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 | | Sambo is an acronym for Samooborona Bez Orushia, which is Russian for "Self Defense without weapons". |
 | | Sambo is comprised of techniques from varieties of Russian national wrestling, Tartar wrestling (kurjaga), Tuvin kuresh, Yakut hopsagaj, Chuvash akatuj, Georgian chidaoba and other USSR national systems as well as wrestling techniques from Greco-Roman wrestling, Catch-as-Catch-Can Wrestling, jujitsu, judo, aikido and karate. |
 | | Sambo was created in the 1930's as a method of hand to hand combat for the Soviet military after the Russo-Japanese War. |
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