Wednesday, September 30, 2015
NO STRANGLES IN SPORT SAMBO?
NO STRANGLES IN SPORT SAMBO?
Sambo and Judo may look
similar which they are, Sambo’s origins came from Judo. In fact at the 2014
World Sambo Championships the Japanese felt that Sambo was coming home. Yet the
thing that separated the two in the beginning was the Philosophy.
Kano saw “Judo is more than just a sport or Martial Art,
it is a means of Physical and Cultural Attainment” in other words “it is a way
of producing better human beings” While Oschepkov one of the founders of Sambo
and student of Kano envisaged this style of grappling as a way to train Soviet
Troops to fight. He and others wanted a system that could keep the troops
fighting fit without inflicting serious injury on themselves
So
everything was revolved around a battlefield hand-to-hand combat scenario. So
even when they invented a sporting element i.e. competition the emphasis was
still on the battlefield. That is why you get a Total Victory for throwing
someone on their back and remaining standing. In the World Championships in
Italy in the 1990’s one of my fighters fought an Italian and made a dummy attack
and his opponent literally fell over his own feet, the referee gave a Total.
The audience booed him, he looked up pointed his finger at the man on the ground
and went bang bang. He was saying in a Battlefield situation he would be dead.
Now some have said why no strangles in Sport Sambo once again you go back to
the Battlefield where a broken arm or leg does not kill a person but takes him
out of the battle and most probably takes a comrade out because he will need
medical attention. When I first started Sambo in the 1970’s hold downs were not
allowed once again in Battle you did not have the time to roll around the
ground, the same goes for strangles.
Now
whether this all-true or just some old soldiers giving me a yarn I do not know
but it does make sense. Now a days Sport Sambo is what it says it is a dynamic
sport and the recently introduced Combat Sambo is an extra arm of Sambo to take
in account the modern phenomenon of Strike and Grapple
Martin
Clarke
FIAS Grandmaster
President Cups 2015
2nd British
Presidents Cup
The Presidents Cup was in the format of a real sports show and festival,
best described by two words: beauty and friendship.
It promoted
Sambo not just as a sport but also as a day of entertainment this is a response
from One of the Spectators, an ex Army student of CombatSombo
mine he is a very high graded Martial Arts Players specialising in Defendo he
made a rather interesting comment
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| Dan Diamond |
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Martin as you know I have been all over the World and seen many Martial Arts
Tournaments but this has to be the best ever and the reason Why is that you
managed to make a standard style tournament into an entertainment event. with
great lighting, music commentary laser show it has been brilliant"
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| Danny Carrott scoring |
Just before the start of the
competition, the organisers surprised spectators and participants with an
exciting laser show and a performance by the famous British DJ with the stage
name “Liv Knight” aka Elizabeth Knight. Liv Knight, one of the five best DJs in
England, has just returned from Las Vegas, where she successfully performed a
series of concerts. Event City was
packed, just like the previous year. And once again, as in 2014, the audience
included a lot of Britons of all ages - seniors, teenagers, families with
children and middle-aged people
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| GB Team |
The
British Sombo Federation part in this spectacular was to supply Table
Officials, Marshals, Referees and most importantly to select the British Team
who were Debbie Jackson, Emma Herd, Bradley Belsey, Casey Belsey, Dan Diamond,
Danny Carrott, Danny Roberts and Coach John Clarke. Last year the GB Team were
pooled with 3 commonwealth Teams, they won only to lose to the Russians. This
year there was just 6 teams but the British Pool was a lot harder they had a
strong team from Spain and a Commonwealth Combined Team consisting of Canada,
Trinidad & Tobago, Cyprus and Australia. Their first match was against
Spain who they beat 6 to 1.
The next match was to be a hard one, which was
against the Commonwealth and the match, which was to decide whether we could go
through was the 74k featuring Englishman Dan Diamond in his first International
Competition in the Sambo. Dan had looked very impressive in his match with the
Spaniard but both Dan and Team Coach John Clarke knew his match with the
Commonwealth competitor was to be a hard one. John had done a very good job
coaching the British team and is very passionate so when the Spanish Referee
made a debateable call, John made a very vocal and impassioned plea to the Mat
Chairman to no avail. The British Team and the British Audience were sure there
had been a mistake but there were 3 referees and there decision has to stand
right or wrong, as you cannot have outside influences effecting the judgement
of the referees.
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| Father and Son |
GB
went on to beat the German Team to take
a well deserved Bronze
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| Combat Sambo Belt |
The British were waiting impatiently for final
round of Combat Sambo, where Clempner was competing. But Mokhnatkin didn’t give
them a chance to enjoy it - a hit and rush following right after it led to a
knockout. The championship belt of the first-ever British Combat Sambo Grand
Slam went to Russia, like the President’s Cup, which the Russian team will take
back home with them tomorrow.
Several members of the British Sombo Federation
were honoured by receiving Certificates “For Outstanding Achievements and
Contribution to the Development of Sambo in Great Britain and the World” they
were:
Martin Clarke, Matthew Clempner Senior, John
Clarke, Robin Hyslop, Valerie Clarke, Keith Costa, Colin Carrott, Alan Kontozi.
A Posthumous Award was made to Russell Dodds who
sadly passed away early this year and the organisers made special mention of
him and the work he had done for Sambo
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| Press Conference |
So what of the future will the Cup return next
year? Where will it be staged? We wait with baited breath
More information and photos can be found at:
BSF Officials at
Presidents Cup without them the Competition would not run
John Clarke
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GB Coach
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Rebecca Stock
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Table Official
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Colin Carrott
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Referee
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Channel Smith
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Table Official
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Adam Lintop
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Marshal
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Sue King
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Marshal
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Keith Costa
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Comp Supervisor
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Sian Chapman
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Table Official
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Hayley White
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Table Official
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Chris Soper
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Marshal
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Paul Sawyer
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Referee
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George Loscombe
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Marshal
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Robin Hyslop
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Marshal
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Stephen Sweetlove
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Referee
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Vadim Kolganov
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Referee
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David Diamond
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Marshal
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Jamie Marzetti
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Marshal
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Stuart sands
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Marshal
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British sambo history
President's Sambo Cup 2015 in Manchester had a Great Success
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Sambo - what is it?
British sambo's history & President Cup Press Conference
The main event leading up to the President's Sambo Cup starting in Manchester tomorrow was a press conference for the tournament held in the memorial hall of the second largest city in the UK. The speakers at the main media event included FIAS President Vasily Shestakov, Chairman of the Sambo Association of the British Commonwealth Michael Parker, President of the British Sambo Federation Martin Clarke and member of the organising committee for the cup Leo Malim.
Full report can be seen at
http://www.sambo-fias.org/news/7661
Monday, September 21, 2015
Photos Landrover run
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Presidents Cup Land Rover Run
FIAS
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Land Rover Run will deliver the prestigious trophy to Manchester for the II President's Cup
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| The II President’s Cup Sambo Trophy (Photo: FIAS) | |
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MANCHESTER, September 18, 2015 - The Land Rover Run, starting out in St Petersburg and traveling to Manchester, will be delivering the exquisite trophy to the II President’s Cup tournament. Alexander Kuznetsov, representative of the organizing committee, has announced that the Land Rover Run will commence on the 20th of September at 15:00pm at the Mitninsky riverside.
«This is the first ever auto run from St Petersburg to Manchester; its main aim – to promote and further develop sambo in Europe” said Kuznetsov. The event’s route will be via countries of northern Europe and Benelux. Each step of the journey in each country can be monitored on the official FIAS website:www.sambo-fias.org.
As part of the II President’s Cup, alongside the team competitions where 8 countries will compete, the first ever promotional Combat Sambo Tournament “British Combat Sambo Grand Slam” will take place in an open weight category. The invited participants of this tournament are: Mikhail Mokhnatkin (Russian – European Champion), Bjorn Bachmann (Germany), Sidi Mohammed Bouarfa (France), Constantine Soldatov (Kazakhstan), Genko Ivanov (Bulgaria), Matthew Clempner (World Championship 2012 medalist, and 2 time World Judo Cup winner), Diego Vazquez Montes (Mexico) and Aaron Frederick (winner of the Pan-American championship 2015)
Last year the Russians took home the prestigious trophy; it’s made of 12 natural stones and gems such as jade, jasper, turquoise, pearls, Rhodonite, Beryl, sapphire, Amber, Malachite and Aventurine stones, all together weighing almost 10kg. In the final of the I President’s Cup in London, the Russian team went head to head against the Great Britain team, beating them 7:2.
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Colin Carrott Technical Director Sport Sambo
COLIN CARROTT
BSF TECHNICAL DIRECTOR SPORT SAMBO
2 x World Masters Bronze
5th Dan Judo
1st Dan Jiu Jitsu
3rd Degree CombatSombo
5th Degree Sambo
BSF Senior Referee
BSF Master of Sambo
President English Sambo Federation
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| Training St petersburg Russia |
He coaches at Warriors Grappling Academy Sittingbourne and Spitfire sambo & Judo Club Capel Le Ferne. He is available for Coaching Courses throughout the UK for the very reasonable price of £150 for a 5 hour course plus expenses
Matthew Clempner Combat Sambo Technical Director
The BSF have just appointed
Matthew Clempner Senior as our Combat Sambo Technical Advisor
Matthew comes with a wealth
of experience he was World Sambo Bronze medallist, competed for GB in the
Olympics for Wrestling, President of FORMA UK, FORMA International Master of
Sambo, 7th Dan Judo, 7th Dan Jiu Jitsu
His duties are to expand and
develop Combat Sambo throughout Great Britain on behalf of the British Sombo Federation.
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| Coaching in Dubai |
Martin Clarke
President BSF
