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The Sambo Tree
81 techniques · BEGINNER → STUDENT 1 → STUDENT 2 → STUDENT 3 → STUDENT 4 → STUDENT 5 → STUDENT 6 → CANDIDATE FOR MASTER → MASTER → GRAND MASTER
The systems over this tree
Moscow institutional
Sambo-70 and the academies: the systematized breadth Rudman codified.
Dagestani combat sambo
Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov's school: wrestling-first combat sambo that conquered MMA.
Classical sport lineage
The FIAS mainstream: jacket throws and leg locks under the total-score clock.
Post-Soviet diaspora
Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan — and the combat-sambo bridge into early MMA.
4x combat sambo world champion, PRIDE heavyweight king
Fedor Emelianenko
Combat sambo's proof: casting punches into throws into armbars, calm as a metronome.
2x combat sambo world champion
Khabib Nurmagomedov
Abdulmanap's school: wrestling-first combat sambo, the base the UFC never solved.
BEGINNERFALLS, HOLDS & GRIPS
THROWS (jacket)
GROUND CONTROL
LEG LOCKS
CONCEPTS
STUDENT 1FIRST THROWS & LOCKS
THROWS (jacket)
STUDENT 2LEG GRABS & THE ANKLE
THROWS (jacket)
LEG-GRAB ATTACKS
GROUND CONTROL
LEG LOCKS
STUDENT 3LOCKS & HOOKS
THROWS (jacket)
LEG-GRAB ATTACKS
LEG LOCKS
CONCEPTS
STUDENT 4PASSAGES & COMBAT
THROWS (jacket)
LEG-GRAB ATTACKS
ARM LOCKS
LEG LOCKS
STUDENT 5COMBINATIONS & COUNTERS
THROWS (jacket)
LEG-GRAB ATTACKS
GROUND CONTROL
STUDENT 6UNDER STRIKES
THROWS (jacket)
CANDIDATE FOR MASTERCHAINS
LEG-GRAB ATTACKS
GROUND CONTROL
ARM LOCKS
COMBAT SAMBO
MASTERMASTERY
THROWS (jacket)
LEG-GRAB ATTACKS
GROUND CONTROL
ARM LOCKS
LEG LOCKS
COMBAT SAMBO
GRAND MASTERTHE RULES
CONCEPTS
Canon: Kharlampiev, Borba Sambo (1940) — standing, lying, and the passages between · FIAS sport rules · Rudman's ground-technique books