The Grappling Arts Podcast

by Sam West

Wrestling Resurgence presents: The Grappling Arts Podcast where we explore the craft of professional wrestling! Welcome to The Grappling Arts Podcast, where we celebrate the art of professional wrestling, explore wrestling practice, and dig deep into its rich and varied history. Throughout the series we bring you interviews with leading figures from within the independent wrestling community, as well as a variety of expert gu... Read more

Podcast episodes

  • Season 2

  • S02 E07 - Special Edition - Collaborative Touch in Performance and Sport - LU Arts Roundtable

    S02 E07 - Special Edition - Collaborative Touch in Performance and Sport - LU Arts Roundtable

    A special edition of Grappling Arts bring you this event from the LU Arts/Loughborough University festival Interface.Sport and artistic performance have a long, intertwined history. Despite this, they are so often regarded as sepa...

    57:17
  • S02 E06 - Heather Bandenberg - Feminist resistance, performance art, storytelling

    S02 E06 - Heather Bandenberg - Feminist resistance, performance art, storytelling

    Welcome to the grappling arts podcast. Joining Claire and myself is the professionally unladylike writer and performance artist Heather Bandenburg.In her own words, Heather grew up wanting to be a writer, and then accidentally bec...

    01:33:18
  • S02 E05 - Conor Heffernan - Wrestling, bodybuilding, and physical culture

    S02 E05 - Conor Heffernan - Wrestling, bodybuilding, and physical culture

    This episode focuses on the many fascinating intersections between wrestling, physical culture and bodybuilding. Conor Heffernan is a formerly Assistant Professor of Physical Culture and Sport Studies at the University of Texas a...

    01:52:35
  • S02 E04 - Sam Benjamin - Acting, action movies, and wrestling

    S02 E04 - Sam Benjamin - Acting, action movies, and wrestling

    Welcome to another episode of the Grappling Arts. The guest for this episode Sam Benjamin.Sam Benjamin is an award winning actor known for his role in The War of the Worlds (2019), and his guest turns in Doctor Who (2005) & Peaky ...

    01:20:34
  • S02 E03 - Sugar Dunkerton - Wrestling performance, matches, and storytelling

    S02 E03 - Sugar Dunkerton - Wrestling performance, matches, and storytelling

    Sam and Claire are joined by independent wrestling globe trotter Sugar Dunkerton! They talk about the movie Gladiator, the differences between national wrestling styles, and Dunkerton's time in the UK.

    01:15:18