Systema Rukopashnii Boi is a Combat system used in various forms by special forces of the former USSR. Each special unit had developed its own version, incorporating, more or less, traditional Slavic, Cossack or Asian arts into the Samoz system of Vladimir Spiridonov, depending on the different areas of influence of these.

One of the first to have popularized this discipline in France is our comrade Khosrow Helly, after having contacted in 1997, Vladimir Vassiliev then Mikhail Ryabko, two former instructors at the Spetsnaz, back to civilian life.

One of the first to have popularized this discipline in France is our comrade Khosrow Helly, after having contacted in 1997, Vladimir Vassiliev then Mikhail Ryabko, two former instructors at the Spetsnaz, back to civilian life.

According to Oleg Boulanov, who learned Sambo Rukopasnii Boi in Russia, the term « Rukopasnii Boi » is composed of three words:

  • Ruka (рука) which means that it is an art of combat preferably with bare hands,
  • Pakhat (пахать) which means plowing the earth or working very hard,
  • Boi (бой) which means fighting.

So if we imagine that we have to plow the land with bare hands, the movements must be fast and strong.

This brings us back to the famous formula of General Alexander Vassilievich Suvorov, the greatest military genius in Russian history and one of the few generals to have never been defeated: « What is hard at training will be easy during the battle ».

Finally, the acquisition of greater mobility and fluidity focuses on three complementary principles:

  • the work of motricity on the ground and standing;
  • the work of body building, including resistance to pressure and strikes, first by breathing to evacuate the pain, then by relaxation and anticipation when the body remembers the past pains that it no longer wants to undergo;
  • the work of arms: stick, whip, saber where the handling of the weapon imposes its own logic on the body, to enable it to become more precise and safer.

Oleg Boulanov, Master of Sport, Technical Director, Graduate of Russia Jean-Marc Liger, National Master, Federal Formative, FFL&DA Instructor

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