Sombo wrestling is a style of Jacket wrestling, from Russia , similar in style to Freestyle and Olympic wrestling and several other martial arts, including Judo and Brazilian Jui Jitsu. The sport involves both throwing and ground work and a version of the sport was developed by the Russian army as their version of self defense, which is where the name Sombo comes from.

The Norfolk Sombo Association is a registered member club of Sombo UK and is affiliated to the "All Styles Martial Arts Group" of local martial arts clubs.

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Gorleston Sombo Club Training Grading Success

On Sunday the 11 th June , the Norfolk Sombo Association, held an Open training seminar, which was taken by the Sombo UK National Team Coach, Tim Thomas , at the Church Lane Community Centre, Gorleston. The attending students were trained in some basic Sombo techniques during the morning session and in the afternoon session were shown some more advanced techniques. During the sessions some of the senior students were also being assessed by Mr. Thomas.

In this style of wrestling , part of the training syllabus, takes in to account some competition work. With two of our students retaining their British Open Champion status from last March and the recent Norfolk Open Championships just taken place these competition results were also considered and the following grades were awarded to the following students :-

Junior Red Belt / White Stripe - Martine Clark & Spencer Evans Webster

Junior Blue Belt / White Stripe - Daniela Balls, Samantha Clayton & Daniel Storer

The students will be presented with their new belts and certificates at next months English Open Championships in St Albans .

The Norfolk Sombo clubs head coach Graham Mann , who was also awarded his Sombo UK Senior Club Coach belt, would like to congratulate all who took part in this training seminar, which was a real success , with several new students to Sombo enjoying a serious days hard training, with the UK senior Coach. And that I look forward to seeing our Students using their new skills in the next national competition in July. I know that several of our students were unable to attend this particular days training, due to other events, but It is something I hope to repeat again, with Tim , again teaching, in the near future.

Graham would like to thank National Coach's Tim Thomas for his time in travelling up from his home in Essex and teaching at this event and the club presented Tim with a NSA Team T Shirt.