Talk about a “feet” of strength. If Brazil is ground zero for jiujitsu, then Ashbourne, Derbyshire is the mecca for toe wrestling — every year, competitors flock to the tiny U.K. town t…
Each year, competitors like Ben Woodroffe, 35, go toe-to-toe in a small UK town to see who can reign supreme in the unusual sport of toe wrestling.If Brazil is ground zero for jiujitsu, then Ashbourne, Derbyshire is the mecca for toe wrestling — every year, competitors flock to the tiny U.K. town to see who’ll reign supreme in the unusual sport.
“It’s exactly like arm-wrestling, however you compete on the toe-dium and you’ve got two upright planks,” said Ben Woodroffe, 35, the current male division champion who’s known on the circuit as “Toe-tal Destruction,”“The referee says ‘toes away’ and you start your battle. You want to push your opponent’s foot onto the plank,” the digit duelist said.
“Most people don’t realize how much skill is actually required in the sport — there is way more strength and core muscle required than people understand,” she said.Meanwhile, Woodroffe, who first competed in the junior leagues at 14 before joining the men’s competition four years later, wrestles every day, he said.The 6 ft. 5 in. phenom also exercises with a toe stretcher, which limbers the ligaments and thereby prevents the piggies from going to market, so to speak.
Attempts to enter toe wrestling into the Olympics in 1998 proved fruitless, although adherents hope it will earn a second chance.
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