Newsletter of the American Sambo Association. Vol. 8, No. 6. November-December, 2010

SPECIAL END OF YEAR EDITION: CONTENTS 1) President’s remarks 2) North American Freestyle Sambo

Championships Results 3) Pioneer of American Sambo Award

Honorees 4) ASA sponsors No Holds Barred with Eddie

Goldman 5) Support the Coalition to Legalize Mixed

Martial Arts in New York 6) ASA Training trip to Spartak OTC, Ukraine 7) “Early SAMBO’s Secret Research Tool” by Scott Anderson 8) 2011 ASA and Sambo in the press

A Word from the President Greetings everyone, As we close out 2010, we have to be thankful for how great this year has been for Sambo in the US! We have gotten tremendous press and the ASA has made many strides. Some of which you will read about in this issue of our newsletter. But, the closing of a year is also a time to laugh and have fun! So, in the spirit of

poking fun at our non-Sambo grappler comrades, here is a small video I whipped up called “Day in the Life of a Sambo Guy.” Enjoy the laugh and have a great New Year! I can’t wait to see you all on the mat and at our training camps in 2011! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk9hKQc0pM0 Lastly, I want to thank all our ASA officers and members who have dedicated themselves to making this association the success it has become! In particular I want to thank Aaron Fields and Gregg Humphreys for their uncompromising support. I also want to thank Grant and Marie Gilliam for making it possible to plant the ASA flag in Texas this year! Sincerely, Stephen Koepfer, ASA President

7th Annual North American Freestyle Sambo™ Championships Results: 2010 North American Freestyle Sambo Championships. Austin, Texas November 6, 2010

60kg: Gold - Mike Chesbro (NY Combat Sambo, New York) Silver - Scotty Spassky (Eclectic Combat Systems, Texas)

74kg: Gold - Chris Bowles (Guy Mezger's Combat Club, Texas) Silver - Mark Stites (Faixa Preta MMA, Texas) Bronze - Michael Vermaelen Jr. (LA Boxing, Louisiana)

84kg: Gold - Evgeny Podlepaev (Sea Town Sambo/Seattle JuJitsu, Washington) Silver - Gabe Miller (LA Boxing, Louisiana) Bronze - Travis Joyner (Eclectic Combat Systems, Texas)

96kg: Gold - Doug Fournet (LA Boxing, Louisiana) Silver - Justin McCready (Vandry BJJ, Texas)

+96kg: Gold - Danny Wenger (Eclectic Combat Systems, Texas) Silver - Carlos Cummings (Cummings Combat Sambo, Florida) Bronze - Sean Yalowicki (Sea Town Sambo/Seattle JuJitsu, Washington)

Our ASA/M1 Global Awaard Winners:

Best Throw: Elliot Wallace (Guy Mezger's Combat Club, Texas) Fastest Sub: Chris Bowles (Guy Mezger's Combat Club, Texas) Best Match(es): Evgeny Podlepaev (Sea Town Sambo/Seattle JuJitsu, Washington) and Travis Joyner (Eclectic Combat Systems, Texas) Statistics: Total number of matches: 30 Wins by… Points: 13 Choke: 5 Foot locks: 4 Kneebars: 1 Armbar: 3 Shoulder lock: 2 Chest Compression: 1 Injury: 1 Fastest Submissions (under 1:30): -Chris Bowles defeats Stephen McLaughlin at :19 via RNC -Doug Fournet defeats Justin McCready at :54 via achilles lock -Doug Fournet defeats Justin McCready at :55 via kneebar -Chris Bowles defeats Mark Stites at 1:05 via toe hold -Travis Joyner defeats John McLaughlin at 1:08 via choke -Chris Bowles defeats Enrique Limon at 1:08 via shoulder lock -Mike Chesbro defeats Scotty Spassky at 1:13 via armbar -Mike Vermaelen defeats Stephen McLaughlin at 1:30 via choke

Clubs Represented: Cummings Combat Sambo (Florida) Eclectic Combat Systems (Texas) Faixa Preta MMA (Texas) Guy Mezger’s Combat Sports Club (Texas) LA Boxing Baton Rouge (Louisiana) New York Combat Sambo (New York) Sea Town Sambo (Washington) Vandry BJJ (Texas) View a highlight reel from this year’s event here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM-4Fo87hso A HUGE thanks to our event sponsors! Please take a moment to visit their websites:

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2009 – 2010 Pioneer Awards The ASA is proud to announce the "Pioneer of American Sambo" Award winners for 2009 and 2010. James "Chico" Hernandez and Ron Tripp! All nominees were very worthy! However, here is how the ASA member voting broke down: Ron Tripp - 50% James "Chico" Hernandez - 24% Greg Gibson - 20% Carlos Cummings - 6% Congrats to all the nominees and our two new award winners! 2009 Honoree - James Hernandez Born April 14, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, James "Chico" Hernandez has been competing in wrestling, sambo, and grappling since 1968. Chico was the first (and only) sambist ever to be featured on the box of Wheaties. Being selected to be on the Wheaties box as an "Everyday Champion" is considered by many to be akin to "America's Hall of Fame". Over 15

Million boxes with Chico's image were sold. James "Chico" Hernandez was the second and last sambist to appear in Sports Illustrated "Faces in the Crowd" in October 1997 (the first was Greg Gibson in 1981). At the time, Sport Illustrated readership numbered near 23 million per week, not including web viewers. However, at the time of Chico's listing, Sports Illustrated had teamed up with CNN, making Chico the first known Sambist covered on CNN. Hernandez was inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame and is the oldest known active competitive sambist in the USA today. He has been named to five different halls of fame and has been featured in numerous magazines including Ultimate Grappling Magazine, Black Belt Magazine, Inside Ku-Fu, Army Reserves Magazine, Combat Warrior Magazine, WIN Magazine, Amateur Wrestling News, Wrestling USA “National Honor Roll of Champions” and Discover Maine Magazine. Hernandez was recently honored with the "The Civic Hospitality Achievement Award" during the 2010 FIAS Scottish Sambo Championships by the Dumfries and Galloway Council. He was also honored by the Scottish Sombo Federation with the Scottish Sambo Federation Appreciation Award for “Fighting Spirit” and his Contributions to Scottish Sambo. During Hernandez' long competative career he has stepped on the sambo, wrestling, judo and grappling mat many times. His resume is far too extensive to list in its entirety.

Here are some of his sambo accomplishments: -1997 AAU Grand National Sambo Championships - Bakersfield, California (3rd Place Masters) -1999 AAU Sambo Nationals - Virginia (1st Place Masters, 3rd Place All-Around, 5th place Open) -2000 FIAS West World Sambo Championships - Dayton, Ohio (1st place Masters, 3rd Place Seniors) -2000 FIAS West World Cup of Sambo - Nice, France (2nd Place Seniors) -2000 XXVI AAU/USSA Sambo Nationals - Florida (1st place Seniors, Masters, Open) -2000 FIAS West Pan American Sambo Championships -Florida (1st Place Masters and Open, 2nd Place Seniors) -2001 FIAS West World Cup of Sambo - Nice, France (5th Place Seniors) -2002 FIAS West World Cup of Sambo - Nice, France -2004 FIAS British Sambo Championships - Kent, UK (2nd place Veteran's, 4th place Open) -2005 FIAS British SAMBO Championships - Kent, UK (2nd Place Veteran's, 5th Place Open) -2007 FIAS British SAMBO Championships - Kent, UK (2nd place Seniors and Veteran's) -2010 FIAS Scottish SAMBO Championships - Dumfries, Scotland (3rd place Open and Veteran's) Between 1987 and 2003, Chico has achieved AAU All American status as a wrestler 31 times. He has won Gold at the NAGA Nationals 4 times. To this day, at the age of 56, Chico still steps on the sambo, judo, and grappling mat regularly.

2010 Honoree - Ron Tripp Ron Tripp (born April 1953) Battle Creek, Michigan, is a World Sambo and Judo champion and the current general secretary of USA Judo. He is also a member of the board of directors of the United States Olympic Committee. His name is well-known in the MMA world, especially among jujutsu and submission grappling enthusiasts, as he is the only person to hold an official victory in competition over veteran Brazilian fighter Rickson Gracie. Tripp was awarded Distinguished Master of Sport (Sambo) in 1996. He was promoted to 6th dan by USA Judo in November 2006. A native of Lake Orion, Michigan, and graduate of Hillsdale College and Palmer College of Chiropractic, the 6 foot, 205 pound Tripp excelled in both the sports of Judo and Sambo. Trained by Pat Burris, 2 time Judo Olympian and Olympic Judo Coach, Tripp's fight career in judo lasted from 1982 to 1995. He is also a Doctor of Chiropractic. Tripp trained in Japan for six years, and during that time trained under Sensei Takagi at NichiDai University, home of MMA star Makoto Takimoto and 2 Time All Japan Judo Champion Jun Konno. In 2006 he founded C3Fights, a professional MMA company, and still personally trains C3Fighters at the USA Stars Training Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma as well as Joe "Daddy" Stevenson and Melvin "The Young Assassin" Guillard of the UFC. Some Career Highlights: -1970-1994: Competed in over 2,000 Judo, Sambo, and Wrestling matches. -1982-1994: Reportedly compiled a tournament record of over 900 wins. -1993: Defeated Rickson Gracie in sambo

by Uchimata (Total Victory) in 47 seconds. -1994: At 41, defeated 24 year old Andrew Bourdeau to win the World Heavyweight Championship of Sambo in Montreal, Canada. Awards and titles include: -1994 World Sambo Champion -1988, 1989, 1990 silver medalist at the World Sambo Championships -1989 World Judo Team Belgrade -Distinguished Master of Sports (Sambo) -Olympic Festival Judo Champion Open Division -8-time Olympic Festival Medal winner -Mifune Cup Team Bronze Medalist Open Division -12 time Judo and Sambo National Champion and Pan American Champion -President of USA Judo 2000-2008 Member of U.S. Olympic Committee 2000-2004 -Co-Founder and President of C3Fights

ASA Sponsors “No Holds Barred” with Eddie Goldman: The American Sambo Association is proud to be a sponsor of “No Holds Barred” with Eddie Goldman. Eddie’s show has long been a staple and dependable source for combat sports news. Goldman, considered by many to be the conscience of combat sports and godfather of MMA media, is a man who speaks his mind and is a diehard fans of all combat sports. Eddie Goldman is the host and producer of the “No Holds Barred podcast”, the publisher of the “No Holds Barred blog”, a senior contributing editor at the “ADCC News”, a senior contributing editor at “TapouT Magazine”, and a writer for “FIGHT! Magazine”. http://nhbnews.blogspot.com

Support the “Coalition to Legalize Mixed Martial Arts in New York” Rally in Lower Manhattan on February 8th, 2011! The Coalition to Legalize Mixed Martial Arts in New York is a non-partisan group of organizations, gyms, business owners, and individuals who volunteer to support the legalization and regulation of mixed martial arts in the state of New York. On Tuesday, February 8, at 12 noon a rally will be held for the support of legalized and regulated mixed martial arts in New York State*. We will gather at 250 Broadway, Manhattan, New York, 10007 (Across the street from City Hall). This rally is being organized by the Coalition to Legalize Mixed Martial Arts in New York, a non-partisan volunteer group of organizations, gyms, business owners, and individuals who support the legalization and regulation of mixed martial arts in the state of New York. In 2010, with the support of Governor Paterson and former Governor Pataki, legislation to legalize and regulate mixed martial arts was approved by the New York State Senate, but not the Assembly. We thus have chosen to rally at 250 Broadway, which houses the district office of Sheldon Silver, the Speaker of the New York State Assembly. We ask that you bring picket signs (please keep your comments and images respectful and do not use metal, wood, or plastic rods to hold your signs - only use cardboard tubes to hold you signs), and, f possible, a pair of focus mitts. Please DO NOT bring any audio projection equipment. "If you are a fan, fighter, gym owner, business owner, or organization official who wants to start the 2011 New York legislative calendar by letting our government know we want legalized and regulated MMA in New York, please come show your support! Let's gather together to show our legislators that New York is not respecting the wishes of its voters! Let's remind our legislators that MMA is a professional sport and in need of regulation! Let's

remind our legislators how much business and how many jobs are lost to neighboring states where MMA is properly sanctioned! Let's remind our legislators that we care about the safety of our athletes! Let's remind our legislators that it is the people of New York who vote for them, and that WE WANT LEGALIZED AND REGULATED MIXED MARTIAL ARTS IN NEW YORK STATE!" -Stephen Koepfer of the Coalition to Legalize Mixed Martial Arts in New York.

Please print our and distribute our press release: http://ussambo.com/stuff/coalition%20rally%20press%20release.pdf For information about how you can help us, contact Stephen Koepfer at 718-728-8054 or e-mail NYMMANOW@gmail.com Visit the coalition blog at: http://nymmanow.blogspot.com or our facebook group!

ASA Training Camp at Spartak Olympic Training Center, Alushta, Ukraine with Igor Kurinnoy The camp will be conducted by Igor Kurinnoy, three time World Sambo Champion, five time Sambo World Cup Champion, Silver Medalist in the Sumo World Championships, and an International Judo Champion. He is the Director of the Borec Sport Schools and creator of the Sambo for Professionals series. This is an intensive camp, you should be in good shape prior to the camp. There will be at least two technical sessions per day in addition to strength and conditioning sessions. There will be a program specific for coaches as well. Prior

sambo training is not required but you should have a good base in some type of grappling (judo, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, etc). One day will be devoted to sightseeing. Date: June 5-15, 2011 Where: Spartak Olympic Training Center, Alushta, Ukraine. Alushta, Ukraine is a resort city located on the Black Sea. Cost: $2875. Airfare not included, nor is cost (approximately $30) of overnight train ticket from Kiev to the camp. What is included is training, lodging, food and sightseeing. The camp is limited to 15 participants and 5 spots are already taken. American Sambo Association members will receive a 15% discount and preferential selection (total price not including airfare $2444). For more information contact: ASA Vice President, Gregg Humphreys email: samboforprofessionals@yahoo.com mobile:563.343.3508

Early Sambo’s Secret Research Tool: The 3 x 5 Card. By Scott Anderson Sambo lore tells of the exhaustive research by the Soviets to build a systematic, universal combat system from the mass of techniques found throughout all of the fighting and wrestling systems in the world. The work of Spiridonov and Oshchepkov is well documented today where even the Russians can acknowledge that their system has foundation of ju-

jitsu, judo, western self-defense systems, and native Soviet wrestling and combat systems. However, in the 1950s, many believed that the undisputed founder of Sambo-wrestling was Anatoly Kharlampiev. Today, he is considered a founder, but his role must be placed in perspective to the work by Spiridonov and Oshchepkov.

Revisionist history aside, Kharlampiev contributed greatly to Sambo-wrestling’s development, and after WW II (the Great Domestic War), he was the driving force for the “golden age of SAMBO”. He trained E.M. Chumakov, and Kharlampiev was such a presence that he inspired award for the “Deserved Trainer of the USSR” and was the first recipient of the award in Sambo-wrestling. Today, he has his detractors, but he had a solid background with solid contributions to the sport.

His father, Arkady, was an artist who went to Paris to further study the arts. There, he became interested in a sport that was still alien to Russia: English boxing. From his interest, he built a solid career as a professional boxer in Europe, and when he returned to the USSR, he taught boxing. His skills were such that the militia and the military sought his expertise, and through those activities, he met a gentleman, Vasily Sergeevich Oshchepkov, who taught Judo, an improved version, of the Ju-jitsu advocated by Victor Spiridonov.

This relationship is critical to Anatoly Kharlampiev’s development. Spiridonov’s ju-jitsu was based on the work of I.V. Lebedev who taught a Ju-jitsu based system to the St. Petersburg police as early as 1905. This system was supplemented with English boxing and French-wrestling (today, that would be

Greco-Roman wrestling). Lebedev’s course was very successful, and when his book “Arrest and Self-defense” came out, the Soviet military was inspired to develop a course called “Defense and Offense without Weapons”.

The main center for this work for the militia and the military was the NKVD health club, “Dynamo”, and Spiridonov headed that effort. Spiridonov worked to improve this effort, and his main contribution was to note that ju-jitsu was taught in ju-jitsu class, fencing was taught in fencing class, boxing was taught in boxing, and wrestling was taught in wrestling, but no one seemed to being trying to synergize those classes to work together, so he began the work to find an effective, universal system that was easy to learn. While Spiridonov basked in the limelight as the expert on Ju-jitsu, he did have outspoken critics.

Two critics who often ridiculed him (and vice versa) were V.S. Oshchepkov who said Spiridonov had no knowledge of throwing skills and Arkady Kharlampiev who said that Spiridonov had virtually no boxing skills. Spiridonov at that time was a noted boxing referee, and an NKVD icon for self-defense. Oshchepkov and the elder Kharlampiev argued that “SAM”, Spiridonov’s first revamping of Ju-jitsu was a poorly executed master of sports program in a haphazard boxing system. This rivalry went on through Oshchepkov’s students even after Oshchepkov’s death, and later, Anatoly Kharlampiev would be added to the list of those who ridiculed Spiridonov.

Anatoly Kharlampiev showed promise as a wrestler, so his father insisted that he take advantage of the opportunity to learn Judo from Oshchepkov, and the training was arranged. He progressed to a level

where he was assigned as an assistant to Nikolai Galkovsky (reputed to have designed the kurtka to Oshchepkov’s specifications) to open a new Judo school. From there, and upon Oshchepkov’s death, Kharlampiev became the face of what was called “free-style wrestling (Judo)” where he presented the “state of the art” at the first gathering of trainers in 1938.

By the time that the convention was over, the sport lost the “(Judo)” from its title to become “Soviet free-style wrestling”, and it would still be a number of years before it became Sambo-wrestling to avoid confusion with the Olympic sport of free-style wrestling. Kharlampiev was charged by the committee with a number of tasks the foremost of which was to develop the sport further and provide training materials.

In this process, Kharlampiev is credited with inventing a number of techniques, so what was his secret? He used separate cards to list every known technique and what he called their auxiliary parts (set ups, gripping, etc.) and essentially shuffled the cards to see what combinations came out, and then, tested the combinations for their usefulness. Today, with computers, this would, of course be much easier.

Lacking computers, Kharlampiev would build his combinations: set up + a grip + a throw + a finish. He then tested the effectiveness of the “ploy”, and if viable, he looked for the counter throws and their auxiliary pieces (blocks, evasions, etc.). Once those were determined, he looked at how the aggressor could progress if his basic throw was blocked to build a combination of throws that could address each of the counters as they were implemented.

This was a laborious process that was carried on by Chumakov when he came to help Kharlampiev coach in Moscow. As they built their ploys, counter ploys, and combinations of throws (and other techniques) that were really counter ploys to the defensive counter ploys, and Kharlampiev used statistics to analyze his ploys for those techniques that were used most often. From there, he could build a system based on techniques that were more universal and situation specific. He wanted defensive actions that could counter the most number of attacks to simplify the process of learning defense. Modern Sambo-wrestling analysts would support a training time with a mix of 75% offensive ploys to 25% defensive ploys providing that the correct defensive ploys are used.

Kharlampiev, and later Chumakov, would advocate the combination of throws as being the most effective use of time and energy because a failure in the first throw in the sequence set up the next throw, and the opponent in countering the first throw actually set his balance and power to assist in throwing him with the next throw in the sequence. For combat, that concept is too elaborate in the world of violent confrontation, but their focus was on sport where both wrestlers have the luxury of an artificial arena and certain conventions for their match.

Lastly, the Soviets at the 1938 convention were concerned that Soviet free-style wrestling would be accused of plagiarizing other systems, so Kharlampiev was required on his cards to also note the pedigree of every ploy to demonstrate what came from a Soviet source and what came exclusively from a foreign system. Every ploy was also noted for what circumstances that it was suited for. Thus, the Turkic wrestling styles with their

foot hooks provided a counter to the “mill” (fireman’s carry) even though the “mill” was not used in those wrestling styles.

Kharlampiev, like Oshchepkov before him, had a laboratory to test foreign and domestic skill sets in both their native environments and in a larger more universal fighting style. The difference between the pupil and the teacher was that teacher never forgot the need for combat while Kharlampiev was progressing with a focus on sport. He had been a hand-to-hand combat instructor in WW II, but his love was the wrestling style. When the Soviet Union began looking for Olympic opportunities to build it prestige, they looked to Judo, but the deserved trainer of the USSR in Sambo-wrestling was against judo being developed as sport in the USSR because he thought that it would take valuable funding and resources from SAMBO.

He carped that Sambo was being sold for Japanese yen, and thus seen as a road block to progress he lost his position as the head of the Sambo-wrestling federation. That did not stop many of his students (in his work in conjunction with Chumakov) from going on to become Judo champions.

Today, Kharlampiev is remembered through the annual Kharlampiev Memorial Tournament, and ironically, he was awarded an honorary 8th Dan in Judo for his book “The Tactics of Sambo-wrestling” which was quickly translated into Japanese when it was released.

2010 - ASA and Sambo in the Press. December 23, 2010 - Stephen Koepfer on “No Holds Barred” with Eddie Goldman http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2010-12-23T18_43_49-08_00 December 16, 2010 – Shock Doctor Custom Mouth Guard Review at NY Combat Sambo http://www.thefightnerd.com/shock-doctor-custom-mouthguard-review-at-ny-combat-sambo/ December 8, 2011 - Stephen Koepfer Shows Leg Lock From a Duck-Under http://www.submissioncontrol.com/main/2010/12/stephen-koepfer-shows-leg-lock-from-a-duck-under/ December 2, 2011 – Fight Gear Air Release Style Head Gear Review at NY Combat Sambo http://www.thefightnerd.com/fightgear-air-release-headgear-review/ November 21, 2010 - Oleg Taktarov and Local Martial Artists Pay Respects to Gene Fabrikant. http://uscombatsports.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=235:news&id=7860:oleg-taktarov-and-local-martial-artists-pay-respects-to-gene-fabrikant&Itemid=337

November 11, 2010 - 2010 North American Freestyle SAMBO Championships Results http://uscombatsports.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=236:event-results&id=7792:2010-north-american-freestyle-sambo-championships-results&Itemid=326 Novemer, 2010 Issue – Fighter’s Only. Stephen Koepfer quoted in “Style Wars” October 18, 2010 - North American Freestyle SAMBO Championships journey from Newark to Texas http://uscombatsports.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=102:news&id=7288:north-american-freestyle-sambo-championships-journey-from-newark-to-texas&Itemid=95 September 30, 2010 - Stephen Koepfer’s Takedown To Leglock http://www.submissioncontrol.com/main/2010/09/stephen-koepfers-takedown-to-leglock/ September 3, 2010 – Interview with Stephen Koepfer http://www.submissioncontrol.com/main/?s=koepfer August 29, 2010 - Renegade MMA Competition Team- hitting the road http://uscombatsports.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=235:news&id=7253:renegade-mma-competition-team-hitting-the-road&Itemid=337

August 10, 2010 - Spotlight on local prospects: Bradley Desir http://uscombatsports.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=240:interviews&id=7192:spotlight-on-local-prospects-bradley-desir&Itemid=333 July 2, 2010 - Changing world of MMA discussion featuring "Sambo" Steve Koepfer on Cage Radio http://uscombatsports.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=235:news&id=7144:changing-world-of-mma-discussion-featuring- May 13, 2010 - Listen to SAMBO experts on Cage Radio http://uscombatsports.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=235:news&id=7082:listen-to-sambo-experts-on-cage-radio&Itemid=337 May 13, 2010 - Renegade MMA Competition Team- first night http://uscombatsports.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=235:news&id=7061:renegade-mma-competition-team-first-night&Itemid=337 May 3, 2010 - Injury shake up unearths political controversy at USA SAMBO Open http://uscombatsports.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=235:news&id=7047:injury-shake-up-unearths-political-controversy-us-sambo-open&Itemid=337 March 1, 2010 - Evolution AMMA bout preview http://uscombatsports.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=2

35:news&id=6934:evolution-amma-bout-preview&Itemid=337 February 2, 2010 - USKBA festival brings Sambo back to Brooklyn http://uscombatsports.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=235:news&id=6901:uskba-festival-brings-sambo-back-to-brooklyn&Itemid=337 January 5, 2010 - SAMBO and MMA Tie The Knot: A Marriage Of Skill http://damagecontrolmma.com/sambo-and-mma-tie-the-knot-a-marrige-of-skill/comment-page-1/#comment-283