Friday, September 30, 2016
2014 President's Cup Event
President's Sambo Cup 2015 in Manchester had a Great Success
Thursday, September 29, 2016
President's Sambo Cup in Edinburgh 2016
Monday, September 26, 2016
UK: Russia wins President's Cup for Sambo martial arts in Scotland
Presidents Cup 2016
The 3rd Presidents Cup was held in Edinburgh on
September 25th in the famous Meadow Bank Stadium. This event is
organised by the Commonwealth Sambo Association supported by the British Sombo
Federation, Scottish Sombo Federation and FIAS. The purpose of the event is to
take it to different parts of the Country to highlight and show case Sambo in
its two different formats Sport Sambo and Combat Sambo. The first year it was
held in Dartford, followed by Manchester both were very Successful.
Holding in Scotland was a risk as the Country did not have
the following like its English counter part. Scottish President Robin Hyslop started
the ball rolling by organising a very successful Scottish Sambo Open a few
months prior to the event attracting over 100 players.
What the President Cup
did do was to bring to Scotland a major International Sambo tournament
featuring a team from Russia which highlighted the Sport in Scotland, this
created a great deal of interest in the Press and media which was very apparent
at the Press Conference held on the Saturday morning.
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| Martin Clarke with Princess Katrina |
The event could not have functioned without the hard work
done by FIAS World coordinator Andrew Moshanov; he and his team were
outstanding and made the whole event a great Success.
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| Andrew Moshanov |
This event always attracts many dignitaries such as Her
Royal highness Princess Katarina , FIAS President and Duma MP Vasily Shestakov,
Michael Wynn Parker President CSA, Eliseev Sergey President ESF, Roberto
Ferraris General Secretary FIAS, Martin Clarke BSF President Sir Maurice Allan
first GB World Champion 1975. This shows the importance of the event and how
FIAS rate Great Britain’s involvement in International Sambo.
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| Sir Maurice Allan with BSF Honorary President Valerie Clarke |
A full report on the actual matches will be released at a
later date what I can say this was a very hard tournament,. The teams for Sport
Sambo were dropped from 8 to 6 this year to make room for the Combat Sambo
Grand Slam. Scotland were pooled against Holland and Spain, I personally
thought they were in spot to make the final but I was shocked by the standard of
the other two teams. Both Teams had
obviously taken this competition very seriously and produced some really top
quality competitors, sadly Scotland lost to Holland 5 to 2 and Spain 4 to 3 but
that is not to say the Scottish team did not fight hard they certainly did and
Scott Imrie look like one of the best players of the day in the whole
competition. With his famous Scottish Judo Coach Father John Imrie taking
charge I am sure we will see a lot more quality Sambo players coming from
Scotland.
The final was between Russia v Holland; this was to prove an exciting match, as the Russians were at best their 3rd string. Although the Russian Team won they did lose a fight to the Dutch the first time in this event that has happened and all the other matches on the whole were close fought so well done to both teams
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| Vasily Shestakov |
The final was between Russia v Holland; this was to prove an exciting match, as the Russians were at best their 3rd string. Although the Russian Team won they did lose a fight to the Dutch the first time in this event that has happened and all the other matches on the whole were close fought so well done to both teams
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| Martin with famous Judo Sambo Player Richard Kenny |
The Combat Sambo grand slam proved very popular and it was a
proud moment for GB Combat Sambo Coach Matt Clempner Senior when his son Matt
Junior won the Grand Slam Belt in the u90 kilo class. Matt is no stranger to
the competitive grappling world, he has been an International Judo Player,
World Sambo Bronze Medallist and is now making his mark in the world of Cage
Fighting
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| BSF Combat Sambo Coach MattClempner Senior |
So what of the Future well talk is of next years event being
in Wales or Northern Ireland, it was also suggested putting the Presidents Cup
over the same week as the British Open. Can you imagine that the Presidents Cup
on the Saturday and the British Open on the Sunday with all the fighters from
the Cup competing that would be some spectacular event? Also robin Hyslop and
John Clarke are suggesting we have annual Scotland v England Team event in both
Sport and Combat Sambo competing for the British Sambo Cup
It is interesting that I was asked at the Press Conference
when will GB see another World Medallist? My answer was simple “MONEY” UKSport
will not fund non Olympic Sport in fact even Olympic Sports who do not win
medals struggle to get funding UKSport seem obsessed with winning Olympic
medals and making some athletes millionaires, they forget Sport needs
participation at all levels and funding should be available to everyone not
just a few Olympians the old Sports Council used to have a saying “Sport for
All” let hope we return to that ethos. So our way forward is to get a large sponsor
easier said then done. The BSF has had help from FIAS and the Russian
Federation which we are grateful for.
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| Matt Clempner |
In past events the British Team has taken Silver and Bronze
our team consisted of both English and Scottish so we are stronger together
lets keep it that way
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Introduction to CombatSombo
Presidents Cup Press Release
Press
Release
Press
conference of the President's SAMBO Cup in Edinburgh, Scotland
September
24, 2016
The
President's SAMBO Cup will take place on September 24 in Edinburgh, Scotland
with the support of Rosneft, the General Sponsor of this event. The tournament
press conference will be held on the competition day, September 24 at 10 am in
the Sheraton Hotel. Special guests and the organizers of the President's SAMBO
Cup 2016 will answer journalists' questions.
The
actual sports event will start with the opening ceremony at 13:00, and the
final fights and awards ceremony will begin at 17:00. Meadowbank Sports Centre,
Edinburgh's main sports complex, is the venue for the already traditional
tournament. All major events in the city, including concerts, are held here. As
in previous years, the organizers of the President's Cup are planning some
pleasant surprises for both spectators and tournament participants, but they
are still a secret.
The
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will be hosting this
tournament for the third time. The first President's SAMBO cup was held in
London in 2014, and the second in Manchester in 2015. In 2016, as we've already
said, the tournament will be held in Edinburgh.
This
year, the President's Cup Organizing Committee will be chaired by HRH Princess
Katarina, who is a member of two European Royal Dynasties. She is a great
granddaughter of Queen Victoria on her mother's side and of the King of Serbia
from the famous Balkan Karađorđević dynasty on her father's side.
Michael
Wynne Parker, President of the Commonwealth SAMBO Association, announced that
members of several ancient Scottish clans had already expressed their intention
to attend the tournament. The Consul General of the Russian Federation to
Scotland and the chief executives of several county councils are also expected
to attend.
According
to Robin Hyslop, President of the Scottish SAMBO Federation, people here are
looking forward for an entertaining tournament. Naturally, the Scots intend to
cheer madly for their team, which they hope to see in nothing less than the
final of this prestigious tournament.
The
tournament's main prize – the gem-incrusted Challenge Cup of about 10 kg – has
already been won twice by the Russian team. This time, Scotland and other
countries will try to do their best to beat the Russian team. In 2016, athletes
from Italy, Spain, France, Holland, Ghana, Commonwealth countries and Scotland,
the host of the tournament, will be fighting for the tournament’s main prize.
Starting
last year, the organizers added another sports event with show elements to the
President's SAMBO Cup – the Combat SAMBO GrandSlam. In Manchester, this
tournament was held in the light heavyweight class – 100 kg, and it was won by
Russian Mikhail Mokhnatkin. This year, the organizers decided to hold the
tournament for combat sambists in four weight classes: 62, 74, 82 and 90 kg.
Combat sambists from Trinidad and Tobago, the USA, Australia, Slovenia, the UK,
Poland, Aruba, France and Russia have already confirmed their participation in
this part of the tournament. Like last year, cash prizes will be given to the
winning sambists.
We
should note that the President's SAMBO Cup has helped uncover a lot of talents
from the Commonwealth countries. Along with medals, athletes who competed in
that tournament returned home with vivid memories and started promoting the
sport in their home countries – in Australia, India, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Trinidad and Tobago, Ghana, Canada, Nicaragua and South Africa. So far, teams
from 22 countries have taken part in the tournaments; thus, SAMBO is steadily
spreading around the world, bringing people, countries and continents together.
That's why each year the Organizing Committee for the tournament invites teams
from various national SAMBO federations that are FIAS members in order to
promote SAMBO worldwide and develop good relations and mutual understanding
among people of different countries.
Along
with the tournament participants, a whole army of fans and SAMBO enthusiasts
will also come to Edinburgh. A team of 40 fans is planning to come from St.
Petersburg alone. The Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko and
President of the St. Petersburg SAMBO Federation Mikhail Kokorin, who is also a
world SAMBO champion, will head the St. Petersburg delegation.
Website
of the President's SAMBO Cup in Edinburgh, Scotland http://presidentscup.pagecloud.com/
British
Sombo Federation
Founded
1986
In 1986 Martin Clarke founded the
British Sombo Federation. Why and How did this happen;
Martin had competed in Sombo with the British Amateur
Wrestling Association in the early 1970s in those days it was refereed to as
either Cambo or Sombo, the word Sambo was considered racist by the powers that
be. Using the C instead of the S was because in the Russian Alphabet the S
sound was written as a C as for Sombo some maintained this was the correct
spelling in reality the only spelling was Sambo. With the Sport moving to
Olympic Games recognition, the FIAS directed all member countries to use just word
which is Sambo.
The BSF went on organise
British and regional championships as well as taking teams to world and
European championships and in 1990 the Sports Council recognised the BSF as the
Governing for Sombo/Sambo in GB. Martin went on serve as Treasurer of the
international Organisation FIAS , was awarded a Grand master of Sambo the only
person in GB ever to receive the award ,in the last few years was presented
with a Gold medal for Services to International Sambo and was also awarded a
Star of Sambo this given to him while at the World Championships in St
Petersburg 2008 this was awarded to the top 10 most influential people in World
Sambo. 2013 World Championship martin was just one of 8 people to receive a
special Gold Medal celebrating 75 years of Sambo
Times move on and the British Sombo
Federation which is now a "Federation of Sambo/Sombo Organisations"
is represented by the following organisation which have affiliated in 201
English Sombo Federation, British CombatSombo Association, Sombo Union of Great
Britain , Federation of Russian Martial Arts (Sambo) Scottish Sombo Federation,
Red Star Sambo, Northern Ireland Sombo Federation, United Kingdom Sambo
Association British Grappling
Association
In 2014 and 2015 the BSF
were involved in organising the very prestigious "Presidents Cup"
held in Dartford and Manchester
About SAMBO in Scotland:
The
first Scottish world SAMBO champion was Morris Allan, who won his title in
Minsk, Belarus in 1975. Morris is the most decorated Scottish wrestler of all
time, and is the only athlete in the history of the UK to become a world
champion in three styles of fighting: freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling and
SAMBO. In recognition of his unique achievement, Queen Elizabeth II made him a
knight, so Morris Allan became a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order
of the British Empire. He was also recognized as Scotland's Wrestler of the
Century. Morris Allan will take part as a guest of honor in the tournament
press conference and the President's Cup in Edinburgh.
The
Scottish SAMBO Federation was formed in 1989. The first national SAMBO
championship was held in 1995, with only 20 participants. Now, in 2016, this
number has grown to 200 participants. It's worth noting that Robin Hyslop,
President of the Scottish SAMBO Federation, has been named coach of the year
twice in the last 20 years.
The
main SAMBO clubs in Scotland are Dumfries Sambo Club, Closeburn Sambo Club, Red
Star Sambo, Sombo93 Edinburgh, Dynamo Sambo in Glasgow and West Sambo from
Greenock. That's a lot of clubs for a small country – it's a sign of the
enormous amount of effort put into developing and promoting SAMBO, and great
success.
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| Press Conference 2014 |
Information for accreditation:
Journalists
wishing to take part in the event should contact the Head of Development of the
International SAMBO Federation Andrew Moshanov by phone 44 7725 319179 or
email:
andrewmoshanov@yahoo.co.uk no later than 24.09.2016.
Saturday, September 17, 2016
European MMA Championships 2016, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Friday, September 16, 2016
Learn TaiJutsu
Chris St John President Northern Ireland IBF/BSF has offered
his services as a leading TaiJutsu/Jiu Jitsu/Aikido Instructor for the purpose
of a day’s course in Sittingbourne. How many of you are interested in attending
this course if so contact Martin Clarke ibfbcsa@gmail.com
Monday, September 12, 2016
Chris St John Ordained
Vice Presidents of IBF Northern Ireland turned out to support
Chris St John, IBF NI President/NI Sambo Federation President at his Ordination
in Belfast. Chris's Martial Arts training paid off when he had to adopt siza Position for a ten-minute period. Training in the Aikido Hakama allowed
Chris to move effortlessly between positions. Years of Martial Arts training
have turned Chris into a Budo Pastor.
We in the IBF/BSF wish Chris the best and for a Martial Art
Association to have its own Chaplain is a great Honour. Chris was a Police
Officer in both the RUC and NIPS this is a man who has served his community
most of his life
