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Andrey Kotov about the Russian Pointfighting
April 27th, 2010 by AndreyKotov received 1 Comment »
In this article I would like to say a few words about semi-contact in Russia in general and to introduce the blog users with the present situation in this division in our country. Now pointfighting is extensively developing in Russian Federation and is quite popular among kickboxers.
Speaking of combative divisions in kickboxing that are being cultivated in Russia many people would justly notice that Russians are traditionally strong in the ring and usually associate Russian kickboxing with the names of our ring-champions. This may be determined by the fact that in our country there has always been the famous old-school boxing system and many of our stars in a kickboxing ring are students of the coaches of that Soviet system. Russians were almost obscure in other divisions. But taking into consideration semi-contact, it is interesting to observe that on the basis of a combative karate style this very division gave birth to the developing of kickboxing in the USSR in far 1990. But almost at once the priorities in divisions were shifted to ring events when boxing specialists came to kickboxing.
The second birth of semi-contact happened not long time ago. As recently there appeared a man named I. Yurov who didn’t come to be indifferent to destiny of Russian kickboxing and to the thing that notwithstanding very good results in the ring and in light-contact, semi-contact being the most interesting and grassroots division was at a very low level in Russia. And his idea was to catch up and to support this lagging division as it is really safe, the least harmful, free-for-all in the context of age, sex, physical grade and a rather spectacular one. Today we are at a primary stage of implementation of this idea but semi-contact has already begun to be developed on the territory of Russia: new clubs have appeared; new sections and departments have been opened in region federations as a new division has risen. It was found out that Russians are familiar with this challenge, drive, explosion that is peculiar to pointfighting all over the world. I am looking forward that soon our sportsmen will be recognized at the international arena.
