Last Man Standing: Wrestling Roots in Mongolia
A project in Chicago, IL by T.R. Foley000days
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I'm wrestling my way through Mongolia and need your support to come home and write a book about the adventure.
Backers: 110
Average Pledge Per Backer: $119
Funded: $13,055 of $12,500
Dates: May 12th -> Jun 30th (50 days)
Project By: T.R. Foley
Backers: 110
Average Pledge Per Backer: $119
Funded: $13,055 of $12,500
Dates: May 12th -> Jun 30th (50 days)
Project By: T.R. Foley
$13,055
current pledge level
Last Updated: March 23 @ 13:10 -0400 GMT
104%
of goal
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Latest News
Tee Shirts, Photos and the Return Trip 
September 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi, All: I'm headed back to Mongolia on Monday, September 12th to report on what could be the Guinness World Record for largest Mongolian wrestling tournament. I'll be hoping to place the article in a national magazine and am waiting to hear back... (Read More)
Heading Home + One Surprise
August 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
http://wrestlingroots.org/im-comin-home/ After 10+ weeks on the road I’m packing up the speedos and Jedi outfit to come home and start writing in-depth about my time on the steppe. The process will be painful at times as details aren’t easy to... (Read More)
New Wrestling Roots Video!
July 13th - via: kickstarter.com
This video was created by Colin Sternagel of www.suntimefilms.com who signed on a few weeks ago to help document the Wrestling Roots project in Mongolia. He's a former high school wrestler from Washington state and an enterprising filmmaker looking... (Read More)
Check out these photos!
July 6th - via: kickstarter.com
I hope this link to my latest Facebook album works. Wrestling in Mongolia is just an incredible experience but these photos only tell a quarter of the story. Can't wait to fill you guys in on the details!... (Read More)
The Final Few Hours
June 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to everyone who was able to pledge their support to the Wrestling Roots project. It's been an awesome 50 days and I trust that my experiences wrestling in China and Mongolia have you thinking about the sport in a new and more dynamic way. I'm... (Read More)
Five Days Left (gulp) and New Publicity
June 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Five days left and a little more than $5k to go. My thinking is that there are several donors driven by a deadline and they'll begin to appear this weekend and early next week. That said, any help you can provide in promotion wold be incredible.... (Read More)
Rolling in the Shanxi Province
June 12th - via: kickstarter.com
You'll love this video shot by my intrepid and tough girlfriend in Xinzhou, Shanxi, China. Finding this little town took a lot of trust in translators and then nothing short of brilliant luck, but as you can see the results were worth the risk. The... (Read More)
First Wrestling Video Posted
June 4th - via: kickstarter.com
I've worked my way up from discussions with the mat cleaning lady at the Beijing Sports University to the head traditional wrestling instructor in all of China. In the middle was Shen, the University's shuaijiao instructor who showed me some... (Read More)
Podcast with USA Wrestling!
May 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Check out the Podcast and pass it along to your friends! http://themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=23637 I should be in Beijing by now but my flight last night was cancelled due to mechanical issues. Here's to... (Read More)
Kickstarter and Wrestling Roots feat. on InterMat
May 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Read the article here. InterMat staff writers Mark Palmer and T.R. Foley got together this week to discuss Foley's attempt to join together the worlds of wrestling and adventure travel with a brand-new website and book. You were an All-American... (Read More)
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