Sambo
It is commonly referred as Sombo and in Russian it is written as Cambo. Whatever the name and its pronunciation, Sambo is a unique style of martial arts that has caused arguments amongst its UK and US practitioners concerning its spelling. The problem is that the word Sambo is an offensive word in these counties. While US-UK practitioners want the name to be spelled as Sombo, the Russian instructors continue using the word Cambo or Sambo.
The three prominent personalities who created Sambo (sorry for using the offensive word) are: Vasily Oschchepkov, Victor Spriridonov and Anatoly Kharlampiev. It all began in 1920s when USSR was newly formed. They began studying the fighting systems of the fifteen republics of USSR. Some of them were very old, dating to 10th century and then there were European and Oriental fighting systems
They studied all the techniques deeply, took a lot of trials and experiments, refined the various techniques and came out with a self-defending system, which they called Sambo. The name got official recognition in 1938.
The result was predominantly a grappling based style with an emphasis on real-life self-defense scenarios and practical ways to neutralize a threat. Later Sambo was divided into other categories. Sport Sambo is an international submission-wrestling sport, and Combat Sambo is the martial art version used by “Spetsnaz” the Russian elite forces.
Liz Tomey
www.FightClubNews.com
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