Looking for Sambo School in LA area

[MosHonorableSan]

Hey I'm looking for a real sambo school in the Los Angeles area. My google searches have come up short. I was able to find one but it was Judo & Sambo which I know can go hand in hand however i wasn't sure about the instructor since it said he was a Judo and Ju-Jitsu black-belt and a holder of a degree titled "master of sport and sambo" or something. It sounded real gimmicky especially since I'm guessing Ju-Jitsu is referring to japanese ju jitsu. Anyways if anyone knows of any real sambo schools around LA, please share. Thank you!

 

[Uchi Mata]

Gokor's? Hayastan?

 

[liuk3]

How about Gokor at Hayastan.
http://www.gokor.com/#

 

[Minnja]

I think "Master of Sport and Sambo" is the actual title of a high-level Sambo practitioner isn't it?

 

[MosHonorableSan]

I think "Master of Sport and Sambo" is the actual title of a high-level Sambo practitioner isn't it?

I'm not sure i don't know a lot about sambo. i will check out gokors thanks

 

[MosHonorableSan]

Also I'm looking for like; strictly sambo. not sure if that exists out here

 

[selfcritical]

I think "Master of Sport and Sambo" is the actual title of a high-level Sambo practitioner isn't it?

Master of sport means someone who's accomplishments are equivalent to that of a national champion- how difficult it is to get depends on the sanctioning body. Harder to get MS in Russia than it is in say, Ukraine.

Which sambo ruleset are you looking to strictly compete in?

 

[selfcritical]

Also, even in Russia high-level sambo players are going to crosstrain with Judo or freestyle wrestling bare minimum. Every sambo player i know knows all the Japanese names for the throws, for example.

 

[Zankou]

I have never heard of a school out here that trains by real Sambo rules. Hayastan is as close as I think you could get, but they are much more judo and mma focused.

 

[jlee14]

is dynamo club still around? i trained with one of their guys and it seemed to be "traditional"

 

[Steve08]

I have never heard of a school out here that trains by real Sambo rules. Hayastan is as close as I think you could get, but they are much more judo and mma focused.

The one legit sambo club I have trained at also had more of a mixed ruleset, as they were preparing to compete in Judo and BJJ not just sambo-- with good fucking reason as you're lucky to have a human being with a beating heart across from you at a US Sambo tournament. For example, this guy at the club, Anton (made me tap to a triangle when we rolled btw), won gold at his weight class at the US Sambo Open. For a while, I thought that was impressive shit. Then I looked at the brackets a little more carefully and realized that he won gold by winning a single match in a two man division lol which pretty much says it all, and that's not his fault but I mean... yeah.

And this was the US Sambo Open, not some random shit.

 

[MosHonorableSan]

I'm not really sure about rule set, I'd just like to see the what kind of grappling they do to be honest. Like their philosophy for leg locks and ground game

 

[Zankou]

I'm not really sure about rule set, I'd just like to see the what kind of grappling they do to be honest. Like their philosophy for leg locks and ground game

Then you should just go to Hayastan, as that's what their ground game is like. Sick leg locks, and a sambo-type approach to newaza. Gokor is, of course, a monster leglocker, and highly skilled at sambo, as are all those Hayastan guys. Plus they have top-notch judo.

Honestly even if you wanted to compete under true sambo rules, I'd still recommend you train there. It's an elite academy for training all the grappling skills that matter in sambo; I doubt there are many, if any, pure sambo schools in the country that you could train better for sambo at.

 

[Ivaylo Ivanov]

Master of sport is title one gets, if he medals in national championship or if he coaches national medalist.
Distinguished master of sport would be repeated medalist or a coach of medalists.
International master of sport is international medalist or his coach and so on...
The highest rank could be translated as Teacher and its basically for people who create and run federations, publish theoretical and technical books and materials for sambo, have over 1000 students... Something like Eastern Promises Yoda...

And yeah, just go to Gokor.

 

[MosHonorableSan]

Thanks everyone!