Hits, grips, protections, and ground fighting, you will find these and many other Sambo techniques taught and demonstrated throughout this DVD. Sambo was created for the army and the police needs; the name was taken from the Russian expression Samozatchita Bez Orugia: self-defense with no weapon. At the beginning, the Russian soldiers were commissioned to create Sambo. Then they developed it to make it a full fighting system with an extraordinary logic and an exceptional fluidity between the standing work and the follow-up on the ground. Sambo is an endless style which enables everyone to be able to respond any fight. It was well-tried in free fight, notably with Oleg Taktarov, UFC 5 & 6 winner. This DVD is presented by French-Swiss Herve Gheldman, graduate of the Sambo and Combat Sambo Russian University. He attended many police and military academies and received training with Russian Special Forces. After a brilliant sport career including a World Championship, Herve Gheldman now devotes himself to the teaching of sport disciplines Sambo and Combat Sambo, and especially the teaching of Sambo to security and self-defense professionals.