Tuesday, December 09, 2014
World Cadets Thanks Presidents Cup
World Sambo Cadets 2014
December 4th – 7th
Cyprus
Thanks to Presidents Cup
This was the first time in over 20 years that
the BSF have sent a British Team to the World Cadets Championships the last
time we participated FIAS was a lot smaller and the Cadets etc were included in
the main World Championships. Our team consisted of Fighters Richard Seaman,
Fergus Hamilton, Brandon Springett, Mick Seaman Manager, Martin Clarke BSF
President, Valerie Clarke BSF Hon President.
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| The Team |
The reason we could enter this year was because
of the President Cup held in September money made from that event funded the
three lads who entered the rest paid their own way.
The Presidents Cup has
created a great deal of interest in Sport Sambo and Combat Sambo, the BSF have
been inundated with enquiries lets hope they all turn into members. The Success
of Sambo has created a lot of MMA Clubs claiming to do Combat Sambo, which they
are not. Both Sport Sambo and Combat Sambo are Jacket Combat Sports if they are
not training with a jacket they are not doing any form of Sambo.
The BSF is the
governing body for Sambo/Sombo in GB recognised by UKSport and FIAS, the BSF is
a Federation of Associations and has 10 affiliated Sambo Organisations contact
the BSF on IBFBCSA@Gmail.com for more
info.. Hopefully we will see a rerun of the Presidents Cup in 2015 the Dartford
Glow was the ideal venue and attracted a full audience
Now back to the World Cadets:
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| Stadium |
Our First and only fighter on day 1 was Richard
Seaman his match was against Apanasevich from Belarus. Richard made the mistake
of trying fight him like Judoka, where you feel your fighter out first, this is
not what happens in Sambo.
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| Richard in Blue |
Samboist have much larger range of techniques in
their arsenal and come out all guns blazing he defeated Richard with a leglock
His opponent got to the final so Richard has chance of a Bronze and his
opponent was Amaandeldi from Kazikstan although Richard lost this the fight but
it went nearly the whole distance, Martin told him to take the fight to his
opponent and this he done making many attacks, twisting out of throws and
escaping armlocks he eventually lost 12 pt to 0 . This was not a disgrace he
fought like a Sambo Player and with a liitle more experience will become a
potential International Medallist
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| The Controversy |
Just before Richards match an argument had
occurred over a score given by the Referee seconds before the end of the bout.
An appeal was made to look at the dreaded video playback this resulted in a
10-minute argument with the score remaining. Then Richard was called to the mat
and was stopped again because yet another argument arose over the same score,
which still remained. Sports are becoming more and more reliant on Video how
long before the Referee is obsolete. There were three experienced Referees and
Judges who all gave the same decision their judgement should be absolute. Years
ago when I served on the FIAS EC you could make an appeal BUT NOT on a
judgement Call i.e. a score, Video will prove a hindrance rather then a
positive thing
Cyprus is the ideal place
for a competition in December the temperature is 74 F and it is sunny, prices
are cheap. Val and the boys are even used the out door pool and sea cannot be
better except all drivers including Coach drivers are on the phone and the
flies are every where
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| Brandon |
Day 2 saw Brendan
Springett and Fergus Hamilton in action once again our boys lost there first
fight and this time their opponent never went through to the final so all that
way to sunny Cypress for just one fight. Brendan fought Akhmet from Kazakhstan
and eventually went out after a hard fight on an armlock.
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| Fergus |
Fergus once again
fought hard but lost to Frenchman Elio on points
The Competition was very
well run congratulation to the Cyprus Sambo Federation and FIAS
The standard as I have
said was unbelievable, the throwing was the best I have seen and the applications of arm and leg locks for 15 year olds was phenomenal and the one thing we have learnt is that training just
once or twice a week will not get you International acclaim and you need to
have a strict Sambo lesson. We in GB are inclined to mix our Grappling Sports and
this does not perfect Sambo Techniques. Sports like Judo, BJJ are far to
restrictive in what you can and can't do. We need more dedicated Sambo Classes
in the UK at the Warriors Club in Sittingbourne we have a dedicated Junior
Sambo Club and I will be starting a Sambo Class on a Monday , our hard training
night covering Sambo and Judo on a Tuesday night is proving very successful
This year the BSF had
enough funds to pay for the 3 fighters this will not happen next year. So in
future competitors will have to pay their own way but we have a lot of time to
save and next year a lot of the tournaments are in reasonable
priced Countries with regard to travel costs. Europeans in May Zagreb Croatia,
November World Senior Casablanca, World Cadets December Bulgaria, World Masters
October Israel So if you want to compete for GB you have to enter the British
Open
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