FRENCH WRESTLING: [TRANSLATED]

by Matthew Lynch

This guideline to the proper practice of "French Wrestling" was written in 1891 to bring order and regularity to wrestling as it stood at the time. This was of course the age of carnival wrestlers, itinerant gargantuans who took on all comers drunk or stupid enough to challenge them. The writer of the preface to this book laments this state of affairs and thanks the author for his efforts to clean up the sport and return it to its proper place "between boxing and fencing". This trend seems to have been successful as we now find Olympic and collegiate wrestling to be highly organized and respectable sports. At the same time, Leon Ville includes what we could call "the backbreaker" among his arsenal of moves, as well as instructions for a side neck crank akin to the guillotine choke which, if applied with bad intention, would break a man's neck.

43 pages, Paperback

Published January 2, 2018

About the author

Dr. Lynch is a Chair and Associate Professor of Education at Langston University, a blogger for the Huffington Post, a columnist for Education News, and a education advice columnist for Education World. He spent seven years as a K-12 teacher, which gave him an intimate view of the impediments that hinder genuine education reform. He has focused the second stage of his career on researching topics related to educational policy, school leadership and education reform, particularly in the urban learning environment.

Dr. Lynch’s scholarship is intended to make a redoubtable, theoretically and empirically based argument that genuine school reform and the closing of the well-chronicled achievement gap are possible. His research and commentaries have been featured in publications throughout the United States and have centered on issues ranging from school reform to politics. Throughout his career, he has been interested in developing collaborative enterprises that move the field of education forward.

Dr. Lynch is the author of It’s Time for a Change: School Reform for the Next Decade, the newly released A Guide to Effective School Leadership Theories, and the forthcoming The Call to Teach: An Introduction to Education (Pearson, 2014). In addition, he is the editor of the following projects; Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians (Praeger, November 30, 2012), the book series Studies in Anti-Intellectualism and Academic Disengagement (Rowman & Littlefield), and a forthcoming book entitled Reimagining School Reform and Innovation (Sense, 2013). For more information, please visit his website at www.drmattlynch.com.