Sunday, November 30, 2014
World Congress
FIAS WORLD SAMBO CONGRESS
Narita Japan
This years FIAS Annual Congress
was held in Narita Japan the Land of the Rising Sun
This years Congress was the
biggest ever with nearly 100 countries participating and the main speech was
given by President Vasily Shestakov in which he explained how much had been
done to promote Sambo throughout the world. The things that caught my attention
was that many countries had full size mats donated to them Great Britain was
one of them. President Shestakov had travelled throughout the World promoting
International Sambo his energy is outstanding because not only is he FIAS
President he is also a member of the Russian Duma. Two events he praised was
the Presidents Cup held in England and the Beach Sambo in Phuket . A very impassioned
speech was given by Vice President Andrey Klyamko, sometime we see these FIAS Committee men as just Suits
we forget how many of them have a great deal of passion and heart for Sambo,
his speech really impressed me and many of the delegates
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| Andrey Klyamko |
FIAS the World governing body
is going from strength to strength just to think in 1992 Martin Clarke and the
BSF hosted the World Championships in Herne Bay with less the 20 countries and
now we have nearly a 100 countries. Very few people in the Martial arts World
has heard of Sambo then now in GB there is not a Martial Arts/Grappler in GB
who has not heard of Sambo/Combat Sambo. So much is the popularity of Sambo
that we now we have a string of clubs claiming to do Sambo as they say
“Impersonation is the greatest form of Flattery” but why make do with a copy when you can have
the original, that’s why people train with the BSF
The FIAS Congress presented
Martin Clarke with a special Plaque. “For outstanding organisation of the President's
Cup and the Worldwide Development of Sambo”. Although this was presented to Martin it was
also a big thank you to those who had helped at the event as with out the help
of everyone no one individual could have run the event The Presidents Cup was
not just a Competition it was an extravaganza and hopefully will be repeated in
the same venue next year. This was the first time many people from GB had met
people from Russia and found them to be decent people.
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| Martin with President Shestakov |
Next year events were
discussed the 2015 World Championships will be held in Morocco and the Sambo
will be included in the European Olympics, I also heard that the Japanese
Government want Sambo to be a Demonstration Sport in the 2020 Olympics and this
will be backed by the Russian Government. Our ambition to become an Olympic
Sport is moving closer
BSF President Martin
Clarke, assisted by English Sambo Federation President Russell Dodds and
Scottish Sambo Federation President Robin Hyslop, represented Great Britain
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| Russell Robin Martin |
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