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RMAX Sambo Comes to Australia!
Systema Australia is excited to announce an awesome seminar and future training opportunity with RMAX Sambo and Scott Sonnon!
To launch this amazing training opportunity Scott Sonnon will be conducting a 1 day (6 hour) Sambo seminar on Sunday November 25th.
for full details on Scott Sonnon and the type or material being covered visit: www.MMAsaddle.com
“Coach Sonnon is truly an original. As a pioneer in both the application of the newest sports science and as a connection and filter to the best techniques of the past, he has made an immeasurable contribution to our program of instruction here at the US Army Combatives School. By combining an intimate knowledge of biomechanically efficient movement, the physiological capabilities and weaknesses of the human body, and both fighting and fitness, he has revolutionized the modern combatives world.”
- “Scott Sonnon is by far the best coach I’ve ever trained with.” - Steve Maxwell, World Masters Black Belt Jiujitsu Champion
- “Coach Sonnon’s ideas are groundbreaking and immediately applicable!” - Igor Yakimov, World Sambo Champion, World Masters Judo Champion
- “Training with Scott Sonnon is awesome!” – Alberto Crane, World Black Belt Jiujitsu Champion and UFC Fighter
- “After training with Coach Sonnon, I’m a convert!” – Elvis Sinosic, Black Belt Jiujitsu Champion and UFC Winner
- “It was an honor to train with you, Coach Sonnon.” – Jeff Higgs, Black Belt Brazilian Jiujitsu (who awarded Ultimate Fighter Dean Lister his black belt.)
- “Training with Coach Sonnon completely changed my game for the better!” – Jason Keaton, Black Belt Brazilian Jiujitsu and Reality Super Fight Champion
- “Coach Sonnon has had a tremendous impact on my training. I can’t say enough great things!” – Bruce Carleton, Pan-American Brazilian Jiujitsu Champion
- “Coach Sonnon’s training made me feel like I was unstoppable!” – Wayne Fisher, Superbrawl Champion
- “Coach Sonnon helped me train to victory!” – Hunter Clagett, Ax Fighting Champion
RMAX Sambo seminar review:
well the seminar went really well - we had a good group of people turn up to train and we covered a lot of material in such a small period of time. By greatest regret was the lack of time to really get into more detail. Still, in conjunction with www.flowacademy.com.au we will be bringing Scott out to Australia more often for more seminars.
We covered a whole bunch of work:
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Ground flow drills (which were very similar to work covered by Alex Kostic and Kevin Secours - but with a few new drills to add to the flow)
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Using the wave principle to apply to boxing work for MMA - demonstrates how systema wave principles can be used in other martial arts - very cool stuff. Fairly intuitive and certainly work I have played around with myself, but still nice to practice.
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Flowing from a striking routine to a clinch for a take down - also we discussed clinching/take down distancing.
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Breathing as a technique to warm up AND to recover - the "resett button" breathing technique.
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the Rmax Sambo Saddle position and it's "opportunities" - this was the meat of why we were there and it was a lot of fun.
Fortunately, we had a mix of people including some experienced grapplers. Seeing the effectiveness of the Sambo techniques has convinced me to pursue this style of Sambo - in conjunction with jujitsu in order to have a fully developed ground game - and a few extra tricks up my sleave that are relatively unknown in Australia.
On a personal note I am undertaking the Rmax Sambo course and I will also be pursuing (over the next couple of years) accreditation in all the other areas of Scott's work - in ADDITION to persisting with Systema under Vladimir Vassiliev. I personally feel the two "flavours" work well and have so much in common that they are complementary. I hope everyone who trains with me keeps an open mind and that here in Australia good Systema continues to grow!
What is RMAX Sambo
Russian Sambo is one of the top fighting disciplines to be represented in the realm of mixed martial arts competitions because of its real-world simplicity and toughness exemplified by fearsome fighters such as Fedor Emelianenko and Andrei Arlovski.
Sambo is a highly effective and popular grappling art that was created in Russia around the 1930's as a mix of Judo, Jujitsu and traditional Russian martial arts. Today it has various "flavours" like Sports Sambo and Combat Sambo. Scott Sonnon has taken his mastery of Sambo and many other martial arts and developed a training program that applies Sambo successfully to MMA competition:
"Although you can choose to learn Sambo as a stand-along fighting system effectively, the real uniqueness of our program is how you can integrate it into diverse skill set needs mixed martial arts competition. It’s the perfect complement to Jiujitsu, which specializes in upper-half positional fighting. Adding Coach Sonnon’s Sambo as your lower-half positional fighting strategy doubles your effectiveness on the ground, without sacrificing positional dominance typical of traditional leg lock attacks." (extract from http://www.mmasaddle.com/?page_id=18)
For FULL details on RMAX Sambo and Scott Sonnon visit: www.mmasaddle.com
Who Is Scott Sonnon?
For full details go here: http://www.mmasaddle.com/?page_id=2
Key Points:
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Scott Sonnon is one of the world’s most well-known and successful coaches in the mixed martial arts discipline of Russian Sambo
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After many years as USA National Sambo Team Coach, International Category Referee and International and Grand National Champion, he earned the USSR’s most coveted athletic distinction, the Distinguished Master of Sport.
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With extensive combat and sport Sambo as his background, he was given the opportunity to become the first Westerner to study in Russia with the "Spetsnaz" special forces in the martial art of R.O.S.S. (also known as "Combat Sambo Spetsnaz") and spent many years learning from Distinguished Master of Sports in Sambo and Judo, Russian General Alexander Retuinskih, founder of R.O.S.S.
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He has served as subject matter expert for professional fighters such as Alberto Crane, Elvis Sinosic, Andrei Arlovski, Jorge Rivera and Egan Inoue
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Scott Sonnon is an International Champion in Russian Sambo submission fighting and Chinese Sanshou kickboxing.
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In 1999, he was inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame for his innovative fitness leadership programs for martial artists around the world
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In 2006, he was nominated as "Pioneer of American Sambo" by the American Sambo Association, and was inducted into the World Head of Family Sokeship Council's International Martial Arts Hall of Fame as "Grandmaster Instructor of the Year."
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In 2007, he served as consultant to the History Channel's "Human Weapon" television series - episode on Russian Sambo.
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Scott has assembled a group of top martial arts experts that all work and train together to test and develop the best possible MMA and Combat systems.
Additional info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Sonnon
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