Flying to India.

[KAS]

Hi Folks,

I am planning a 4 week business trip to Bangalore, India in the next few months and I'd like to get some feedback from the forum. Specifically I have noticed that there seems to be a healthy respect for India's ability to produce wrestlers and strength athletes. I have not studied the history of wrestling and know very little of martial arts in India (save for gatka). Are there things that I should look out for, areas worth researching, artifacts worth collecting? Is there first hand information that I may be able to gather that would be helpful to the cadre? I always like to add a little bit of me time to business trips and see if I can learn a little bit about the local history and culture =)

Assuming my girl friend won't kill me, I will be adding 1-2 weeks vacation time to the end of my trip and I hope to go to Nepal and Tibet. I have always wanted to train with the monks and stand at the base of Mt. Everest =)

BTW, I will speak with a cook and get an authentic recipe for ghee :lol:

Thanks,

-Kyle

[Doug Szolek]

Kyle, my saucepan will be waiting for that ghee recipe :wink:

As for the culture and history, most of what I know has come from The Wrestler's Body by, Joseph Alter. I'm told there is a free view version of it up on the net somewhere's but I don't know the specifics to give you more background.

I will be waiting eagerly to hear of you experience there, take care when the time comes :) .

[Scott Sonnon]

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6n39p104/ :wink:

Have an excellent trip!