Sunday 11 March 2018

Dutch Open Sambo 2018



This year was the 27th. Dutch Open SAMBO Championships held in the newly refurbished and impressive Trefkoele sports hall, in Dalfsen, Holland. With over 18 countries, from as far afield as India, Sri Lanka, Canada, America and Russia attending, this event is fast becoming a must for Samboists who wish to compete against top class foreign opposition, with minimum financial outlay. With five sharing a car and the expenses, the one night trip from Folkestone cost £85.00 each.
We left Folkestone at 5pm Friday, catching the six o’clock Eurotunnel train. Heightened security checks took a while to get through, but we boarded on time, with only one minor calamity. The electric windows in my ageing Seal Alhambra are not working, so, after having to keep getting out of the car at various check points, I decided to force the window down. Wrong move! Instead of creating enough opening for the Border Force inspectors to see into the car, the whole glass window disappeared into the door panel. On to the train, and as soon as it got moving, out came the tool box, off came the door panel and the window was retrieved and re-instated.
Landing in Calais at 7.45pm, local time, the four competitors from Spitfire, Danny Carrott, Nathan Johnson, Francesca Aspey and Izzie Namey, settled back for the 270 mile trip to Dalfsen. One advantage of travelling at this time, was that traffic was light. Four hours later, with one short comfort break, we were in the Mooirivier (nice river) hotel carpark. Although reception was closed, the night ported could not have been more helpful, showing us to our rooms and making us welcome. He must have been prepped, as he said he was more than happy to serve us a night cap in the lounge, and if we needed him, to just ring 9, from any phone.
I would certainly recommend this hotel to any-one who wants to stay in this tranquil are of Holland.16 year old Izzie was the first competitor to weigh in on Saturday, the day of the competition, at 09.45 Fighting in the under 57kg category, her hardest fight was against a Dutch girl in the semi-final. Trailing by four points to nil, she pulled a four point throw out of the bag to level the scores with seconds to go. The whistle sounded, indicating the end of the contest, and Izzie had won by the rationalisation that her four point throw was technically superior to her opponent’s two one point and one two point techniques. So, into the final against the Belgian. No problems here, an emphatic 6 -0 victory for the gold medal.
Next up came one of Spitfire’s coaches, 17 year old Francesca Aspey, who found the going difficult against heavier opponents. In her first fight, she lost on an arm lock to a local Dutch girl and although she lost 6 – 0 to the French opponent in her second fight, she did save her best efforts to last and finished the contest strongly.
Last to weigh-in were the men, Danny Carrott, over 90kg and Nathan Johnson, under 90kg, from Spitfire who were joined by the only other British representative, Billy-Joe Wilshire from Fightworx, Somerset in the under 74kg. Billy flew into Amsterdam, then caught the train to Dalfsen.  Billy fought in a pool of nine, narrowly missing out on a bronze medal. He lost his first fight to the eventual gold medallist from Canada, 11 – 0 which placed him in the reparcharge. A leg lock victory over his Sri Lankan opponent saw him progress, but he was stopped in the next round by a 9 – 1 loss to a Dutch rival. Billy travels to competitions whenever he can and his technique and confidence is really improving.
Nathan Johnson, a first kyu in judo, fought in the biggest pool of 17 players. A leg lock victory over a Dutch player in the first round meant he would meet the eventual gold medallist in round two. Nathan found him too strong and struggled to an 8 – 0 loss. Now fighting for bronze, Nathan progressed with a very good 14 – 4 victory over a Frenchman, before losing on a leg lock to the Dutchman who he beat in the first round. Overall, 5th. Place in a pool of seventeen, a very good result.
Last and by no means least, was our most experienced player, Danny. Competing in the slightly heavier weight group of over 90kg, his first fight against a younger Dutch man was his hardest. Losing 1 – 0 with ten seconds to go, he emulated Izzie’s earlier victory with a last gasp two point throw. With four seconds to go, his opponent was so devastated that he could not continue. The semi-final was much easier and an 11 – 0 victory over a German saw Danny into the final. The 9 – 0 final result against another German adversary does not tell the whole story. While technically superior standing, the German clearly wanted to go to the ground, where twice Danny was almost caught on arm locks, but either escaped or held off.
Well done to the whole British team, a great experience, a superb day of competition, some extremely good contests and a very proud coach!
Finally, we left Dalfsen at 5pm for the return journey home. One stop latter and we were in Calais by 10pm, catching an earlier than planned train at 10.20 and back in doors by 10.15, British time.
Colin Carrott
English Sombo Federation President.












Tuesday 25 October 2016

BSF Practical Proficiency Award Scheme

BSF Practical Proficiency Award Scheme

Instructors Awards
Level 1 to 3

Personal Requirements
Level 1
1) Member of a BSF affiliated association
2) Must be an experience Sport Sambo Player
3) Minimum 15 years of age
4) Have First Aid Certificate
5) Has read the BSF Child Protection Policy

Level 2
1) Member of a BSF affiliated association
2) Minimum of 2 years experience in Sport Sambo
3) Minimum 17 years of age
4) Have a First Aid Certificate
5) Has read the BSF Child Protection Policy
6) Level 1 Instructor
7) Level 1 Referee/Timekeeper recorder

Level 3
1) Member of a BSF affiliated association
2) Minimum of 3 years  experience in Sport Sambo
3) Minimum 21 years of age
4) Have a First Aid Certificate
5) Has read the BSF Child Protection Policy
6) Level 2 Instructors
7) Level 1 Referee/Timekeeper recorder
8) Club Level Competition Controller

Examination Requirements
Level 1
1) Demonstrate a correct warm up procedure
2) Demonstrate 3 techniques of the examiners choosing from the syllabus
3) Explain what Safe Exercise means
4) Teach a lesson
5) Questions on Rules of your Discipline

  Level 2
1) Demonstrate a correct warm up procedure
2) Demonstrate 6 techniques of the examiners choosing from the syllabus
3) Explain what Safe Exercise means
4) Teach a lesson
5) Questions on Rules of your Discipline
6) Prepare Lesson Plan



Level 3
1) Demonstrate a correct warm up procedure
2) Demonstrate various Throws counter, combinations plus show arm locks, leg locks and Holding techniques
3) Explain what is meant by Safe Exercise
4) Teach a lesson
5) Questions on Rules of your Discipline and Referee Match
6) Prepare Lesson Plan
All candidates must be aware of




Thursday 20 October 2016

CombatSombo Camcorder




I was one of the first to offer Camcorder Grading’s and the established Martial Arts Community condemned me. Saying grading must be done on site. WHY? Obviously you cannot do a Camcorder Grading for a competitive art but when a grading is just about showing technique why not? When you think about it a Camcorder is a better way of examining someone techniques and can improve their technique. In a standard grading where you perform all your techniques in front of an examiner it becomes no more then an endurance test with many of the techniques failing because of fatigue. 
Now some organisations/examiners say that is the reason why you need a formal grading but ask yourself if you are doing a Martial Art as a Combat Form when do you spend hours continually in Combat? If you are competing in a Competitive Combat Discipline then you either have to show your track record by ways of competitive wins and proof of wins or as we do in the IBF UK you compete on the day of the grading. Yet even our IBF UK Competitive Dan Grades have to do Kata and theory but does this have be done on one day? I think not for example for 1st Dan you are expected to do Nage No Kata this can be done by camcorder or with a senior examiner present on the final day of the Competitive grading you will be asked to do one set. The logic behind that is that you are still practicing the Kata, we in the IBF put considerable emphasis on Kata not all organisations do, that is their choice.



So why can a Camcorder Grading be superior to a normal standard grading?

1)   It is not a test of unnecessary endurance. Want to show your fitness do a fitness test

2)   The Grading itself becomes a learning module. The Candidate can look at the technique on Camcorder delete it until they have got it right so therefor improve the technique. They can also film each technique from different angles and can spot anomalies as can the Examiner

3)   The examiner can spend time looking at the recording rewinding if unsure of what they have seen. This will help them with their decision and also help the candidate when giving an assessment

4)   You keep a record of the Grading’s for ever

5)   Proof of you ability. Martial Arts does have a reputation for Practitioners criticizing other Practitioners on their ability and their status a copy of your grading can displace this



The Martial Arts are inundated by so called experts you see people as young as 30 claiming to be 10th Dan in a Multitude of Completely different Arts, Camcorder Grading would prove they are Charlatans’. A Grade is only as good as the organisation that awards it. So if someone who claims is a 10th Dan in the King Kong Martial Arts Society that maybe telling the truth  But what you need to ask is what is the King Kong Society and what are their standards? My Camcorder Grading’s have the advantage that through the Classical Martial Arts Society all my examiners can show their credentials most have 30 years to 60 years experience and the CombatSombo has even bigger advantage in that the System was devised by me and is a Registered Trade mark in my name, so any person stating they are doing CombatSombo must be registered to me and my organisation



So if your are interested in Camcorder Grading in CombatSombo or Classical Martial Contact Martin Clarke 8th Dan IBFBCSA@gmail.com





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