A Viking Argument for Low-Line Kicking

LET’S START THE JOURNEY on the American frontier, a rough-and-tumble land that spawned a fighting style of the same name. The style was allencompassing and vicious in war but a bit more restrained (but still mighty vicious) in “friendly” competition.

THE EARLY DAYS of frontier survival called for ready skills with the musket, the tomahawk and whatever else was nearby. When nothing was close at hand, the violence fell to the hands themselves plus other natural weapons of the human body.

The Rough and Tumble style began as a hybrid of boxing and wrestling systems that originated in far-off