Presidents Cup

Presidents' Cup is sponsored by 

"Jewelers of North Capital" ( St. Petersburg)"

Jewelers of North Capital" ( St. Petersburg)

AUGUST SPECIAL

AN AUGUST SPECIAL

A student from the USA is travelling to Sittingbourne to take advantage of the Judo/Sombo Course but to take advantage of him being here we will be offering extra days with Colin Carrott 4^th Dan Judo/Master of Sambo. The course will start Tuesday August 19^th and the price will include the Friday Night and Saturday section plus training every night with members of the Warriors and Young judo Club. Book before July 10^th the fee is £250 after July 10^th £300

For further details contact IBFBCSA@Gmail.com or Colin Carrott delmaine@aol.com Money can be paid to Warriors Grappling Academy 127 east Street Sittingbourne Kent ME10 4BL, PayPal can be arrange and internet banking

FIGHT NIGHT AND JUDO/SOMBO COURSE 22^ND/23^RD OF AUGUST.

FIGHT NIGHT ON 22ND.

FIGHT NIGHT CONSIST OF 45MIN OF GROUND WORK FIGHTING FOLLOWED BY 45MIN OF STANDING FIGHTING. THIS IS FOR ALL JACKET WRESTLING PEOPLE IE JUDO, SOMBO, KURASH ETC.

START TIME 8PM AND THE PRICE IS £5 OPEN TO ANYONE OVER THE AGE OF 11.

JUDO/SOMBO COURSE ON 23^RD.

THIS COURSE IS FOR ANY IBF MEMBER OVER THE AGE OF 11 AND WILL COVER ALL ASPECTS OF THE JUDO AND SOMBO SYLLABUS EXPECT KATA, AND INSTRUCTOR LEVEL 1,2 AND 3.

ANYONE WISHING TO GRADE OR RENEW OR EVEN MOVE UP AN INSTRUCTOR LEVEL THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED. YOU MAY EVEN WISH TO JUST IMPROVE YOU KNOWLEDGE.

START TIME IS 10AM AND THE GRADING FOR ANYONE NOT ON THE COURSE WILL BE AT 5PM. THE PRICE IS £50 BEFORE THE 10^TH July  . ANYONE NOT BOOKED IN BEFORE 10^TH July WILL HAVE TO PAY THE £80.

ALL GRADING FEE ARE £10 FOR KYU GRADE AND £30 FOR 1st DAN £40 FOR 2^ND DAN AND £50 FOR 3^RD DAN AND SO ON.

ANY ONE WISHING TO DO AN INSTRUCTOR EXAM THE FEE IS £10 MANY THANKS

JOHN CLARKE 5^TH DAN JUDO/SOMBO

This is not my petition

A Petition is being circulated called

"Martin Clarke: Women to compete in Combat Sambo"

This Petition is in no way connected to me.  As BSF President I have to remain neutral for any alteration to Rules of the Sport and Constitution until it has been discussed by the BSF EC and put to the AGM

These suggestions should be put forward to the BSF EC and a petition of BSF members; these members have to be verified, would be welcomed. The BSF will discuss this along with other suggestions like “All Male and Female events should be abolished and the term should be Adult Competition were both sexes meet as equals”

I would like to point out that in GB there is very little interest in Combat Sambo as was seen by the entry at the British Open. Hopefully the Presidents Cup will rectify this

Martin Clarke

BSF President

Presidents Cup-Europeans

The Presidents Cup to be held at the GLOW Bluewater Centre Dartford on Saturday September 27th 2014 http://combatarts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/two-sambo-spectaculars-in-england-2014.html has attracted a great deal of Media interest especially from the Martial Arts Fraternity. FEDOR EMELYANENKO and OLEG TAKTAROV most probably Russia's 2 greatest fighters hope to be in attendance. The spectator seating for this event will be 800 and the BSF have been allocated a 100 seats. Overall organiser is Andrew Moshanov FIAS Technical Advisor, the BSF have a vital part to play as Consultants to the event and are pulling out all the stops to make this an event to be proud of.

In the next few weeks tickets will be available as will publicity packages, this is an an event not to be missed especially as Russia will be sending their top fighters. So if you want see Sambo and Combat Sambo at its best make sure you are there.

Why is it called the "PRESIDENTS CUP" quite simply it is in appreciation of all the FIAS Presidents throughout the World it is a practical way of saying thankyou for the work they have done for World Wide Sambo

Wit many Commonwealth Countries being involved in this event it made good sense to organise the Commonwealth Sambo Championships the following day. The BSF will be helping out with this event by supplying table officials but the overall organiser are Lord Simon Reading President CSA and Andrew Moshanov FIAS Technical Advisor. In the next few weeks full details of this event will be available

M.A.I.

Martial Arts Illustrated

This Magazine has done us proud this month with articles on Sambo and Judo. So get to your news agent for a souvenir copy. M.A.I. is one of Europes largest selling Martial Arts Magazine and they also have a Internet Magazine  http://www.martialartsunltd.co.uk

Faversham Open Judo

Bob Bradley R.I.P.

Bob Bradley a well known Judoka in the 1970's has died following an accident at his home he was just 67 years old. Bob a Superheavy Player had won every Judo Associations National Judo Championships and represented all of them at International Level, he was also an International Free Style Wrestler and Sambo Player.

Bob was very much my Bogey man I fought him on several occasions during the 1970's although I beat him a few times he had bested me more time the I beat him. Looking back I felt I was the better player but every now and then you come up against someone who just syches you out and Bob was that one for me. I think it was because when I was 22/23 nobody was beating me and that made me arrogant, then along came Bob who beat me, this obviously knocked my confidence especially as Bob was a showman and would parade after a win, this humiliated me as well. Funnily enough this defeat made me train harder and I got a lot better but I just could not get over the defeat against Bob every time I met him.

My last match with him was in the BJA 1978 Southern Area Open because I had joined the BJA from the BJC I was not particularly like by the hierarchy in the Southern Area BJA and to top it all me the so called inferior judoka from another organisation had the cheek to win the British Trials. Refereeing in those days was slightly political so I was prepared for some shall we say some suspect refereeing. I lost on a rather dubious penalty score. I never competed in that event again.

Bob was a large man and was well respected and his Harai Makikomi was awesome, he was not a Starbrook, Jacks or Adams but those who followed grappling will remember him with affection and respect


Martin Clarke

International Cadet Sambo Tournament

"International Tournament "POBEDA" took place in St.Petersburg this weekend.

This is the 24th Annual tournament with the great traditions and long history behind it. It was initially organised to commemorate the V-Day and approved by the President of Russia as a means of sports and cultural education for the children. 

It takes place in the same Sports Arena St. Petersburg "Yubileiny" where the latest World Championships 2013 was staged. The 29 full cadet teams of various Russian regions and other countries as Finland, Latvia, USA, etc., came here to participate and compete for the main Trophy.

Practically, this tournament is one of the most established cadet tournaments of this kind in Russia and is the same mature as our British Open, which was staged last year for the 25th time here in Bedford.

With Sombo on the rise in Great Britain - we look very enthusiastic to the perspective to participate there in St. Petersburg in the 25th Anniversary Tournament next year in 2015

Good luck to all teams in the tournament "Pobeda"!!!

Full results and Photos will appear next week

Preview World Championships Japan November 2014

Preview World Championships Japan November 2014

Be Safe Be Insured

I am pleased to see that our IBF/BCSA Members/Coaches/Clubs have been very prompt in renewing their membership. Insurance is a very important part of the Combat Arts. In this day and age training, competing, coaching without insurance is the height of folly as is not insuring your club. The IBF/BCSA would obviously like you to join us but the important thing is to get insurance from a reputable company.

We in the IBF/BCSA cover nearly all Mat based Combat Discipline we now even cover Combat Sambo players at BSF sanctioned events but we do not cover anything that uses live blades or anything in a ring or cage. The main reason is we do not cater for those types of activities 

BE SAFE BE INSURED

Skinny Sumo

I had a discussion with Tim Thomas Yesterday and said a Good Bigun will always beat a Good Littleun. Well look at the Youtube clip below I may have been hasty in what I said. Notice the use of O Uchi Gari and Uchi Mata

Chinese Strike Grapple

Came across this Martial Art from China very similar to Combat Sambo without Jackets. Worth a watch

TWO SAMBO SPECTACULARS IN ENGLAND 2014

TWO SAMBO SPECTACULARS IN ENGLAND 2014

                                                       

PRESIDENTS CUP

Sponsore 

"Jewelers of North Capital" ( St. Petersburg)

The Long awaited Presidents Cup is to be held on September 27^th 2014 at the GLOW Bluewater Centre Dartford Kent. http://www.glowbluewater.co.uk

This will prove to be the most exciting Sambo/Combat Sambo Event to be held in the UK since 1992 when the BSF organised the World Sambo Championships in Herne Bay Kent.The Presidents Cup is a Joint Venture between the Commonwealth Sambo Association and British Sombo Federation; the whole event will be co-ordinated by FIAS Representative Andrew Moshanov. We are extremely pleased to have "Jewelers of North Capital" ( St. Petersburg)” as our sponsor because without them the whole event would be a no go, our sponsors are very keen in supporting Sambo 

Originally the event was to be a Cultural Event to be held in the City of London but things have changed since then and it has now come purely a sporting event with the aim to promote Sambo/Combat Sambo throughout the UK and the Commonwealth. This will help to promote our application for Sambo to become an Olympic Sport

The Venue of GLOW at Bluewater Dartford was a stroke of genius, this a large venue is part of the massive Bluewater Shopping centre, it is easy to reach as has lots of free parking and for a Sporting Event is far better position then Central London. WE will see two International size mat Areas and seating for a 1000.

The whole event will be covered by the Internet TV Channel SAMBO-FIAS.ORG CHANNEL 1 so all the action will be seen throughout the World, so even those who can make the event can watch it from your computer

The Presidents Cup will be rather unique in that it will be a team event with 8 teams competing for the Presidents Cup. They will be Great Britain, Russia, Belorussia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan,

Commonwealth (Americas/Europe). Commonwealth (Africa), Commonwealth (Oceania/Asia). Amongst the teams there will be many World and European Champions 

Teams will consist Sambo Men, 2 Sambo Women and 2 Combat Sambo Men. Weights will be as follows Sambo men u62k, u68k, u74k, u82k, u90k, Sambo Ladies u64k, 64k to 80k, Combat Sambo Men u100k, and o100k. Each Team will line up against each other at the beginning of each event and the atmosphere will be electric.

This event is not to be missed. Not just for Sambo enthusiasts but also for all those who enjoy Grappling and Grapple/Strike. The ticket office will be open at the end of July.

It is hoped to have many important guests and some celebrities at this event but the one person the BSF are looking forwarding meeting again is FIAS President Shestakov. Since he has been FIAS President he done more for British Sambo then any other FIAS administration.

In the next three week the British Sombo Federation will be announcing their team for this event

 

COMMONWEALTH 

SAMBO 

CHAMPIONSHIPS

With many Commonwealth countries being present at the Presidents Cup, The CSA decided to run their 1^st Commonwealth Championships in England. I am sure that CSA President Lord

Simon Reading saw this as very appropriate as the Commonwealth stems from the British Empire. The Commonwealth Games has always been considered the friendly games a meeting of a large family of countries with one thing in common Great Britain and I am sure the Commonwealth Sambo Championships will be no different. The event will be held the day after the Presidents Cup it is hoped to have a venue in the Dartford area.

This will event will not be a Team event it will be an individual event with all the relevant International Weight Categories. To enter you

have register through your home country and have the relevant Citizenship for that country.

For those living in the UK your Country Representatives are England Russell Dodds, Scotland Robin Hyslop, Northern Ireland Chris St John at present we do not have a Welsh Federation but hopefully that will change in the next few months

This again is a unique event to held in the UK yet to have 2 major International Events in one country in 1 year is great but to have two major events in one weekend is fantastic a thing dreams are made of

Watch this space for future Information on these two great Tournaments contact us as at IBFBCSA@Gmail.com

British Sambo/Combat Sambo Championship 2014

British Sambo/Combat Sambo Championships

April 5^th 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

More information contact IBFBCSA@Gmail.com

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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