What's the difference between grappling and wrestling?

Question

Can anyone give me a clear concise difference?

Answer 1

Grappling describes the ranges of combat that are of in-fighting, or withing the striking ranges. From longest to closest, there is a weapons range, a kicking range, a punching range, and then the grapplingg ranges, grapplin, or clinch fighting, and groundfighting.

Wrestling is a component of grappling, or rather, it is a means by which people grapple.Wrestling includes clinch work and takedowns of the standing grappling range, and of course includes groundfighting, its wrestling, or submission fighting on the ground.

Wrestling: grappling:: Honda: car.

Answer 2

If you are talking about high school wrestling and grappling in judo,BJJ, and other grappling martial arts than there is a difference. Wrestling has pin and a lot more rules. You can't link hands on the ground or rear naked choke, or hip toss without hooking his arm.... also I don't think there is mount or guard. But if you are just talking about the words then no, it's just another way of saying it.

Answer 3

As da fook abiove says there is none. They are just terms used interchangebly for a 'non striking combat sport' The only difference is different 'non striking combat sports' arbitrarily choose one or the other as their particular label.

Read old english texts and the knights are wrestling one minute and grappling the next or in whatever norman/latin word suffices for either.

Anyone who can pin a correct usage for one or the other and then apply it to sports like BJJ, Judo, Folkstyle, Mongolian, turkish Oil wrestling/grappling which were not even known in english at the time , is obviously kidding themselves

You can call it what you want.

Answer 4

Grappling Is Like Judo - Just Holds & Sometimes Submission Moves. Wrestling - Grappling, Forearms, Kicks etc.

Answer 5

its mainly language, technically(going by a dictionary) there is no difference, but in modern usage wrestling is a subset of grappling consiting of freestyle, greco, sambo, catch, the many many forms of folkstyle(almost every country has its own folkstyle some have more better known ones are that of the US, Mongolia, Turkey and Japan[sumo anybody]) and archaic forms like glima. where as grappling is these as well as judo and bjj. however these distictions are largely artificial and it can be convincingly argued that Judo and BJJ are simply variants of folkstyle for thier respective countries which have spread to other countries(this is also frequently said of sambo). I hope i haven't confused you, but essentially the differences are what you might call semantics, also though there are people now useing grappling to try to seperate themselves from 'professional wrestling'

Answer 6

Grappling refers to the gripping, handling and controlling of an opponent without the use of striking, typically through the application of various grappling holds, choke holds, and counters to various hold attempts. Grappling forms an important part of both ground fighting and standing clinch fighting. Sports that use grappling include Judo, Wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and mixed martial arts.

Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two competitors competing for a physical advantage. Physical techniques which embody the style of wrestling are clinching, holding, locking and leverage. Avoiding potentially lethal techniques, wrestling has aspects of ritual fighting, but its basic principles are closely related to those of military hand-to-hand combat or self-defence systems.

In a nutshell, wrestling is ONE FORM of grappling :)

Answer 7

Wrestling is a form of grappling that emphasizes pinning your opponents back to the mat. Others emphasize submissions.

Answer 8

one word - rules