Monday, November 23, 2015
World Sport & Combat Sambo Championship 2015
The World Sport and Combat Sambo 2015
Casablanca Morocco
This Championships get better
and harder year on year but it was pleasing to see many different countries
winning matches and winning medals
This year the British Sombo Federation took 4 players:
Emma Herd Sport Sambo
u68k, Johnny Heron Sport Sambo u100k, Matthew Clempner Combat Sambo u100k,
Chris Hoban Combat Sambo u82k
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| French TV interviewing Martin Clarke |
4 Officials:
Martin Clarke President
BSF, Robin Hyslop President SSF, Matthew Clempner Coach, Valerie Clarke
Hon President BSF
2 Physiotherapists:
Kamila Kinga Gens, Jemine Thacker
3 Spectators:
Stuart Hoban
Connor Hoban
Gerald Tom Heron.
As per usual the stadium for the World Championships has 3
International Size Mats and in most cases has a very large TV screen, over the
past few years FIAS (International Sambo Federation) has had its own TV Company
which films it live over the Internet. The tournament itself was organised
extremely well, there was a few problems
over the language barrier although this did not affect the British Team . The
Opening ceremony was quite spectacular and loud.
When GB hosted the World Championships in 1992 there was
just 12 nations remembering that was in the era of the USSR, which encompassed
many Countries. Now FIAS has 82 registered countries with another 20
provisional members.
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| Matt Clempner in Red |
On Day 1 we had just one fighter Matt Clempner he was one of
our main hopes for a medal. In 2012 Matt had won a Bronze in the 100k plus
Sport Sambo event but since then has lost weight and has been competing in
various Strike and Grapple events with some success recently winning a medal at
the Presidents Cup. Matt started the match at a steady pace putting some strong
strikes and when they locked in we all thought Matt will throw his opponent but
the technique did not work and they both stumbled to the ground with Matt being caught with a leg
lock. Sadly the repercharge system only allows players to contest for Bronze if
they lose to the finalist and Matt opponent went out in the next round.
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| A win for Chris |
Day 2 we had two fighters up Johnny Heron u100k Sport Sambo
and Chris Holbon u82k Combat Sambo
Johnny Heron a very experienced Judoka who has competed for
GB and trained in Japan but he had the misfortune to have the Georgian Loriashvili
first round who was eventually to win Gold. As soon as they took hold you could
see Johnny was in the wrong weight Category he eventually went out 8 pts. to
Nil. His fight for the Bronze did not fare a lot better but on this occasion he
pulled back right near the end to gain a point although he lost this was a
better performance.
Chris Hoban came out like a storm in his first fight against
the Czech fighter beating him 5 puts to 1pt a cracking win and our first win in
a World championship for many years his next fight was against Kazakhstan which
he lost but even this fight he showed no fear and was trading head buts punches
as good as anyone. The Kazak fighter
went to reach the finals so Chris went to fight the Moroccan for Bronze, which
he beat confidently even though the noise from the audiences was phenomenal.
The Moroccan Team were no easy fights they had been winning matches in Sport
and Combat Sambo throughout the Tournament. That was as far as Chris would go
he lost out in the Bronze playoff to the Ukrainian. Chris was one of the Best
GB fighters I have seen for a long time as he comes from Manchester not a
surprise once he improves on his throwing Techniques I am sure he will medal
next year
Day 3 Emma Imrie Herd Sport Sambo u68k
Emma a very experience Judo player form a famous Scottish
Judo Family fought in her second International Sambo event. Once again she seem
well out of her weight group as all the other players were bigger then her. She
lost her only match to a Serbian Player who dominated the match. Emma put up a spirited
fight and went the distance to lose on points
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| New Concept Coaches Box |
On watching the GB team over several years I believe our
chances of World medals will come in the Combat Sambo and the reason I say that
is the Combat Sambo players compete in many Strike and Grapple competitions and
they train like professionals with Matthew Clempner Senior in charge of Combat Sambo
he has a lot of International plans for them. The Sport Sambo players are not
so lucky as the only other Jacket Wrestling they can do is Judo and with the
IJF now telling all top level Judoka they can not compete in other Grappling
Sports this is now being misunderstood by the majority of Judoka who think they
also can not take part in other grappling sports. I believe the dictatorial
attitude of the IJF will see an even further decline in Judo Jacket
Wrestling like BJJ does not help Sport Sambo players because theirs is mainly a
ground fighting sport while the emphasis in Sambo is throwing So the answer is
for more sport Sambo events in GB no matter how small and for Sport Sambo to
travel to Open Internationals. John Clarke Sport Sambo National Coach will be
taking players to the Paris Tournament in May, there is the Dutch Open in March
and a Belgium Open in February. From now on the BSF will only select people for
World and Europeans if we consider they have a chance of winning a match, no
longer can these two competitions be just to give players experience this
can be done in minor Internationals.
More at
http://www.sambo-fias.org/news/7734
More at
http://www.sambo-fias.org/news/7734
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