Why Mud Wrestlers Give Up Everything For An Ancient Sport |

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Kushti is a traditional mud-wrestling sport in India with roots dating back 2 500 years. Wrestlers leave their hometowns as children to live and train at wrestling academies called talims. The lifestyle is extremely disciplined: They wake up at 4 a.m. to train six days a week and rarely get the chance to see their families. We went inside the Gangavesh wrestling school in Kolhapur to follow one of the top fighters there Mauli Jamdade to see what it takes to be a mud wrestler.

Kushti is a traditional mud-wrestling sport in India with roots dating back 2,500 years. Wrestlers leave their hometowns as children to live and train at wrestling academies, called talims. The lifestyle is extremely disciplined: They wake up at 4 a.m. to train six days a week and rarely get the chance to see their families. We went inside the Gangavesh wrestling school in Kolhapur to follow one of the top fighters there, Mauli Jamdade, to see what it takes to be a mud wrestler.

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