Once, Bay Area Combat Sambo
Reno Combat Sambo is the evolution of decades of martial arts. My initial standup style was Mantis Kung Fu . (1986-1995) I consider that period of focus really one system of training. By early 1995, I was deep in cross training and integrating techniques from a number of styles and systems. I was in Rochester NY, and training regularly with experts in other styles.
Until 2005 I considered myself an Anything Goes Martial Artist. That was until I found Sambo in 2006. Since then I have exclusively been involved in Sport and Combat Sambo.
After training with the CaliSambo team for years, our team evolved until I opened FitFight/Bay Area Combat Sambo.
After moving to Tahoe in 2017, then Reno in 2018, I began teaching again post Covid, in Reno in 2022.
We currently train in NW Reno twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30-7pm.
40 years of Martial Arts Training and Experience, Rob has spent the last 19 years exclusively training Sambo. (10 Years of Mantis Kung Fu, and several years cross training in various combat arts. (Aikido, JKD, Boxing, and BJJ)
Rob has traveled to Moscow (2013- Sambo70 and Boretz) and Alushta Ukraine (2009, 2011- SPARTAK Olympic Training Center, Crimea) to train with Igor Kurinnoy, who is a Merited Master of Sports in Sambo and is director of the sports school “Boretz” in Moscow.
Rob holds a “Gold/Challenge Sash” under Grand Master Kwon Chun in Mantis Kung Fu which he received in 1992.
Bronze Medal September 2014, NAGA NorCal, San Jose CA 180-190lb Masters (40+) NoGi
Gold Medal, September 2014, Mr. Olympia Sambo Tournament, Las Vegas NV 82Kg Masters
Silver Medal, March 2014, Arnold Classic Sambo Tournament, Columbus OH 90Kg Masters
Bronze Medal 2010 Navarro “Double Threat” Martial Arts Championship, Pacifica CA Jujitsu [Gi] Open Div.
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