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123 #under pressure curated by Federico Tosi u n d e r p r e s s u r e from thinking to wrestling, and return Who knows how much might help with introspection, observation and mind analysis, to overcome an opponent in wrestling . Whether it could be more helpful, in order to better comprehend human thought and action, to experience a defeat or to bask a victory. Plato , for instance, excelled in pankration² , and he has been one of the first greatest thinkers, with regard to the mechanics of human relations and destinations. Philosophy and psychology are among the disciplines most involved in successes and defeats concerning wrestling, because it is precisely behaviour and mind thoughts that predispose to the craving for competition and to provide resources in order to improve one’s own tools through training. Mental, always before than physical, is the match between the bodies embracing themselves on the platform. Common mechanisms to all sports, but in wrestling you are alone. It is a discipline more individual than the others because the athlete has no instruments unless his own arms and the mind coordinating them together with the weight. Who knows how much rising defeated or knocking the rival out to the ground are valid ways to knowledge. In Italy, the city of Faenza is one of the most generous cradles of wrestlers. At national level, one third of the medals for wrestling comes from this center, 59,000 inhabitants, one thousandth of the Italian population. An amazing proportion allowed by a gym, the Giovanni Lucchesi’s, seat of the sports club Faenza Lotta, one of the oldest in Italy where Greco-Roman wrestling is practiced. Whoever is local knows that it is not a common sporting place and that it enjoys a particular halo, not exclusively dictated by the value of the medals won by its coryphaeuses. Lucchesi Gym is a clear training ground, it delivers a tough and harsh image, it conveys the importance of locker room as of effort in training. The trophies won during one hundred years of history are full exposed along their corridors. 2019 is closing the first century of life of Lucchesi Gym, cradle of fighters the likes of Antonio Randi, Ercole Gallegati, Marco Gavelli, Gian Matteo Ranzi, Vincenzo Maenza, Andrea Minguzzi, Franco Benedetti, Daigoro Timoncini, Natale Vecchi. These are the names of the Olympic champions from the Faenza hall of fame. Photo albums going from the albumen print to the digital, retracing Faenza Lotta’s history on the main sports stage, from the first Olympics dating last century until Rio 2016. 2 Pankration is an ancient combat sport, an agon which was part of heavy athletics of ancient Greek origin, and consisted of a fighting and boxing mix. The term in ancient Greek πανκράτιον [pr. pankrátion ], means 'all strength', indicating that the wrestler defeated his opponent using all his strength and all the parts of the body, with every technique admitted by hand, except to remove the eyes of the opponent. 122 u n d e r p r e s s u r e