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School of sports and combat sambo
Sambo (“Self-Defense without Protection”), like some other types of wrestling, was developed in the USSR. November 16, 1938 is the official birthday of this sport. It all started with the release of the Order of the All-Union Committee on Physical Culture and Sports “On the development of the fight of the free style.” But much earlier, Spiridonov (specialization — methods of self-defense from boxing and national types of wrestling) and Oshchepkov (specialization — judo) developed independently from each other combat systems, which were combined into a single system, on the basis of which training in schools of the NKVD was built. Continue reading
Synchronized swimming
In synchronized swimming, Russian athletes are always at their best. Even at the Olympics in Athens (2004), when in the finals of the group tournament the music of our athletes Ermakova and Davydova were turned off twice, they still took first place.
Water ballet (the original name of synchronized swimming) is quite a young sport, it appeared only in the 20s of the last century in Canada and very quickly gained popularity in other countries. For a long time (since 1948) synchronized swimming was only an indicative sport, and only in 1984 it was included in the main program – solo performances and a duet. Continue reading
Rock climbing. Climbing walls and climbing schools
Man wanted to conquer nature at all times – rafting along the turbulent river flows, studying the depths of the sea, exploring the dark depths of the cave. But climbing has always stood out especially on this list. After all, it is during the climb to the summit that a person tests his strength every minute, very often one has to be left alone with himself, with his equipment and the smooth vertical surface of a mountain stone.
Climbing is a sport that was once separated from mountaineering, so it’s pretty difficult to trace its history. We only know that active development began in the territory of our country. Continue reading
