The Rolling Knee Bar Move in Sambo Martial Arts

Series Summary

SAMBO, sometimes called Sombo, is a martial arts program developed in the former Soviet Union in the 1930s. SAMBO is an acronym which roughly translates to “self-defense without a weapon,” and is one of four wrestling styles of amateur competitive wrestling recognized by the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles. There are four systems of SAMBO which include Sport Sambo, Self-Defense Sambo, Combat Sambo & Special Sambo. Similar to Judo, the goal of SAMBO is to stop an armed or unarmed attacker in the amount of time possible.

In this series of free video martial arts lessons, you'll learn advanced SAMBO self defense techniques. After watching our video series on beginner Sambo, watch President and Co-Founder of the American Sambo Association Stephen R. Koepfer demonstrates how to build on the moves you've already learned, including advanced transition moves that won't allow your opponent time to react. He also shows you trick moves, such as using the sitting arm bar as a ploy for a knee bar. You'll also learn the throws, grips, chokes that define advanced Sambo training. So watch these free videos and learn how to defend yourself against an attacker, armed or unarmed.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Stephen Koepfer at New York Combat Sambo in New York, City and today we are going to be doing advance sambo. Our first advance clip is going to be a rolling knee bar from the turtle position so I my find myself and this is called turtle position on my hands and knees. My opponent is on my back and when his leg is between my 2 legs I'm going to roll underneath, reaching my arm just like a forward roll, tucking between our 2 legs and rolling on the shoulder that is closer to you. So from here roll under, grab his leg, to the knee bar position that we have learned before. It is very important that you roll deep underneath your opponent or else you would mess his leg and the knee bar would not be tight. So don't roll forward, roll deep and back. "