Bialystok, Poland · Knyszyn Forest

Train sambo where it is still taught the hard way.

Combat sambo and jacket wrestling for BJJ players, wrestlers and MMA fighters. A week on the mat with BESTIOS, a Polish club running since 2011, and evenings in the forest.

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Association since 2011 Sambo, BJJ, MMA, boxing Sessions in English

Why sambo

The grip changes everything you know

If you roll in a gi, you already have half of sambo in your hands. The other half is what the jacket does when the fight stays on the feet, and what the rules let you do to a leg.

Jacket wrestling

Sambo throws are built for a jacket without a belt and a shorter kurtka. Grips, angles and entries differ from judo and from gi BJJ, and they transfer straight back to your own game.

Legs, early

Leg entanglements are not an advanced module here, they are the starting vocabulary. You will drill them against resistance from the first session.

Standing pressure

Sambo scoring rewards finishing the takedown on your feet. That habit fixes more MMA and no-gi problems than another hour of guard retention.

The camp

One week, one mat, one forest

Training runs twice a day in Bialystok, in the club's own room. Between sessions we move out to the Knyszyn Forest: recovery, sauna, walking, and nothing that resembles a hotel conference package.

Two sessions a day, technique in the morning, live rounds in the afternoon
Combat sambo, sport sambo and jacket wrestling, taught in English
Open to BJJ, judo, wrestling and MMA athletes from blue belt level or two years on the mat
Small group, so every round is coached, not counted
Airport pickup from Warsaw or Bialystok arranged on request

Dates and pricing for the next edition are set once the group is confirmed. The waitlist gets them first, and gets the early rate.

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Controller of your data: Stowarzyszenie BESTIOS, ul. J. K. Branickiego 7/317, 15-085 Bialystok, Poland, bestios@bestios.pl. Your address is used only to send camp information and training material, on the basis of your consent (art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may withdraw consent at any time, which does not affect processing done before the withdrawal. You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability, and the right to lodge a complaint with the Polish supervisory authority (UODO).

Sambo technique drilled on the mat at BESTIOS

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Sambo for BJJ players: seven techniques

An eleven page PDF condensed from Walka Sambo, the Polish sambo manual, and written for someone who already knows how to grip a gi. Seven entries, grip by grip. No email course, no drip sequence, one file.

Four takedowns, three on jacket grips, one that needs no jacket at all
Two leg attacks legal in sambo and in IBJJF competition
The grip break that opens all of them
A three week drilling plan you can run in your own gym
Written by the author of the Polish sambo manual, not assembled from video clips

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Living in Bialystok

Then train with us all year

If you are in Podlasie, you do not need a camp. The club trains every week: sambo, BJJ, MMA, boxing and Systema, for adults and for kids.

Training room: ul. Wesola 14, Bialystok
Office: ul. J. K. Branickiego 7/317, 15-085 Bialystok
Phone: +48 602 388 911
Polish site: bestios.pl