A short summary

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Lucha canaria

Lucha canaria is a traditional wrestling style, originating from Canary Islands, Spain.
grips on the opponent's garments grip fighting/changing grips during the match.

Techniques

We don't know much about Lucha canaria's arsenal of techniques, except that .

Objective

Make opponent touch the ground with any part of the body above the knee to score a point. Whoever scores 2 points first wins.

Competition

The matches traditionally take place on sand. We don't yet know what the usual match duration is.

We don't know if any weight classes are established.
We don't know whether it is allowed for women to participate in Lucha canaria competitions.

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