The popularity of sambo in our country, undoubtedly, was facilitated by the fact that the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin. The history of the creation of sambo is interesting - this amazing system that has absorbed the elements of many martial arts of different peoples of the world.
SAMO-protection Without Weapons - this is how SAMBO stands for. The rules of modern grammar allow you to write this word without capital letters: sambo. This complex of self-defense techniques is at the same time a sports discipline.
The basics of the self-defense system were developed at the beginning of the twentieth century by the famous Russian fighter I. V. Lebedev as a course for training police officers. In 1914, this course was taken by thirty city and district overseers, who received instructor diplomas. After the October Revolution, the improvement of the Lebedev system was continued by the Moscow sports society "Dynamo", where policemen, security officers and border guards were engaged in physical self-training.
The section for the study and development of applied techniques was headed by V. A. Spiridonov. This man owned the Japanese jiu-jitsu system, and included some of its techniques in the Lebedev complex. The new system was also enriched by the technique of English boxing strikes, captures and throws of the French wrestling and many other techniques of foreign and domestic martial arts.
On November 16, 1938, the new system was officially approved by the USSR Sports Committee under the name “freestyle wrestling”. The name "sambo" was given to this type of wrestling in 1947.
There are two types of SAMBO: combat and sports. Combat sambo was "declassified" only in 1991, and before that only members of power structures were trained in it. Combat sambo is now a separate sport.
The SAMBO system, created as a system of combat and sports training, turned out to be very effective in terms of improving the health of athletes. Therefore, the opening of SAMBO sections for children has recently become relevant. Thus, modern sambo, intended for a wide contingent, has three directions: sports; applied; wellness. Everyone who wants to practice sambo can choose a direction that interests him.