Hand-to-hand combat according to the Kadochnikov exhibition system. What is Combat Sambo

Reading articles about the ancient world and the conditions of increased danger in which the first people lived, you involuntarily draw an analogy with what we have now.

Unfortunately, we cannot boast of a safe existence. In the modern world, there are much more threats to human life than in that distant Stone Age.

The narrow dark streets of a modern city, like a wild jungle, become a place of potential danger and threats. In connection with this state of affairs, a person thinks that it would be nice to be able to defend himself and turns to hand-to-hand combat professionals with a request to teach him self-defense techniques.

What kind of system is this

Russian or Soviet hand-to-hand combat is otherwise called the Kadochnikov system. These are unique martial arts that combine the struggle of two rivals and the psychology of survival in the current difficult and, at times, even extreme situation.

It is worth noting that the founder of this system was V.A. Spiridonov, and Kadochnikov systematized the accumulated knowledge on self-defense and made very important additions.

The goal of the system is to create a fighter who is ready for any situation and is able to find a way out, no matter how difficult the conditions are. The basis of the system is ordinary physics and mathematics, knowledge of which will lead to a quick victory and a significant advantage over the enemy.

Peculiarities

Kadochnikov’s self-defense system is not just hand-to-hand combat, it is a body of knowledge that allows a person to survive in extreme conditions. This fighting technique not only makes a person an excellent fighter, but also develops psychological
balance, a person looks at life differently, makes the right decisions, and knows how to analyze situations.

A person begins to see his superiority over others, but he will never allow himself to talk about it openly. According to Kadochnikov, a fighter is restrained and reasonable, cunning and dexterous. He is able to control his opponent.

It becomes possible to achieve such an understanding of life and attitude towards oneself thanks to Kadochnikov’s special training scheme in self-defense, which is absent in other martial arts:

1. Kadochnikov’s self-defense allows you not to waste energy, but to save it in every movement. But the system is built in such a way that the correct use of the enemy’s strength to achieve one’s goals allows a person to win.
2. The lessons are not monotonous and there is no need to memorize certain techniques. Everything works according to the principle: “Repeat the blow, but in a different key.”
3. The absence of a competitive spirit is also important, since this type of fighting cannot be called a sport, it is rather a school of life.

primary goal

The system is simple, natural and reliable. It is based on natural movements and is accessible to everyone, regardless of physical fitness. Kadochnikov's self-defense combines many different techniques and fighting techniques.

The main idea is to take control of the situation, control the enemy and use his power against him.

Kadochnikov’s self-defense is a relatively new type of martial art that contains the wisdom of our ancestors and, at the same time, adaptation and the latest scientific developments.

Of course, the system will continue to develop and become even more advanced. Naturally, the development of domestic hand-to-hand combat requires the support of not only interested citizens and masters of this art, but also the state and law enforcement agencies.

If you have decided to learn self-defense techniques, if you want to learn self-control and improve, then we advise you to turn to the self-defense system created by Kadochnikov.
Watch a video about the basics of the Kadochnikov system:

The variety of different directions and styles of this national martial art has a unifying feature - almost all of the most famous domestic hand-to-hand fighters use the experience of more ancient martial arts.

Combat Sambo

The very first type of Russian hand-to-hand combat (not to be confused with the sports wrestling of the same name), which became relatively widespread throughout the country after the systematization and generalization of methods of using strikes from English boxing, as well as grabs and throws from various types of wrestling.

Sambo began to be developed as a system of hand-to-hand combat in the 1920s in the USSR; it originated in the Moscow sports society “Dynamo” under the leadership of former tsarist army officer V. A. Spiridonov. The symbiosis of jiu-jitsu techniques, Western types of wrestling and boxing, together with defense techniques in everyday life, formed the basis of combat sambo, intended to arm police officers, NKVD employees, border guards and prison guards. Spiridonov called this system SAMBO - self-defense without weapons. Subsequently, sambo was divided into combat and sports. In sports, techniques that could cause injury to the opponent were excluded.

However, in combat sambo with a strong wrestling component, painful techniques are used, with the help of which fatal blows are not inflicted on the enemy: the emphasis is on suppressing resistance. Therefore, combat sambo is distinguished by the “stickiness” and “nimbleness” of the representatives of this hand-to-hand combat - they masterfully cling to any accessible part of the opponent’s body, masterfully avoid blows and at the same time fetter the opponent’s initiative with lightning speed.

Kadochnikov system

This type of domestic hand-to-hand combat comes from Krasnodar, it was founded by the famous popularizer of self-defense systems A. A. Kadochnikov. A feature of the author's style, patented by Kadochnikov, is the emphasis on comprehensive training of hand-to-hand combat - he must know the basics of physics, psychology and human anatomy. There are no “techniques” as such in Alexey Alekseevich’s method; the fighter “controls” the enemy based on the knowledge of the above-mentioned sciences. Although experts say that this style is based on techniques used in martial arts (jiu-jitsu, aikido, judo and others).

According to Kadochnikov, in a hand-to-hand fighter, the spiritual principle should be the cornerstone of ideology. Moral endurance and maintaining composure in extreme conditions according to the Kadochnikov system are one of the main qualities of a true hand-to-hand combat ace.

Mikhail Ryabko's system

The system, which originated in Belarus, is now being promoted in Russia by its founder, a former employee of the USSR Ministry of Security, Mikhail Ryabko. It is a martial art that has absorbed all the best from the most famous martial arts. The fundamentals of the Ryabko system are knowledge of the mechanics of the human body, the ability to control one’s breathing and psychophysical state, and to harden the body.

Hand-to-hand combat according to the Ryabko system is more like bloody fights without rules - during the fight you can hit in the groin, tear out ribs and collarbones, tear off fingers, hit the most vulnerable parts of the head... The main task is to kill the enemy before he does it himself.

"Siberian Loach"

The school of Russian hand-to-hand combat from Novosibirsk D.V. Skogorev, just like Kadochnikov’s system, does not promote certain fighting techniques in response to specific actions of the enemy - the fight takes place taking into account fundamental basic actions based on the laws of the nature of the human body and the psychophysical state of the opponents. Basic basic movements vary depending on the situation at hand. Here, too, the principle of “controlling” the enemy, “winding it around” (hence the “Siberian Loach”), and not working “force on force” is put at the forefront.

ROSS system

The abbreviation stands for Russian Domestic Self-Defense System. It was patented in 1995 and has since been practiced by Nizhny Novgorod resident A. I. Retyunskikh. ROSS is not just the art of hand-to-hand combat, but a spiritual and moral training system. It includes features of sambo, judo (Retyunsky master of sports of the USSR in these sports) and other martial arts. ROSS is suitable for candidates of all ages and with any health condition.

Motor skills, methods and abilities are developed on the basis of experience provided by Russian folk games, dances, various types of wrestling and hand-to-hand combat; the system teaches how to fight, saving strength and energy. The ROSS principle is to reveal the mechanics of motor skills inherent in each person and, with the help of internal innate reflexes, to respond to a certain combat situation.

In ROSS there are also no template techniques; in each specific situation everything is variable. As in most techniques of modern Russian hand-to-hand combat, in the Retyunsky system, fundamental importance is given to knowledge of the psychophysical characteristics of a person.

Alexey Alekseevich Kadochnikov (July 20, 1935, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR - April 13, 2019, Krasnodar, Krasnodar Territory, Russia) - author of self-defense and hand-to-hand combat training.

Since 1939 he lived permanently in Krasnodar. From 1955 to 1958 he served in active military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR. After serving in the period from 1959 to April 1983, he worked in various organizations and research institutes in the city of Krasnodar. In 1965 he graduated from the Krasnodar Polytechnic Institute in absentia. He worked as the head of the laboratory at the Department of Mechanics of the Krasnodar Higher Military Command and Engineering School of Missile Forces (head of the department - V. A. Chernolyasov) since April 1983. While working at the school, he developed his own way of survival. Since May 1994, he worked as a leading psychologist at military unit 62986.

Son - Arkady (born 1971), retired lieutenant colonel.

He died in Krasnodar at the age of 84.

Books (12)

A unique in its completeness presentation of the scientific foundations of the “Human Survival System” as a multifunctional, multidisciplinary system.

The hand-to-hand combat section is presented with detailed illustrations and technical examples demonstrating the fundamentals and principles of the system.

Reader comments

Ruslan/ 04/18/2019 A.A. Kadochnikov died on April 13, 2019 after a long illness at the age of 84.

VladTMB/ 04/2/2019 Kadochnikov’s system (method) works!
The methodology is available but requires the “personal aspiration” of the student. Necessarily. Personal search, seminar reconciliation with the standard, error - correction, error - correction, etc. to the personal style of the practitioner. I left with a mistake, didn’t make an amendment and skidded to the side. The standard is the base, the foundation. You can build what you need on it :)))
Copying is not a method. The arsenal is large - a lifetime is not enough to copy.
The technique has been completed - the principle must be “seen”.
I grasped the principles, applied them in another technique - the method will begin to manifest itself.
I understood the method and came closer to my own style.

But, always, always “from the abstract to the concrete” - this is important.

Vova/ 01/08/2018 I don’t know why, but for some reason the author was interested. Thank you

alesha/ 06/14/2017 This is brilliant. Thanks to Kadochnikov.

Valery/ 09/17/2016 Leshy, if you are still here (on the site), please respond in a personal message to [email protected]
I also have a prosthesis and would really like to learn more about your experience in mastering the SC.
If you read these lines, I ask you again: respond to my e-mail to establish contact.

Eugene/ 07/21/2016 I know one thing: I studied boxing, it didn’t work, I studied Kharlampiev’s founder of boxing in Russia, everything is simple there and he began to win fights on the street. Kadochnikov’s biomechanics are described in the Sambo of the founder Kharlampiev in simplicity. This is a very working system that has proven itself in the USSR and Emelianenko is proof It’s not clear what the dispute is about.

guest/ 02/26/2016 The problem with all these systems is that they are only good for the gym. They are all sports, so there are a lot of illegal strikes. In a fight, opponents must be knocked out as quickly as possible and so that they cannot get up. They won’t teach this in gyms - a reflex is developed “” impossible kick in the balls" and so on

Guest/ 02/17/2016 I agree with one of the earlier commentators. Indeed, Kadochnikov replaced the schizoteric terms “hara”, “qi”, “ki” and other crap with physical terms. Scientific, that is. For which Kadochnikov has honor and praise. But in a practical aspect, neither the system of Ueshiba (aikido), nor Kadochnikov, nor other creators of “soft” styles stand up to any criticism. More precisely, not a single check in combat. Aikido practitioners have repeatedly suffered defeats, often shameful ones. Like in this video: https://youtu.be/GJseId1GRyE. This is probably the reason for the categorical refusal of representatives of the Investigative Committee to go out and fight with representatives of other combat directions.

Friend/ 02/12/2016 Thank you)

Guest/ 01/19/2016 what explains kadochnikov is not new; it is explained in martial arts and this mechanics is taught in both aikido and judo. he explained this in the dry language of physics and lost the soul of this mechanics. According to his system, you can only learn to understand and quickly memorize techniques by applying them from other martial arts. It seems to me that the author did not pursue other goals

Kostyan1/ 01/10/2016 The system works only at the level of real incentives, and not empty chatter...

Sergey/ 10/20/2015 I completely forgot. Kadochnikov's system, in his own words, originates from the tradition of Oznobishin - Spiridonov. But the UK is infinitely far from their methods. I'd say it's a misrepresentation of their styles. Bringing them to complete idiocy. But in the early 90s, several films were released called “Combat Sambo. Anyone Can Win.” The techniques are shown by a certain Bayborodov and Nikulin (but not Yuri). The techniques they offer are much closer to what Spiridonov, partially Oznobishin and other forgotten masters of the 20-30s used. There is also a lot of useless Kadochnikism in the films, not without it. However, there are enough practical ones that can be adopted. Perhaps this is the only useful material marked Russian style that I have ever seen.

Sergey/ 10.20.2015 Evgeniy. If only in the ring and in the cage. These miracle fighters are not even on the street. For anyone who has ever had a fight will be convinced from their own bitter experience of the absolute stupidity of the IC. I am one of them, I have experience. Even against drunkards all this bullshit didn’t work, so what can we say about a fight with a prepared opponent! The only thing that the “sectarians” really succeeded in was correspondence boxing. Here they really have few equals. You can see for yourself by reading almost even the local opuses of SKashnikov. Especially the posts of fake special forces, GRU officers and KGB officers with FSB officers are encouraging. They should write science fiction novels))) So the ring of a typical Kadochnik student is the Internet, and the weapon is the mouse and keyboard.

Eugene/ 09.30.2015 Guys! What is there to argue about, these miracle fighters are not in the ring or in the cage! They live in their own world, play giveaway games with themselves, created their own mythology and believed in it themselves! What are the laws of physics and other nonsense? Do you have a strong opponent in front of you, who can hit quickly and accurately and can throw over himself? While you are catching his limbs and making braids, he will simply break his jaw or slam to the floor... such is the prose of life! How they rate speed or perception or ability to move, etc... it’s not clear! Just show and giveaway! It's time to use your brains and not look into the mouths of businessmen from supposedly combat systems!

Vladimir/ 09/30/2015 I am not professionally familiar with any eastern system, nor with domestic ones. I always dreamed of mastering sambo, but it didn’t work out. At school I was involved in show jumping, ski jumping, football, swimming. From the 5th grade I decided to become a submarine officer... .and became the commander of the RPK SR in 1987. I understand that hand-to-hand combat for a submariner is simply an absolute whim. But no one bothers to lead sections during training. I hope that in the education department of the Ministry of Defense they will come up with such an “original” solution . I recently became acquainted with SK. I read, looked at everything I could and just felt that this is what my children and grandchildren need. So that they know from an early age that good must ALWAYS defeat evil, so that they can ALWAYS come to the aid of the weak, stand up for yourself and punish those who bring evil. I watched comparative battles in Crimea. Alexander writes everything correctly about 12 fights. I want my children and grandchildren to carry with them throughout their lives the belief that GOOD will ALWAYS defeat evil.

I can’t say that our communication was long and thorough: I was surprised to discover that Alexey Alekseevich Kadochnikov, despite his outward openness, is an extremely difficult person. He never says too much, he is quite collected, but smiling. At the same time, all attempts to talk to him turned into a one-sided monologue: I expressed my opinion and views on the topic of hand-to-hand combat, and he simply nodded his head and said that I was right about everything... This alarmed me terribly, and I decided to check the consistency of our communication: Approaching him, I said such obvious stupidity that I had a hard time holding back my laughter. At the same time, nothing even skipped a beat inside Kadochnikov himself: he enthusiastically began to say how great I was, and that everything was exactly as I had suggested in my stupid statement! After which I decided to go further and say that: “this is all very complicated, and no one here (this was at a seminar to which I came as a guest) understands this truth,” to which he answered me quite sincerely: “The main thing is what do you understand! And the rest, if they need it, will sort it out.” In a sense, I was shocked by the naturalness and acting that Alexey Alekseevich possessed... Despite the fact that the man standing in front of him was carrying a completely unimaginable blizzard, he did not give himself away in any way: when communicating with him, you will never understand him what he really thinks about you. Whatever you tell him, he will confirm with an absolutely sincere look, which will not make you doubt for a second that you are right! This struck me about him!

In fairness, it must be said that not everything is so bad: if Alexey Alekseevich Kadochnikov sees in you a sincere interest in his direction of hand-to-hand combat, he will share with you some aspects of his knowledge. But for this you need to be completely open to the perception of new information and treat what he says with special attention.

Another aspect that struck me about Kadochnikov Sr. was his strength of spirit. Those who know him know that his legs are broken, and it gives him terrible pain not just to walk, but even to stand. Despite this, he spends the entire seminar (8 hours) on his feet, walking, explaining and showing people the elements of hand-to-hand combat, without sitting down for a second. After the event is over, he is almost carried by the arms, since he practically cannot move on his own. Because of fatigue and pain in his legs, he moves extremely slowly and limps: only then do you remember that he is already over eighty years old.

At the end of the seminar, answering questions from participants, he periodically told stories about how his system was born. He recalled how people “died”, how scary it was at times..., but he never told any of the stories to the end - tears began to choke him.

I can safely say that as a person, Alexey Alekseevich Kadochnikov made an extremely strong impression on me.

From the personality of Alexey Alekseevich Kadochnikov and from my impressions of him, it’s time to move directly to the hand-to-hand combat system he proposes. Coming to visit the seminar, I could not help but try for myself what it is - the Kadochnikov system. To my surprise, Alexey Alekseevich did not refuse me: he demonstrated his work, so much so that I was in slight shock. Everything you see in the videos does not even come close to reflecting the real state of affairs. He hits! And he does it incredibly hard and quickly. He performed several techniques on me, and so decisively that my legs even left the ground.

This was real hand-to-hand combat, and not the slow, imposing ballet that we are used to seeing performed by its adherents: as soon as I lost my balance, a flurry of terrible blows immediately fell on me, from which I was dumbfounded for a while! In contrast to what we were all used to seeing from his videos and what was demonstrated at the seminar, this caused cognitive dissonance in me. In other words, Alexey Alekseevich Kadochnikov himself is a terrible person and a real fighter, whom I would not recommend anyone to meet in real hand-to-hand combat.

In view of all of the above, the reader naturally has a question: “If Kadochnikov himself is such a master, then why can’t any of his students demonstrate anything even remotely reminiscent of real hand-to-hand combat, and if they demonstrate, they turn out to be helpless against elementary attacks?”

During my short acquaintance with Kadochnikov’s hand-to-hand combat system, I noticed some features that horrified me.

The first thing that catches your eye is the zero level of preparedness of absolutely all participants in the seminar: no one can repeat even the elementary movements that they are offered to master. The most common question in this case is how to throw a punch correctly. In this situation, quite rightly, Alexey Alekseevich Kadochnikov advises mastering boxing techniques, calling it the basis for any type of martial arts.

During the seminar itself, the Kadochnikovs are helped by their instructors: guys who are absolutely zero in regards to hand-to-hand combat, but who, at the same time, are also ambitious! They, as it were, adapt themselves to the greatness of the master and indirectly bask in the rays of his glory, imagining themselves to be fighters and behaving defiantly, while being unable to do absolutely anything. Being an extremely calm and balanced person, I even wanted to teach some of them a lesson several times, but my friend, who brought me to the event, urgently asked me not to do this.

I am not surprised that representatives of the Kadochnikov system are so disliked on the Internet: with absolutely zero proficiency in hand-to-hand combat, they position themselves as fighters of the highest class, unequivocally hinting that in a “real fight” they will break anyone. Naturally, this myth collapses as soon as it is possible to catch such a “master” and fight with him, even with the slightest contact.

Alexey Alekseevich himself, at the same time, is a rather modest person. Where these gentlemen get their crown from is not entirely clear.

I think the understanding that they have no chance in a real fight oppresses particularly ardent adherents of Kadochnikov’s system, so they try to compensate for this deficiency with verbiage and myth-making, belittling others and praising themselves. Naturally, this state of affairs does not suit everyone...

And the reasons that they can’t do anything are banal. In order to master any system of hand-to-hand combat, you need to practice regularly, with a good master, giving yourself, shedding sweat and blood in training and in battles. There is no other way! Most of the adherents of Kadochnikov’s system learn from video recordings and wander around seminars, trying to enthusiastically master what is shown to them there. Almost none of them trained with Kadochnikov himself, like athletes train with their mentors. Moreover, they do not even train on their own, as is common among most martial arts practitioners. Basically, these are careless students of random seminar participants who go to the master once a year (or even less), without having any basis in any contact martial arts. After the workshop, they tend to watch YouTube and imitate what they saw. There is no question of any verification of the correctness of their technique and acquired information in contact battles: they immediately begin to teach people, at the same time not hesitating to pour slop and belittle all other areas of hand-to-hand combat, talking about how dangerous they are.

Another aspect is the lack of speed work and work with a resisting opponent. Here everything is much simpler: the fact is that at the seminars Alexey Alekseevich Kadochnikov shows the technique slowly, since no one understands anything due to the complete lack of any preparation among the participants. Everything is slowed down and exaggerated, to the limit, in order to somehow show the person who comes the features of the proposed hand-to-hand combat system.

Kadochnikov always asks seminar participants to take their time when performing the proposed technical elements, because, as with playing the piano, there is a very high probability of learning them incorrectly, or not mastering them at all. However, for a reason unknown to me, this principle was elevated to the Absolute: “we don’t have high-speed work, because at speed we will simply kill the enemy”... This is a blatant and cynical lie, and it is simply impossible to come up with anything more incompetent.

But not everything is so rosy on the part of the event organizers. Kadochnikov himself also takes part in forming a false image in the minds of students. For some reason unknown to me, he does not show real speed work in his seminars, he does not explain the intricacies of fighting, does not show striking techniques, series and combinations, and keeps people completely in the dark about how his system works in practice. This aspect causes me indignation and indignation: it remains unclear what exactly a person should learn and how to perform it in real hand-to-hand combat.

In the sections of the Kadochnikov system, striking techniques are not practiced, wrestling is not studied, fights are not practiced... I will say even more: there is no work with a resisting opponent. But the final chord in this symphony of absurdity is the complete absence of even elementary speed work. That is, everything happens extremely slowly. A logical question: how to learn to fight in this case? And the answer is no.

Many people who have practiced the Kadochnikov system and other types of Russian hand-to-hand combat are absolutely unsure of their abilities and are afraid of a fight like fire. This is understandable: they do not have a single reliable tool that they could use in real combat. There is just a lot of speculation on how and what should be from the point of view of science.

I must say, I really like the scientific component of Kadochnikov’s system. Alexey Alekseevich very competently and accurately approached the description of the process of hand-to-hand combat, and I would recommend to anyone who is in one way or another passionate about martial arts to master this particular part of his work.

But the strong scientific foundation underlying the system does not help people master Kadochnikov’s hand-to-hand combat: most of those who came to the seminar are not professional athletes, do not have a technical education and do not understand anything about biomechanics and physics in principle. At the same time, they are endlessly loaded with terms that they are not able to comprehend, shown techniques that they are not able to reproduce, accompanied by explanations that they are not able to understand. The overall usefulness of such an event, in my opinion, tends to zero.

Here is the paradox: Alexey Alekseevich Kadochnikov himself is, of course, a worthy person, professional, a fighter and a real warrior. However, what he teaches will never work for anyone who adopts it, since it is presented in isolation from real practice and outside the context of combat use. This is certainly a shame, since there is already an opinion that Kadochnikov’s system is quackery and profanity. In principle, this is not true in relation to the hand-to-hand combat system itself, but if we are talking about a commercial project called the “Kadochnikov system,” then this formulation is absolutely appropriate.

I would like to immediately make a reservation that the author has nothing against making money: commercial interest must be present in any business. Any work must be paid. Training in martial arts is a very painstaking, energy-intensive and expensive task, but it is worth it if, as a result, a person is offered real algorithms for solving hand-to-hand combat problems.

The reason for writing this article was the difference in impressions regarding what I experienced myself and what is presented under the guise of hand-to-hand combat at seminars on the Kadochnikov system. Briefly, the difference can be described as follows: people come to a practical lesson in hand-to-hand combat, but end up at a theoretical lecture. Alexey Alekseevich says everything correctly theoretically, but in complete isolation from the practice of real application in battle.

The Kadochnikov system is one of the treasures of our people. Alexey Alekseevich himself is a brilliant person, a real master. However, the form in which his hand-to-hand combat system exists today makes it completely unviable. I would really like the true, practical knowledge and achievements of this person to see the light of day. To do this, it seems to me, requires work from two sides:

1. The Kadochnikovs themselves need to realize that it is necessary to reconsider the way they present information to students.
2. Trainees should make a list of those techniques that they would like to see at the seminar, and announce the requirements for the learning process and performers, clearly controlling the process and demanding direct, understandable answers to questions that interest them.

I would really like the organizers to reevaluate their approach to teaching Kadochnikov’s hand-to-hand combat style and generate a new wave of interest in this area. But if this doesn’t happen, then that’s the way for him...

If you want to from scratch quickly master the combat algorithms of effective self-defense, then the Kadochnikov System is the best choice for you. However, before you begin to practice the combat skills of effective self-defense, which is based on methods of “smart and cunning” influence on the enemy, and not on brute physical force, you need to understand a few things well. First of all, understand that real effective self-defense is fundamentally different from combat sports and martial arts.

You know that the Kadochnikov System is fundamentally different from all existing martial arts and martial arts, it is simple and easy to learn. In this article we will show you seven main fundamental differences between the Kadochnikov System and any types of combat sports.

Knowing these seven main differences, you can easily determine which training program is right for you and you will know what result you will get after training.

FIRST and a very important difference concerns mental preparation. The Kadochnikov system prepares your psyche to work effectively in extreme situations when life and health are in danger.

Any combat sport prepares a person to participate in competitions where life and health are not in danger. Judges, doctors, the athlete’s coach are responsible for this; spectators and fans are present in the hall where the competition is held.

Naturally, the level of neuropsychic stress in such conditions is not at all the same when, for example, you need to fight for your life and health on a poorly lit deserted street, and even against several, not just one, attackers, each of whom may be armed with a stick, knife or brass knuckles.

The most obvious indicator of these differences is the pulse. In a trained athlete, under competition conditions, the pulse rarely goes beyond 140-145 beats per minute.

In an extreme situation, any person who has not undergone special training, the pulse instantly jumps to 180, or even 200 beats per minute. And an athlete who acts confidently in a competitive environment is also helpless and subject to fear in conditions where life and health are in real danger.

When there are no judges or a coach nearby and he needs to fight not for victory with an opponent of approximately the same weight and level of training, but for his life or health with those who will most likely surpass him in weight and number, not according to the rules that he knows well, and according to the law of the jungle, where the best techniques are considered the most insidious and cruel.

How does our brain and body react when a person finds himself face to face with real danger?

Our brain, faced with a threat to life, sharply reduces the scale and volume of information that we need to process. This is why most of us get overly excited when we find ourselves in a stressful situation.

Having crossed a certain line, our body blocks too many channels of information, and we become helpless. When the pulse crosses the border of 145 beats per minute, the real problems of controlling your body begin.

Complex motor abilities are impaired. It must be said that the range in which we can work effectively ranges from 115-145 beats per minute. Moreover, its upper limit is 140-145 beats per minute, which is optimal for very trained people. For ordinary people, the optimal operating range is 120-130 beats per minute.

But we remember that in a stressful extreme situation our heart rate instantly jumps to 180 beats per minute and even higher. What happens to our body at these rates?

At 175 beats per minute, information processing stops completely... The front part of the brain is blocked, and the midbrain - that part of it that is identical to the animal brain (and all mammals have it) - is activated and takes over the functions of the forebrain. Visual perception is reduced to a minimum. In this condition, people have frequent bowel movements because, at such an extreme level of danger, our body considers this kind of physiological control not essential for survival purposes.

In this state, he is focused on something else: blood flows from the external muscles and flows to the internal ones. Our body is evolutionarily predisposed to this at the genetic level, in order to turn muscles into a kind of armor and reduce bleeding in case of injury. But this makes us practically motionless and helpless.

In the USA, for example, people are advised to practice dialing 911, because there are many cases where people in extreme situations grabbed the phone, but could not perform this simplest action - dial 3 digits.

I believe you already understand what situations you need to prepare yourself for. To think that the skills acquired in a sports club can be easily transferred to a real extreme situation is at least stupid, and by and large criminal, and first of all in relation to oneself.

The scope of this article does not include a description of real life stories in which people, even with phenomenal athletic training, found themselves absolutely helpless in a real situation when their life or health was in danger.

There are hundreds of such stories, and if you want, you can find them yourself. This is the story of the famous wrestler Ivan Poddubny, who became a victim of a street robbery, and the story of one of the founders of modern karate, Masutatsu Oyama, who was beaten by black bandits in the USA (he himself described it in his autobiography) and a lot of other similar cases. Perhaps you or someone you know even has their own story on this topic.

SECOND The important difference is the rules.

No matter how strict the rules of the competition may be, they exist even in such types of sports as are called “fights without rules.” Even there you cannot gouge out eyes, break joints or hit in the groin. But these are the actions that every person tries to carry out first when he finds himself in a real hand-to-hand fight.

In sports you need entertainment and showmanship, in real combat you need efficiency. This means the goals are different. And since the goals are different, the training is completely different. After all, on the street or the battlefield, the outcome of the fight will not be determined by a judge in a smart bow tie and white shirt, but life itself will judge who is better prepared and trained.

And here we are faced with THIRD An important difference is the content and teaching methods.

We remember that in ANY combat sport there are rules. Consequently, it is these rules that determine what and how an athlete should be taught. In boxing - strikes, defenses against strikes, maneuvers, battle tactics. In wrestling - throws and falls while standing, wrestling on the ground, tactics, etc.

Plus, you need a good level of functional and special physical training, without which it is impossible to perform many complex coordination actions or survive five rounds in the ring, for example.

Therefore, every sport MUST have a multi-year training program, in which all training and TRAINING are divided into main stages. They begin training with the initial training group, then those who cope are transferred to educational and training groups; then the most capable are transferred to groups for sports improvement, and only after that the most gifted move to groups of higher sports excellence.

It is impossible to master the technique and tactics of any combat sport in three or even six months. You need to count on years of study. Moreover, training is built on the principle of a pyramid. The basis is the maximum number of techniques and their combinations that an athlete must learn. Above is the optimal set of technical and tactical combinations suitable for each specific athlete. That is, we learn as much as possible at the initial stages, but use only 20% of this at the stage of higher sportsmanship.

In the Kadochnikov System, even if we wanted to go this way, we still would not be able to do it. In sports, thanks to restrictions in the form of rules, we can create a model of all possible technical actions and, based on this model, train an athlete.

In real life this is impossible, since there may be one enemy, there may be several of them, they may be armed, etc. - this is why we cannot allow ourselves to form stereotypes in the form of techniques and their combinations. We have only one way out - to teach our body to move in such a way as to instantly react and work in any situation with one or more opponents, against any type of bladed weapon. And to do this not over years of study and training, but in the shortest possible time.

FOURTH The difference is the volume and intensity of physical activity.

In sports, the task is to bring the athlete to peak physical shape for the main competition of the year. Therefore, the entire training cycle throughout the year is divided into certain stages - macro- and microcycles, combining periods of heavy loads, recovery after them and subsequent periods of loads.

To achieve this goal, both pedagogical and pharmacological means and methods are used. All this is done to achieve the main goal - victory at the main tournament of the year. But you must always be prepared for an extreme situation, at any time of the day or night.

Such emergency situations cannot be written down in the competition calendar or asked to the gopnik: “Wait 5-7 minutes, I need to warm up my muscles and do a warm-up.” Therefore, training in the Kadochnikov System is organized so that any person: man or woman, weak or sick, in excellent physical shape or with shortness of breath after climbing to the fifth floor, can work in an extreme situation if he has to fight for the life and health of himself or his family and loved ones. And this is achieved by the fact that we use only 25% of our strength in our work. Here we come to FIFTH the difference between the Kadochnikov System and combat sports.

Use not 100%, but 25% of your strength to work effectively in any condition for as long as necessary. How this difference works is very clearly shown in the diagram below:

SIXTH the difference is more related to thinking processes than to motor activity.

Despite the fact that in combat sports tactics are very important, and their application is even broader than just the tactics of a sports match (they also consider the tactics of competitive training in general), and in fencing, for example, there is even such a thing as the strategic doctrine of a fencer it is limited.

You probably already guessed what it is limited to? Right. It is limited by the competition rules. In our System we cannot afford even the slightest restrictions in either tactics or strategy. Because all preparation is subordinated to one goal - to survive and complete the task. For you, for example, the task may be to repel a bully, while minimizing the injury factor as much as possible, avoiding injury and damage.

To do this, we use all the resources at our disposal at the moment, the principle of the trinity of forces (physical, spiritual, intellectual), and interdisciplinary communication. We do not have stereotypes (any restrictions) and should not have them.

And finally, one cannot help but say about SEVENTH An important difference is working in different environments.

Preparing a person to work in the same environment, under the same conditions, will not allow him to work in a situation where the conditions will be less comfortable. A body falling on a soft carpet is not at all the same as falling on asphalt or on a staircase in an ordinary entrance. If you know how to work with stairs, having prepared your body to smooth out its hard edges, you will somehow be able to cope with a soft floor, but the opposite is unlikely.

We examined seven main differences between the Kadochnikov System and combat sports within the framework of this article. Of course there are more differences.