The kurtka has four large buttonhole-type openings to insert the belt which therefore keeps the kurta in place. The kurtka also has protruding epaulets on either side of the shoulders to allow for strong grips. Tight shorts of matching color and sambo shoes with suede soles are also part of the uniform. During a competition the two opponents wear kurkti of different color. Sometimes reversible red and blue kurtki are worn.
Opponents shake hands before and after a match instead of bowing.
We are posting the sport rules in four languages on our rules page . Combat Sambo has the same origins as sport sambo but includes chokes, holds, moves, throws, and kicks and strikes which are illegal in sport sambo. Sport sambo is different from combat sambo. The Sambo classes were started at the University of British Columbia on September 1997 on the initiative of the coach, Master of Sport in Sambo Vadim Slavin , merely one year after his arrival in Canada. The sambo club is the youngest of some 25 different martial arts classes offered at the Student Recreation Centre of the University of British Columbia.