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Beach Sambo is the outdoor sand-court variant of Sport Sambo developed and governed by FIAS. Designed to extend Sambo's competitive footprint into beach-sport and multi-sport festival programming (e.g., ANOC World Beach Games), Beach Sambo adapts the Sport Sambo ruleset for sand-surface competiti...

Combat Sambo is the strikes-permitted variant of Sambo, governed internationally by FIAS. Originally developed by the Soviet armed forces, Combat Sambo combines Sport Sambo's throws + groundwork foundation with closed-fist punches, head kicks, elbow + knee strikes, and chokes — making it effectiv...

Sambo is a Russian/Soviet-developed martial art and combat sport ("Sambo" = "SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhiya" — "self-defense without weapons"), combining judo-style throws with groundwork and joint-locks. FIAS (International Sambo Federation) is the IOC-recognized international governing body since 2...