Sunday, April 29, 2018
SAMBO v SOMBO
Why the Name Sombo?
The reason it is called British Sombo Federation is because we are recognised by UKSport for the Sport. The BSF have been told if we change the name to Sambo we will lose our UKSport recognition something we are not prepared to do just to appease people who do not our Sport. FIAS the International Sambo Body accept our name and understand why it is used. If Sambo comes an Olympic Sport it will need government recognition. I will agree the UK are now the only country using the word Sombo. It obvious that people are not aware of the history of the word Sambo, it used to be a derogatory word for Black people and was seen as a racist hence the reason why we used use the word Sombo. Sombo we was introduced in the 1980's to avoid to complaint of Racism. This was introduced by Josh Henson the USA President and was for the English Speaking Countries supported by FIAS. Before that the Brits used the word Cambo in the 1970's. I think the Word Sambo is no longer considered a Racist term in the English Speaking Countries but until UKSport accept this we will continue use the Word Sombo in the BSF as we have to accept we live in a PC World
Thursday, April 26, 2018
British Open Sport Sambo 2018
British Sombo Federation
British Open Sports Sambo Championships
April 21st 2018
Burston Hotel Folkestone
This years British Sport Sambo event was held at the
Ballroom of the Burston Hotel. This Hotel is near Folkestone Harbour and beach
and made an ideal venue for those wishing to make the British Open a weekend
experience
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| Medal Winners |
The Ballroom was a luxurious venue far removed from the
normal clinical Sports centre, the event was organised by English Sambo
President Colin Carrott ably assisted by National Coach John Clarke and Keith
Costa plus we must not forget all the other officials who officiated without
whom the competition could not run.
The event was very well supported with players from all over
England, Scotland, N Ireland, Germany, Holland and Ghana plus there were many
Eastern Europeans who now live in the UK.
The Senior Men’s event was very well supported, plus we had an unusual amount of Masters participating, sadly the Women’s event had very low entry, the BSF need to make a determined effort to encourage more women. The Cadets 11 year to 14 years was very poorly attended and next year will be dropped from the event, National Coach John Clarke has said if there is a demand for a British Championships for Cadets he will run an event at his Club.
The Senior Men’s event was very well supported, plus we had an unusual amount of Masters participating, sadly the Women’s event had very low entry, the BSF need to make a determined effort to encourage more women. The Cadets 11 year to 14 years was very poorly attended and next year will be dropped from the event, National Coach John Clarke has said if there is a demand for a British Championships for Cadets he will run an event at his Club.
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| Ashley Costa |
There featured some tremendous matches with some really big
throws and submissions and lots of surprises. Ashley Costa came out of
retirement to win Gold in the Masters Event and was awarded throw of the day.
The throw of the day is awarded to the Gold medallist who performed the best
throw.
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| Tom, Georgio, Jonathan |
Jonathon Heron (Cheshire Sambo) Northern
Ireland Army Doctor was back on the scene and won Gold in the Senior Men’s
event, Georgi
Goergiev (Cheshire Sambo) the
Veteran Coach/Fighter won Gold in the Masters and the Seniors keeping up his
continual winning record. Billy Wilshire (Fightworx) has
been improving over the last few years, training at various venues, always
turning up Squad session as well as entering many events home and abroad, this
proved a dividend when he won the Gold medal in style.
There were two shock defeats first was Tom Burton (Cheshire Sambo) a top Class Judo and Sambo Player who was expected to take Gold that was until he met James Rogers (Team Mushin) whom specialises in arm locks and leg locks . Tom was dominating the match but when they went to the ground he was caught with a Leglock, the same happened in the Finals to 18-year-old Lewis Clarke (one of the Clarke dynasty) Warriors Grappling Academy who succumbed to the Leg Lock.
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| Ryan Cottom |
The next favourite was Ryan Cottom Warriors Grappling Academy who was matched against a very strong German Jannik Wezill when the match finished they both had 1 point each but the German had a positive point while Ryan’s point was a negative point so therefor he lost the match
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| National Coach John Clarke with son Lewis |
Men u74kg Billy Wilshire (Fightworx)
Men u90kg James Rogers (Team Mushin)
Men u100kg Jonathon Heron (Cheshire
Sambo)
Men u82kg Ryan Cottom (Warriors
Grappling Academy)
Combat Sambo Players for World Seniors will be selected at
the British Open Combat Sambo event to be held in Scotland in June. All those
selected will be registered with FIAS through Colin Carrott
The Presidents Cup will be held in September in Belfast the
organisers have yet to decide whether we have a British Team or teams from
Scotland, England and Northern Ireland
British Sambo has come a long way since I formed the British
Sombo Federation in 1986 and there is more to come
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| President Martin Clarke with Robin Hyslop Pete Wise John Clarke |
Results
Boys u35kg
Gold: Atli Myers (Spitfire)
Silver: Ibai Ennor (Spitfire)
Boys u50kg
Gold: Ben White (Spitfire)
Silver: Mustafa Zahid (Counter Combat)
Boys u70kg
Gold : Muhammed Khan (Counter Combat)
Silver: Jack Andrews (Spitfire)
Girls u64kg
Gold: Zoe Klunder (Holland)
Silver: Izzy Namey (Spitfire)
Cadet Boys Open
Gold: Ethan Brims (Bedford)
Silver: Harvey Wilkinson (Burnley)
Bronze: Mohammed Elasmar (Counter
Combat)
Ladies Open
Gold: Zoe Klunder (Holland)
Silver: Megan Woods (Spitfire)
Bronze: Francesca Aspey (Spitfire)
Masters u68kg
Gold: Tom Lewis (Spitfire)
Silver: Tamas Javori (Warriors)
Masters u45, u74kg
Gold: Ashley Costa (Warriors)
Silver: Michael McKittrick (Team
Mushin)
u45, u82kg
Gold: Lee Carrott (Spitfire)
Silver: Adam Lindrop (Team Mushin)
Masters u45, u90kg
Gold: Oleg Sibilev (Sambist Academy)
Silver: Ian Bloy (Warriors)
Masters u45, u100kg
Gold: Georgi Georgiev (Cheshire Sambo)
Silver: Vladimir Vokresenskiy (Sambist
Academy)
Bronze: Steve Charlton (Warriors)
Masters u45, +100kg
Gold: Barry Gibson (Red Star)
Silver: YuriyHabarov (Sambist Academy)
Bronze: David Reed (Sambist Academy)
Masters +45, u74kg
Gold: Keith Brown (Warriors)
Silver: Michael Edmonson (Burnley)
Masters +45, u82kg
Gold: Steve Morrison
Silver: Martin Hennessy (Warriors)
Bronze: Keith Hadman (Spitfire)
Masters +45, u100kg
Gold: Brian Lister (Yorkshire Sambo)
Silver: Peter Wise (Warriors)
Men u62kg
Gold: Ruslands Nielands (Bournemouth)
Silver: Tom Lewis (Spitfire)
Men u68kg
Gold: Ruslands Nielands (Bournemouth)
Silver: Micheal McKittrick (Mushin
Academy)
Bronze: Tom Lewis (Spitfire)
Men u74kg
Gold: Billy Wilshire (Fightworx)
Silver: Owain Cullen (Warriors)
Bronze: Alhassan Timmy (Ghana)
Men u82kg
Gold:Jannik Wezill (Germany)
Silver: Ryan Cottom (Warriors)
Bronze: Lauris Zelvis (Bournemouth)
Men u90kg
Gold: James Rogers (Team Mushin)
Silver: Lewis Clarke (Warriors)
Bronze: Tom Burton (Cheshire Sambo)
Men u100kg
Gold: Jonathon Heron (Cheshire Sambo)
Silver: Nils Reedam (Holland)
Bronze: Danny Carrott (Spitfire)
Men 100+kg
Gold: Georgi Goergiev (Cheshire Sambo)
Silver: Barry Gibson (Red Star)
Bronze: Jack Wilson (Sambist Academy)
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Photo's British Open Sambo 2018
