Catch as catch can style

Japanese: キャッチ・アズ・キャッチ・キャン・スタイル - きゃっちあずきゃっちきゃんすたいる
Catch as catch can style

…However, with the invention of gunpowder and the appearance of firearms, fighting styles changed dramatically, and wrestling lost its purpose as a fighting technique, and was reborn as a sport, which has been passed down to the present day. Each region of Europe, especially in the UK, inherited its own wrestling style, but the Lancashire style, which allows you to grab any part of your opponent, was called the "catch-as-catch-can style". Due to the British colonial policy, it spread to America and other parts of the world, and from the 14th London Olympics in 1948, it came to be called freestyle. Wrestling was adopted as an official event in the modern Olympic Games at the first Athens Games in 1896, but only five people from four countries participated, and only the Greco-Roman style was used. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "catch as catch can style" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし,火薬の発明による火器の出現により戦闘様式が一変すると,格闘技術としての目的を失い,スポーツとして生まれ変わって現代に受け継がれることになる。ヨーロッパ各地,とくにイギリスの各地方には独自のレスリングが継承されていったが,なかでもランカシャースタイルは相手のどこをつかんでもよいところから〈キャッチ・アズ・キャッチ・キャン・スタイルcatch‐as‐catch‐can style〉と呼ばれ,イギリスの植民地政策などによりアメリカをはじめ世界の各地に普及,1948年の第14回ロンドン・オリンピックからはフリースタイルと称されるようになった。 近代オリンピックのなかで,レスリングは1896年の第1回アテネ大会から正式種目として採用されたが,この時の出場者はわずか4ヵ国,5人で,グレコローマンスタイルだけであった。…

※「キャッチ・アズ・キャッチ・キャン・スタイル」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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