Sambo Sambo thread!

[Emanuele]

I've just discovered a sambo phenomenon... Artem Osipenko!
Osipenko was born in Soviet Union (Russia) on 28th May 1988, at 9 years old he started karate, but finding it too boring, he switched to sport sambo one year later. In sambo he won everything: several times Russian national champion, some international titles, European champion and nine times World champion. He competed two times in judo (without any judo training), the first time in 2010 U23 Russian championships in the U100 kg weight division, arriving second. And one year later in senior Russian championships in the U100 kg weight division (he weighs 115 kg and is 1,90 m tall), arriving seventh. In my opinion one of the best sambo player in the World; if not the best.

 

[Chokez]

Hello, I just joined Sherdog forum to learn a little about training Sambo after listening to Vlad Koulikov speaking about Sambo/History on a podcast. Hoping to read up on the history of Sambo here or be guided to any good books on the subject.

Also hope to travel to Eastern Europe/Central Asia so looking forward to learning about other people's experiences doing this. I trained Muay Thai in some trips to Thailand and would like to find out if Sambo training is accessible for foreign visitors.

All advice is very gratefully received,

Chokez

 

[WhiteMousse]

I've been doing BJJ for almost seven years and I really think Sambo would compliment pretty well. Any advice on how to get into it? I live in Tampa and the only place I can find is a "class" at LA Fitness. Hard pass.

 

[Gabicho]

I've been doing BJJ for almost seven years and I really think Sambo would compliment pretty well. Any advice on how to get into it? I live in Tampa and the only place I can find is a "class" at LA Fitness. Hard pass.

Check the coach's credentianls.
Or better, just do judo. There should be a good club with qualified coaches in Tampa.
Most of it translates to SAMBO.

Judo ruleset sucks nowadays but you will be able to use all of it in SAMBO competition (except chokes in sport SAMBO). And with the BJJ, you're covered in case you'd ever want to compete in SAMBO.
Many good judoka and even wrestlers can have great success at a local/regional level in SAMBO competition.

Right now, it is not of the greatest importance or value to train SAMBO thinking of high performance. It is an amazing sport, but it is in a pitiful and agonizing state today, anyway; not an Olympic sport, the International Federation limits itself to hosting events in random dictatorships where war criminals can attend to and most national federations have only a handful of tournaments where you will see the same few dozen of guys over and over.

 

[shu80]

SAMBO tutorials at youtube show how they are similar to Judo as they work in standup - but it seems after getting on ground it lacks the holds to conveniently control a larger opponent

Please correct me if I am wrong - it seems basic wrestling does a better job ON GROUND but Sambo is better to GET ON GROUND from standup!