Wednesday, April 09, 2014

British Sambo/Combat Sambo Championship 2014

British Sambo/Combat Sambo Championships

April 5th 2014

Bedford
 
Mat was donated by F.I.A.S
As President of the British Sombo Federation I attended the British Open Sambo & Combat Sambo Championships held in Bedford. This has now become the main Venue for this event as it is central to the rest of the Country, has a first class aeroport and hotels plus it is a very beautiful and hospitable Town. The event attracted players from all over the World, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Portugal, France. Chechnya, Ghana, and Russia and of course the UK. The event was organised once again by BSF Vice President Russell Dodds and his Club the Bedford Grappling Academy.
 
Smart Looking Referees 
This year was not the best-attended event we have organised but in terms of quality it outstripped any thing we have done in the past and proved an exciting day for all. You knew as soon as the fighters walked in the door this was to be a quality event. It seems strange that we do not attract a lot of youngsters from Judo as Sambo bears a lot of similarities and the scoring and referee rules are far superior to Judo plus they are easy to understand but as one of the competitors said you play at Judo till you are 14 and then move on to the real stuff at 15.
 
Aln Kontozi here with Paul Sawyer Alan was one of our first International referees he refereed at the
World Games in London 1985 
Normally when I write reports like this I mention the Referees and Officials at the end of the report but this time I will change that as this year they worked hard to make the competition a success.
Competition Organiser – BSF Vice President Russell Dodds
Competition Controller – BSF Secretary
Referees- John Clarke, Stephen Sweetlove, Alan Kontozi, Darren Richardson, Vadim Kolganov, Colin Carrott, Paul Sawyer, Lee Till. Also thanks to Rebecca and Channel for manning the tables
 
under 15's
The Junior Sambo started the day not the most awing inspiring but they all tried very hard and enjoyed the event, all the youngsters came from Warriors Grappling Academy Sittingbourne, Spitfire Sombo and Judo Club Folkestone and Bedford Grappling Academy a big thank you to them for supporting the event. Hopefully they will continue to run local events to encourage the children.
 
Who did score 
It was the senior event we were all looking forward to here are some of the top names who were due to compete, Matt Clempner England, Karl Etherington England, Ashley Costa England, Danny Carrott England, Jamie Marzetti England, Danny Roberts Scotland, Vesekin Ivanov Bulgaria, Georgia Georgiev Bulgaria, Alex Amoako Ghana, Barry Gibson England. This was an International line up.


I am not going to write a report on every match but just highlight some of the better matches.
 
Martin Val Vadim Darren 
Sambo
Karl Etherington completely dominated the 0100k class beating everyone with maximum points, Karl was a member of the British Judo Team.
 
Brilliant Throw in the Ladies Group
U100k class we allowed players from the U90k class to enter this event as well at the request of the players. Georgi Georgiev Bulgaria and last years winner won the title again this year but it was much harder competition for him he had to fight Danny Roberts a previous  British Champion and student of his he won this on a margin of 2 pts. The excitement of the day was him verses Matt Clempner. Matt was a World Bronze medallist in the O100k class in 2012 he now fights Combat Sambo, Pro Cage and there is talk of him becoming a Pro Boxer. He has dropped his weight from 125k to 89k. The match was an interesting one with Georgiou experience as an International Judo and Sambo player against the equivalent experience of Matt so they were completely equal. As the fight progressed Matt gained a 2pt advantage and it looked like he was a possible winner. Fate was to interfere some weeks ago Matt had damaged his ribs and during this bout the rib injury reoccurred so he had to withdraw. Would he have won who knows? what a great match.
 
Ladies
Matt had already competed in the u90k class, which he won by beating Danny Roberts on a close run fight.
 
Just Dancing
U82k class was a final between two adversaries who train regularly together both had been British Champions they were Jamie Marzetti Warriors Grappling Academy and Danny Carrott Spitfire Sombo. Danny has been British Champion at u100k, u90k and now has dropped to u82k. The fight as expected was very tactical and up to the dying minutes Jamie was in the lead by 1 pt. but with seconds to go Jamie made a mistake and Danny took the advantage to get a 4pt holds down. British Champion in three different weight groups not a bad achievement
 
Danny Carrott
U74k Class Ashley Costa was favourite to win this event as a previous British champions and International it seemed nothing would stand in his way. I have taught countless Champions British and World Champions but the two I class as my most technically successful and proficient have been my son John and Ashley Costa. As I know longer Coach on a regularly basis Ashley’s announcement that this would be his last British Championship would be an end an era for me, my son John retired through injury some years ago. So watching Ashley fighting took 20 years of me and brought me back to my glory days of coaching. Ashley had been sailing through his opponents using some very fast drop shoulder throws and a pick up throw was most probably the best technique of the day. So when he met Ryan Richards from Red Star I thought it was to be another win far from it. Maybe Ashley started of a bit to relaxed but his attempt at a pick up failed and Ryan countered him with a 4 pt throw this was soon followed by another 4 pt throw, it must have suddenly dawned on Ashley that he was on the point of losing. Then he switched into another mind set and piled on the techniques to win with 20pts to 8pts  a tremendous win for an exceptional player




Ashley's Pickup

U68k class was quite an evenly matched event wit the Bulgarian VESELIN IVANOV Combat Sambo Champion winning the Gold leaving Casey Belsey and ALEX AMAOKO to fight for silver. Alex dominated this match beating Casey by significant points lead to take well-deserved silver.


Ladies Open Emily Crawford won this event in some style. This event was of an exceptional good standard and was interesting to watch with all the Young Ladies trying big throws. Most probably the Best ladies Sambo fights I have seen in GB for years
 
Ladies Medals 

Matt Clempner was presented with a BSF Master of Sambo Certificate for his World Bronze in 2012 the first World medal for GB in over 20 years


Next up was the Combat Sambo this is a relatively new sport to the UK and we are still in the Novice stage when organising these events. This year the BSF insisted that correct equipment was to be worn and as you can see in the photo’s it make for better presentation of the sport. Yet we still had problems with correct coloured safety equipment for Combat Sambo. Although the entry form had been sent out nearly 4 months in advance and countless emails had been sent on numerous occasions we still had competitors turning up with the wrong coloured equipment, my own feeling was they knew the rules and should be disqualified the BSF Committee over ruled me and let them compete. Next year I believe we should check equipment at weigh in and only allow BSF sanctioned equipment.


The difference in standard in Sambo i.e. between a Club standard Player and National Standard Player is not that important in terms of injury but with Combat Sambo that is totally different because Full Contact Punches and Kicks are allowed which can cause serious injury. So when we realised that we had Karl Etherington with 10 Pro fights behind him, we asked him to step down because he was up against Novice and Club Class players he totally agreed. Saying that everyone should be matched against someone of his or her own standard. Matt Clempner another Pro fighter also withdrew
European Gold Medallist Combat Sambo VESELIN IVANOV won his weight group with ease making it more of exhibition fights, this was not denigrate his opponent who were quite prepared to take him on and that took courage in itself.
There were three Groups in this Combat Sambo competition as the years go by I am sure it will get bigger when that happens we need to Introduce Novice Class, Intermediate Class and advanced Class for the safety of the competitors.
I expect both Matt Clempner and Karl Etherington will be selected for the Worlds in Japan but that is up to Darren Richardson and Combat Sambo Committee to decide, the same applies to the Sambo where it will be John Clarke and his committee will select the players. BUT everything comes down to money the BSF is the UKSport recognised body but it receives no funding and not being an Olympic Sport funding will be practically impossible. Always amazes me Football with its £billions still get Tax Payers funding and we get nothing?


This was really good event it saw some excellent Sambo in fact the best ever seen in the British Open, it saw the growing of British Combat Sambo but most of all it was most probably the friendliest event I have been to for many years

Remind you that the end of April there is a Grappling Competition at Sittingbourne Warriors Grappling Academy, July Scottish Sambo Open, September Bedford Open Judo and Sambo, November Swallows Sittingbourne Junior Judo, Senior Sambo, Senior Kurash, Senior Belt Wrestling, Senior MMA Grappling Event

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name
group
place
club/country

SAMBO









MITCHEL CROSSWELL
LIGHT
GOLD
WGA
BCSA
MILAN MAL
WEIGHT
SILVER
BGA
BCSA
ARCHIE MOORE
BOYS
BRONZE
BGA
BCSA





KIERAN WEBB
MIDDLE
GOLD
WGA
BCSA
HARVEY TOLMAN
WEIGHT
SILVER
SJS
BCSA
REGAN SANDS
BOYS
BRONZE
WGA
BCSA





LUKE SAUNDERS
HEAVY
GOLD
BGA
BCSA
JACK SAUNDERS
WEIGHT
SILVER
BGA
BCSA
THOMAS DELOUBES
BOYS
BRONZE
BGA
BCSA





TOM NICHOLS
YOUTH
GOLD
FORMA

JACK SPROTSON
BOYS
SILVER
SJS
BCSA
TAYVON CHARLES

BRONZE
BGA
BCSA





EMILY CRAWFORD
WOMEN
GOLD
BGA
BCSA
KERRY PENFOLD
OPEN
SILVER
SJS
BCSA
DEBBIE JACKSON

BRONZE
WGA
BCSA

MEN



VESELIN IVANOV
U 68
GOLD
Bulgaria
BCSA
ALEX AMAOKO

SILVER
GHANA
FORMA
CASEY BELSEY

BRONZE
WGA
BCSA





ASHLEY COSTA
U74
GOLD
WGA
BCSA
RYAN RICHARDSON

SILVER
REDSTAR

IAN DOBSON

BRONZE
FORMA






DANNY CARROTT
U82
GOLD
SJS
BCSA
JAMIE MARZETTI

SILVER
WGA
BCSA
JALARI DAMIROV

BRONZE
RFA






MATTHEW CLEMPNER
U90
GOLD
FORMA

DANNY ROBERTS

SILVER
FORMA






GEORGIE GEORGIEV
U100
GOLD
FORMA

DANNY ROBERTS

SILVER
FORMA

BARRY GIBSON

BRONZE
REDSTAR






KARL ETHERINGTON
O100
GOLD
FORMA

RYAN SYLVESTER

SILVER
SJS
BCSA
STUART HEALER

BRONZE
REDSTAR






COMBAT SAMBO









VESELIN IVANOV
U68
GOLD
BULGARIA
BCSA
JOEL RICHARDS

SILVER

BCSA





MATTHEW PICKERING
U82
GOLD
Mushin
UKSA
JAMIE RODGERS

SILVER
Mushin
UKSA
JALARI DAMIROV

BRONZE
Glasgow
RFA





BRENDON HOWARD
O100
GOLD
MSS
BCSA
BARRY GIBSON

SILVER
REDSTAR

WINSTON SHAKESPHERE

BRONZE
BGA
UK





Warroirs Grappling Academy

WGA


Bedford Grappling

BGA


Mixed Sambo Style

MSS


Spitfire Judo/Sambo

SJS






















British CombatSombo Association

BCSA


Federation of Russian Martial Arts

FORMA


Russian Fighting Arts

RFA


Redstar Sambo/Budo

Redstar


United Kingdom Sambo Association

UKSA




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