Wednesday, September 30, 2015
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 |
"
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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# posted by IBFBCSA @ 4:41 AM 
