Chapter 1813 Spazaganova Fight Club
It took Terekin a long time to finally understand what this "Spartaganova" was all about. As the saying goes, "When one person prospers, everyone else prospers," and "Spartaganova" is a prime example.
There's a reason Russians are known as a fighting nation. At least two of the most powerful fighters in kickboxing are from Russia: Fedor Emelianenko, the "Six Billion Strongest Man," and Khabib Nurmagomedov, the "Eagle."
The former is self-explanatory; his nickname alone speaks volumes about his prowess at his peak: a master who mastered both ground and stand-up combat techniques with impeccable skill. From the time he entered the kickboxing world at age 24 until he turned 34, his record was 33 wins, 1 loss, and 1 draw. The loss came after a medical supervisor refused to allow him to fight due to bleeding from the corner of his eye during his first year in kickboxing. Those ten years became known as the "Fedor Decade."
While Khabib Nurmagomedov may not have reached Fedor's level, he's also a master of combining wrestling and striking. His immense core strength, near-unstoppable wrestling technique, and perpetual motion-like stamina help him compensate for his shortcomings in stand-up. With a career record of 29 wins and 0 losses, he remains undefeated in his weight class. He has defeated countless martial arts powerhouses, including Conor McGregor, Poirier, Barbosa, and Michael Jordan.
What do these two martial arts masters have in common? They both originally practiced Sambo. Sambo is the most popular combat sport in Russia, and Kashin is a master of it. At the Clover base, Xiao Peng watched the soldiers practice Sambo daily.
The name Sambo means "self-defense without weapons" and is now called "sport sambo" and "combat sambo".
The former, as the name suggests, is used in competitions, while the latter is used in actual combat. Members of both the KGB and the GRU (Russian military's special forces) learn combative sambo for self-defense. It's a powerful martial art, and even the Russian Emperor was a master of sambo.
(PS: To be more precise, there are three types. Combat Sambo is divided into defensive and offensive styles. The latter is also known as Extreme Sambo, which is a pure killing technique. It was required by the KGB and classified as top secret. It was not until the collapse of the Soviet Union that Extreme Sambo was spread.)
Speaking of which, Sangbo has some relationship with Daxia.
This story goes a bit far back, dating back to the Ming Dynasty.
During the Ming Dynasty, there was a Hangzhou native named Chen Yuanyun. Xiao Peng prefers to call him a "polymath." Why? Historical records describe him as "intelligent from childhood, well-versed in classics and history, and multi-talented." However, at the age of eighteen, he took the county entrance examination but failed. Whether out of fear or something else, he never took the exam again, meaning he never achieved any academic success.
What did he do after that? He traveled extensively. At the age of 27, he stumbled upon the Shaolin Temple, where he spent over a year tending pottery and medicinal herbs. He not only learned pottery-making techniques but also delved into medicine through the use of herbs, and even learned Shaolin martial arts. After leaving Shaolin Temple, he wandered around for a few more years, arriving in Nagasaki, Japan at the age of 33. There, he scraped by, practicing calligraphy and making pottery until he was in his fifties.
When he met the lord of the Owari domain in Japan in his fifties, his life took off! He entered Japanese high society, engaged in poetry, prose, tea, and philosophy, and even improved Japanese pottery firing techniques, a technique still known in Japan today as "Yuanyun ware." He then became a renowned official, spreading his medical skills and calligraphy, and at the age of 59, he married and had children. After his death, he was even allowed to be buried at Tokuxing Kenchu-ji Temple in Nagoya. What is that? It's where the Owari domain venerated their ancestors. Who were their ancestors? The Tokugawa clan! This shows just how high Chen Yuanyun's status and position were in Japan at the time!
However, he made a significant contribution to Japan: in his forties, down and out, he took refuge in Kokusho-ji Temple in Edo. At the time, temples in Japan were generally free inns, temporary hostels for the homeless. There, he shared a home with three Japanese ronin, teaching them Shaolin martial arts and the grappling techniques of the police officers. These three ronin were named Aruma Jiro, Fukuno Masao, and Miura Yoshitatsu. After learning some techniques from him and continuing to research them, they eventually developed the famous "Qi Dao Liu" (Qiu Dao Liu) jujutsu, becoming known as the three founders of ancient Japanese jujutsu. The large number of Japanese immigrants to Brazil at that time brought jujutsu with them, eventually developing into the modern-day Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Later, a Japanese warrior named Jigoro Kano emerged. He was a master of jujutsu and eventually refined it into judo. However, he refused to acknowledge jujutsu as his ancestor, insisting that he had created a new fighting technique. In this respect, the Japanese were similar to the Koreans.
Of course, there are also people who are particular about their taste in Japan.
The recognized foremost judo master in Japan is not Kano Jigoro, but his grandson, Mifune Hisazo. After Kano Jigoro's death in 1938, he became Japan's most influential judo master. At the age of 72, he was promoted to the rank of 10th dan, becoming only the fourth judo master in Japan to do so. His unique technique is called "sumoraku." While modern judokas are aware of the principle behind this throw, it requires constant control of the opponent's strength and swift execution, so no one in the history of judo has ever used it in actual combat or competition.
In Japan, Hisazo Mifune's nickname is "God of Judo"!
And Mifune Hisazo said in his book "Tao and Shu": "Judo regards Yuanyun as its founder." Look, Judo does not recognize the relationship between itself and Jujutsu, but says that Chen Yuanyun is their ancestor. The Japanese people's thinking process is really good.
In the past, Japan had a war with Tsarist Russia and beat Tsarist Russia badly. Tsarist Russia found that the Japanese were very strong in close combat skills, so it investigated what was going on. It turned out that the Japanese soldiers had practiced judo, and Tsarist Russia also wanted to learn it, so it found a Russian named Vasily Oshepkov. This guy grew up in Japan and was a judo master. Russia invited him back to cooperate with the military, and improved judo based on the tall and strong physique of Russians and developed a new fighting technique, namely Sambo.
However, Vasily Oshepkov had a tragic ending. In 1937, the Soviet Union was determined to regard Sambo as an original local martial art, and Vasily Oshepkov refused to deny the master-disciple relationship between Sambo and Judo, so he was liquidated and silenced.
Look, the three most powerful fighting techniques in free fighting are all related to Chen Yuanyun.
And what is this 'Spartaganova'?
It is where Khabib Nurmagomedov first started learning kickboxing.
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