The Russian martial art of Sambo was developed in the first several decades of the 20th century, in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution and the fall of the czarist regime. A martial arts training program within the Bolsheviks Red Army produced a new hand-to-hand combat system derived partly from traditional Russian and other native regional wrestling or grappling styles and influenced by various foreign martial arts, notably Judo and Jujitsu, as well as the traditional Olympic sports of boxing and Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling. The new system was dubbed Sambo (sometimes written Sombo or SAMBO), which is an acronym of the Russian words Samozaschita Bez Orujiya, or self-defense without weapon. From the beginning, Sambo has been a constantly changing system, adapting itself to fit the needs of its fighters, from soldiers on the battlefields of World War II to crime fighters on the streets of Moscow. Today, Sambo is practiced in three distinct ways: as a competitive sport, as a self-defense method and as a lethal combat system employed by police and military forces. Sometimes incorrectly referred to as Russian Judo, Sambo was recognized as an official sport in 1938. It was included in the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 as a demonstration sport, though it failed to gain the popularity necessary to become a competitive event. As a self-defense method, Sambo is based on body movements and joint locks, combined with punches and kicks, all aimed at defending ones self …
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In my opinion the best martial art depends on your goal.
If you’re looking for realism and military training, practice something that incorporates brutal standup (Muay Thai) and Grappling & Submission (Sambo / BJJ)
Great thing about Sambo is its all incorporated.
@cycoman702 no one cares about america
Basketbrawl is better than basketball.
in america we call it jungle ball
so as you’re blacking out, you’re also getting pulled apart. like a.. a… a chicken! its fun.
@johnsalchijohn sure, you’re right. I myself like Sambo for the quick knock-outs and Krav Maga for the versatility in modern day life going from disarming to self defense to knocking out. Also like Capoiera because of the elegance
am I the only one who thinks that basket brawl looks like the funniest thing ever and all martial arts should have some sort of variant
@sgthobbes2 comment not meant 4 u sorry bout that
@pillsburydoughboy47 u sir are a obvious idiot racist bigget go watch some more news your teachers want to teach you some more inacurate stupid shit
@jongee37 comment meant 4 pillsburydoughboy 47
@sgthobbes2 ur a idiotic racist bigget go watch some more news so u can learn some more about the world there teaching you well dumb ass
@MrEpicc
it is! i thought we were the only psychopaths plaing that game … lol
@pillsburydoughboy47 dude i know who he is i’m muslim but what has he to do with this fuck you douche
@sumoshinobi he is the “prophet of Islam,” and I’m just saying he could probably get his ass kicked by these Sambo guys.
@pillsburydoughboy47 why are you talking about muhammad what does he have to do with any of this
minutes of heaven, jesus. What came up with that?
I dont think i can even take 20 seconds of that. …
Basketbrawl in English is Rugby. Lol.
my only regret from high school, is not having stuck with wrestling; shoulda stuck with it all the way through from 7th grade. It was tough as hell, and losing sucked so bad sometimes I wimpered like a sissy, but I had fun. Wrestling will literally squeeze all arrogance out of you man, I can understand why it was seen as a badge of manhood in so many cultures. Personally though I doubt Muhamad the prophet of Islam was a good wrestler; too much of an asshole. Good wrestlers are generally nice
@pillsburydoughboy47 You could say that it is. Catch is really just a term for western wrestling styles going back hundreds of years, so it’s more of a precursor to modern formats in the West, but speaking strictly of the movements, yeah, catch is an expansion on the more common styles.
I practice Yang style Tai Chi though which, believe it or not is actually a standing grappling style, although its approach is a bit different.
You mean, freestyle is basically the foundation of catch?
Now that I recall, yeah, it may have been free style. I fucking hated it though it was restricted to pins. Additionally, like I said I lost on points and I had so many times, where I was positioned for a joint lock or choke, its painful to think back!
thanks for the advice though.
@pillsburydoughboy47 Just google your town or city and Brazilian jiu jitsu and you should find plenty. For note, high schools do not teach catch wrestling. They teach folk, freestyle, or greco roman. Catch wrestling has positional movement and controls similar to folkstyle, but involves jointlocks, chokes, and generally more varied takedowns.
I am neither a “big hits” or “combo” oriented person; rather, I like to think of myself as a “use combos to set up big hits” type person. If BJJ or Judo follow a “combo to set up the big hit” approach to grappling again, where the hell do I sign up?
even though he didn’t strength train all he did was wrestle.
Dude, always losing is nothing to be proud of but, I was never pinned, ever, during matches, okay I was, but only once. All my other losses? Just points.
Probably shoulda taken Judo in college or something; explored my grappling potential some more. Oh well; hey, you say that BJJ has a “links in a chain” approach to grappling? That is one move flowing into the next?
again, sign me up.
with that background, he then threw us, the team, against guys who had been doing it since the age of 5, some of them with family legacies of wrestling champs in the region.
and you know what? I was only pinned once, I always only lost on points. The ONE guy who pinned me, was this horrifically strong native american guy, whose strength edge was in part given to him by weight training, that is how I got interested. His older brother though, was still strong.
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