Acropolis
07:43The Acropolis
08:13The Acropolis is a rocky plateau about 150 meters high with a flat top of 300 meters from east to west and 85 meters north to south.
08:27It is only accessible by a steep slope on the west side.
08:32In ancient times, it was used as a vast sanctuary for the worship of the goddess Athena and many other gods of Greek mythology.
08:57Dominating the skyline of the Acropolis, the Parthenon is a famous temple of ancient treasures and certainly why the Acropolis is currently one of the world's most visited tourist sites.
09:11The Acropolis was subjected to several wars that damaged buildings, including one in 1687 by the Venetians in which an explosion destroyed much of the Parthenon.
09:27The Parthenon is the first word, Kratos is the second word.
09:33Kratos means the whole, everything.
09:35Kratos means the one that governs almost everything, the one that rules everything.
09:41The one that rules everything.
09:42That's why the ancient Greeks named the God of Zeus and humans as Pankratis, the one who controls everything.
09:47Kratos means the one that rules everything.
09:48The one that rules everything.
09:49That's why the ancient Greeks named the God of Zeus and humans as Pankratis, the one who controls everything.
09:54So, actually, Pankratian means the sport that can hold everything and the one who is active with the sport, Pankratias is the one that can control every athletic event by his own.
10:13Metaphorically means the strongest of all, but this is in metaphorical translation.
10:23It's not the exact etymology of the word.
10:25For example, Thea Genis from the island of Thassos in the Kavala territory in Macedonia.
10:32He was a winner that he won 1400 crowns.
10:36That means that almost every day he was competing.
10:40You cannot imagine an athlete like this living today in any kind, okay?
10:45I can tell you about the Polydamas from Skotusa on Thessaly.
10:49He was almost the same famous just like Thea Genis.
10:55And the Persians heard about him.
10:58Actually, Darius heard about him and he invited him to his court to present him to his people.
11:05But actually, he has other things in the back of his mind.
11:09So, when Polydamas went to his court, Darius challenged him to stand against three of his immortal guards.
11:18And as you know, the immortal guards, as we know from Thermopyles and other stories, which was actually famous in that time,
11:25they were carrying a complete armor.
11:28Okay, they have a spear, they have a shield, they have a sword and everything.
11:31So, Polydamas found himself against three people totally armed.
11:36And he has to find a way not only to defend himself, but to prove to Darius that he actually was one of the best of his times.
11:46So, what we know from Philostartos, an ancient writer from the 2nd AD period, is that he killed all of them, the three of the immortal guards of Darius.
12:00Now, this is very easy to say it as a simple story, but you know, it's another story behind of it.
12:07Polydamas actually was naked.
12:09So, he went there to defend against three totally armed men.
12:13He was covered with olive oil, and he probably knew a way to defend against arms, the spear, the shield and the sword and everything.
12:24That means that in ancient, by that time, the Pankratias used Pankration as they fight against the Persians, against one city to another.
12:34But it means also that they learn the ways to defend themselves against armed enemies.
12:41And this is most important, that's why, actually, we have an event named Polydamas for his name and for his glory.
12:50Of course, there are many, many good examples to take it and teach to the people.
12:55I can remember another one, for example, Arachion, or Arachion, we have two actually words with the same name.
13:03He was two times Olympic winner.
13:06Now, it was his time to compete once again for the third time.
13:12But, third time, participation in Asian Olympic Games, it is a very exhausting thing.
13:19So, he didn't actually have the strength to stand against his opponent.
13:24And, unfortunately, his opponent went on his back and he was trying to choke him.
13:28With a strike, what you call it, Klimakizin.
13:30That means that he was having his legs around his waist and he was choking.
13:36So, this is the Klimakizin wrestling move.
13:39Now, as he was losing his conscience, he was fell on the ground, took one of his legs of his opponent and twisted.
13:45So, the opponent felt very painful and he forbids, he declared apagorevsis.
13:52But, at the same time, Arachion was dead already because he choked.
13:57So, the Alonadikis is coming.
13:59They are seeing the couple.
14:01He has seen the opponent of Arachion that he forbids, but Arachion is dead.
14:05Now, who is the winner?
14:07The winner is the dead one.
14:09Unfortunately for him, he didn't have the chance to see himself for the third time as an Olympic winner.
14:14This is happening only in ancient Greece.
14:17I think these are main stories that young people today have to know about the courage, the strength and the stamina that they have to present when you are involved with Pankration.
14:29But, actually, this is what I told you before.
14:31This is the cultural level and the cultural, yes, behind all these things and separates Pankration from all other styles that exist.
14:41Thank you for listening.
14:48Athens is the capital of Greece and its main city.
14:53It is considered the cradle of democracy of the Western civilization.
14:58In Athens, democracy and philosophy were born.
15:02Thus, the Athenian civilization is one of the foundations of European culture.
15:08And it is because of this, the historian Thucydides is cited in the draft of the European Constitution preamble.
15:21It was also the cultural center of classical Greece and in all areas.
15:27Its taste for beautiful design and goodness influenced the rest of the Greek world, Roman, and the West.
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16:07Hydra is a Greek island in the Sarconic Gulf, south of Athens, and it is a car-free island.
16:28It was one of the great naval powers of the Mediterranean Sea in the modern era.
16:34Its owners and ships played an important role during the Greek War of Independence.
16:54Hydra has long been on the edges of the great movements of history, from antiquity to the Middle Ages.
17:03Despite being the name Water of the Aeolian Islands, Hydra or Hydrea, meaning the drunken,
17:11Water always seems to have been missing. The name would have been quite ironic.
17:19In the 19th century, at the height of its power, the Hydriot navy had 125 ships and more than 10,000 sailors.
17:35Several churches and chapels are scattered over the island and contribute to the beauty of Hydra.
17:41Sumptuous and imposing monasteries with hanging rocks are accessible after a donkey ride.
17:47The first school of the merchant marine Hydra was founded around 1645 and was truly the first Hydriot ship launched in 1657.
18:05Hydra is a mountain range of 20 kilometers long and 2 to 3.5 kilometers wide.
18:29Its highest point, Mount Eros or Vigla, rises to 593 meters.
18:39Apart from three coves, the coast of the island is rocky and inhospitable.
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19:07Thank you very much.
19:37The sport is different from other sports because we can combine the two types of ground fighting
20:01and standing.
20:04Deep children are excited because they can just use your hands and feet throughout the body.
20:341, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
20:47The two competitions are composed of three parts.
21:05The first part is a technical demonstration.
21:09Athletes are grouped by school, showing and highlighting the skills they have mastered.
21:15For the second part, there is fighting between athletes from different schools, and they
21:21must score points or win by submitting to their opponent or committing a fault.
21:28And finally, the third part is a group exercise called polydamas, in memory of the wrestler
21:36whom the antiquitous soldiers called Darius the Persian.
21:44Pankrasion is a national sport which speaks directly to children because it is a Greek sport.
21:52Parents also insist their children practice this sport because it represents their country.
21:59Why they do not make a Greek overcharged sport to practice another martial art?
22:03How dare we hold a Greek for their own language?
22:05What do we say?
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22:21Let's go.
22:21Yeah, go ahead.
22:22Come over.
22:23Bye, bye, bye.
22:24Take it.
22:28Ha, give me a copy.
22:31Ladies and gentlemen,
22:32come back to you.
22:33Come back to me.
22:34Come back to you.
22:35Let's go.
22:36Let's go, let's go.
22:37Come back to you.
22:38Come back to me.
22:39I don't know what you're doing.
22:40Let's go again.
22:42Let's go.
22:43Let's go.
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23:33In this area, the region was also very isolated and we were very afraid.
23:41My father advised me to learn a combat sport so I would not be afraid and move freely.
23:47The schools were very far and that's how we decided to install a club here.
24:00Our city loves our sports and our federation and myself and parents support us enormously.
24:09We are very good parents, parents, for cooperation.
24:16So we are all in this sport.
24:19We are very good parents, we are not making fun, no matter how to practice the stride,
24:22our kids has taken care of!
24:24Hey!
24:26Yeah, yeah, yeah!
24:28Yeah!
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24:35Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:38Hey!
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24:44Hey!
24:45Come and see our country. I'm the most dynamic Greek martial art.
25:00The one who can give you a strong body with a beautiful career in a holy spirit.
25:06You will learn at this occasion, our hospital, but mostly you feel the pride to practice a Greek sport.
25:15Let's go!
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26:25So, we're going to be fine with the way.
26:27Hit it!
26:28Hey, let's go!
26:29Up!
26:30Yeah, yeah, yeah!
26:32Ah!
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26:45Nice!
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26:47Push, push.
26:48Yeah, push!
26:49Yeah!
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26:51It's nice to have push.
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26:56Accessories that include the holding of Pancrasian are blue or white gloves with open fingers
27:03for free fighting, mouth guards, shell, shin guards, and feet.
27:10There is also the endema, formal attire of WGPC, World Grappling and Pancrasian Committee composed
27:20of Chatonian, Periskelis, the jacket, and the pants.
27:25It is possible to see an outfit of G-type, as a judo kimono, or shorts, and a sash guard,
27:33always the dominant colors of blue or white.
27:34Yeah!
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27:57Unlike other martial arts, in the Greek mentality, the Greeks do not bow, but only salute.
28:17When greeting, the Pancranteist is standing saluting with the right arm to the right temple.
28:24The greeting is from one person, then to the others.
28:29The coach welcomes his students, and this reciprocity in social relationships between coach and student marks a fundamental difference with other combat sports and martial arts,
28:42where subordination is the rule of the relationship in the sport.
28:54Thank you, Dr. Bickson.
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29:25What they have in common is the use of the Greek Gospels as a liturgical language, mainly composed of national Greek clergy and a set of traditions,
29:40as opposed to the Russian Orthodox Church, Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Georgian, and many others which may have slightly different liturgical traditions.
29:52What they have in common is the use of the Greek Orthodox Church, and the Greek Orthodox Church, Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Georgian, and many others which may have slightly different liturgical traditions.
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