Combat Sambo

Sambo (Russian: самбо; САМооборона Без Оружия), a.k.a Sombo in USA. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo was created in 1930, combining over 200 types of regional martial arts in the Central Asian region of the former Soviet Union it is heavily influenced by Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Armenian, Georgian and Russian martial arts as well as French wrestling and a combat system known as "Tested" that was used by the Soviet army in World War 2. Its advanced moves target the joints of an opponent. The damage toward the joints is aimed to definitively obliterate the opponent’s ability to fight.

The self-defence methods of Sambo in the general public are governed by strict Russian laws, which offer a five-year prison sentence to anybody found to have used excessive violence during a self-defence situation. As a result, Sambo for the general public aims only to defend the life of a practitioner with the minimum force required. Sambo used by the Russian army and police however are allowed to follow a different philosophy. For their situations a practitioner must not allow an attacker to cause them injury and as such Combat Sambo, a military variant of Sambo, was developed by the former Soviet Union to focus completely on the offensive. Sambo leaves no room for mercy. It’s a cold, mechanical martial art created for the purpose of surviving modern warfare and the constant struggle between life and death.

Sambo Practitioners

 * Bayman
 * Leon

Trivia

 * Sambo was later used by Dragunov, a character that appeared in Tekken Dark Resurrection.