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V. A. Spiridinov, an officer of the Russian Army, and V. S. Oschepkov, the first Russian black belt in Judo, teamed up to produce Sport SAMBO. Spiridinov became one of the training experts of combat SAMBO and aided in it’s formulation. To create Sport SAMBO, he relied upon his background in American free-style wrestling, Pankration, Greco-Roman wrestling from the Baltic States, Georgian "Chidaoba", Moldavian "Trinte", Yakut "Khapsagay", Armenian "Kokh" - the national style of wrestling of Armenia, Chuvash "Akatuj", Turkish "Kuresh" belt-wrestling from Azerbaijan. Spiridinov was also a master of Japanese JuJitsu.
V.S. Oschepkov grew up in Japan and trained in the Kodokan-judo institute and was also a master the Japanese combat art of JuJitsu. While in Japan, he became a close personal friend of JuJitsu master, Professor Jigora Kano...
The collaboration and friendship between Oschepkov and Kano is of marked interest. Both men agreed that the most effective method of mastery was through a technique named: method sequencing or ‘kata’. These men coordinated their efforts at cataloguing the most common and frequent forms of attack. From that they codified what would be the most expedient neutralization of the threat. It is because of this work that many contemporary Judo and Sambo practitioners are fragmented into two camps: those that prepare for combat through sequence rehearsal,(Kata) and those that enjoin the competitive aspect to determine their prowess (Randori). Kano was an extremely insightful man revolutionizing martial arts training with his expertise in education. Oschepkov was outfitted with a most powerful instructional method, and carried it back to Russia, where he instructed studies in combat at the Central Red Army House and the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture.
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V. A. Spiridinov, an officer of the Russian Army, and V. S. Oschepkov, the first Russian black belt in Judo, teamed up to produce Sport SAMBO. Spiridinov became one of the training experts of combat SAMBO and aided in it’s formulation. To create Sport SAMBO, he relied upon his background in American free-style wrestling, Pankration, Greco-Roman wrestling from the Baltic States, Georgian "Chidaoba", Moldavian "Trinte", Yakut "Khapsagay", Armenian "Kokh" - the national style of wrestling of Armenia, Chuvash "Akatuj", Turkish "Kuresh" belt-wrestling from Azerbaijan. Spiridinov was also a master of Japanese JuJitsu.
V.S. Oschepkov grew up in Japan and trained in the Kodokan-judo institute and was also a master the Japanese combat art of JuJitsu. While in Japan, he became a close personal friend of JuJitsu master, Professor Jigora Kano...
The collaboration and friendship between Oschepkov and Kano is of marked interest. Both men agreed that the most effective method of mastery was through a technique named: method sequencing or ‘kata’. These men coordinated their efforts at cataloguing the most common and frequent forms of attack. From that they codified what would be the most expedient neutralization of the threat. It is because of this work that many contemporary Judo and Sambo practitioners are fragmented into two camps: those that prepare for combat through sequence rehearsal,(Kata) and those that enjoin the competitive aspect to determine their prowess (Randori). Kano was an extremely insightful man revolutionizing martial arts training with his expertise in education. Oschepkov was outfitted with a most powerful instructional method, and carried it back to Russia, where he instructed studies in combat at the Central Red Army House and the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture.
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