Also known as
самозащита без оружия · Samozashchita bez oruzhiya
Description
Sambo (Russian: сaмбо, pronounced [ˈsambə]) is a martial art with Soviet
origins, an internationally practised combat sport, and a recognized style of
amateur wrestling included by UWW in the World Wrestling Championships along
with Graeco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling. It originated in the
Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union. The word sambo is an acronym of samozashchita
bez oruzhiya (Russian: самозащита без оружия), which literally translates to
'self-defence without weapons'. SAMBO is a martial art and combat sport
developed and used by the Soviet Red Army in the early 1920s to improve their
hand-to-hand combat abilities. The sport is similar in many ways to judo and jiu
jitsu but also incorporates different types of wrestling and various
self-defence systems. Soviet martial arts expert Vasili Oshchepkov is credited
as one of the founding fathers of SAMBO.
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Sambo. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage
Database. https://martial.is/entity/01KJJAWN29MA64W22606R3WD9H - CC BY-SA 4.0.
Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01KJJAWN29MA64W22606R3WD9H, author = {Muñoz, Frederico},
title = {Sambo}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year =
{YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url =
{https://martial.is/entity/01KJJAWN29MA64W22606R3WD9H}, urldate =
{ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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