MINSK (AFP) – With factors of judo, karate, boxing, Greco-Roman wrestling, and extra, Sambo was created to teach the forces of the Soviet Union and remains shown inside the Russian navy. As a game dating back to 1930, it has caught interest this month at the European Games in Minsk. Now, its backers are focused on the Olympics. The history of Sambo – the name of which comes from a contraction of the Russian word “self-defense without guns” – is intently tied to that of the United States. For decades, teacher Anatoly Kharlampiyev was held up as the father of the game, said to be an aggregate of pre-current Slavic combat bureaucracy.
It became handiest in 1982, three years after Kharlampiyev died that the position of former squaddies Victor Spiridonov and Vasily Oshchepkov became made public. Oshchepkov became a judo professional who had studied in Japan and later trained Red Army foot soldiers and changed into properly conscious that Sambo owed an awful lot to Asian martial arts. But in Stalin’s USSR, everything from overseas became a problem of suspicion. Oshchepkov was arrested for spying for Japan, despatched to the Gulag, and performed in 1938.
In Russia, star warring parties in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) – some other famous discipline within the United States of America – all say they came to the sport through Sambo. Unlike the fight version used within the military, the game of Sambo is not violent and relies on restraining instead of putting opponents. President of the International Sambo Federation, Vasily Shestakov, reportedly hoped the game would be included in the Olympics. Last November, IOC officers granted sambo brief IOC popularity, bringing it a step toward turning into an Olympic sport sooner or later. Russian President Vladimir Putin, a martial arts enthusiast, has long championed the game.
