Jacket wrestling

The method of combat has also been referred to as "belt-and-jacket wrestling", for its common use of a belt or sash in addition to or instead of a jacket.

[citation needed] The two most popular contested styles of jacket wrestling today are Judo and Sambo.

[citation needed] Encyclopædia Britannica has stated that, "The three basic types of wrestling contest are the belt-and-jacket, catch-hold, and loose styles, all of which appear to have originated in antiquity.

Belt-and-jacket styles of wrestling are those in which the clothing of the wrestlers provides the principal means of taking a grip on the opponent.

Green and Joseph R. Svinth stated in 2010 that, it has been recorded as a method of combat as early as the Middle Ages.

A Shuai jiao match in China
Za-vorotok folk wrestling, a single-handed variant of the sport, practised by the Slavic peoples