Sambo and Catch Wrestling
Instructor: Ron Dayley
Tuesday and Thursday 6:00pm-7pm
Sambo-SSF Submission Academy is a member of the Grapplers Guild.
Sambo (Russian: самбо; САМооборона Без Оружия), (a.k.a. Sombo in USA), is a Russian martial art and combat sport.[1][2] The word “SAMBO” is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as “self-defense without weapons”. Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand combat abilities.[1] Intended to be a merger of the most effective techniques of other martial arts, Sambo has roots in Japanese judo plus traditional folk styles of wrestling such as: Armenian Kokh, Georgian Chidaoba, Romanian Trîntǎ, Tatar Köräş, Uzbek Kurash, Mongolian Khapsagay and Azerbaijani Gulesh.
Catch as Catch Can-Catch wrestling is a style of folk wrestling that was developed and popularised in the late 19th century by the wrestlers of traveling carnivals who incorporated submission holds or “hooks”, into their wrestling to increase their effectiveness against their opponents. Catch wrestling derives from a number different styles, the English style of Lancashire Catch as Catch Can Wrestling, Irish Collar-and Elbow, Greco Roman Wrestling, styles of the Indian subcontinent such as Pehlwani and Iranian styles such as Varzesh-e Pahlavani. The training of some modern submission wrestlers, professional wrestlers and Mixed martial arts fighters is founded in Catch wrestling.
