Crazy submission at 2011 Sambo World's final

RULES OF SPORT SAMBO

TOTAL VICTORY can be awarded:
- for a Total throw - opponent lands on back without attacker falling down
- for a painful hold (submission)
- for Superiority of one of the contestants (by a margin of 12 points or more)
Victory can also be awarded at the end of the bout by Points

4 POINTS ARE AWARDED:
- for the throw from Standing position with the attacker falling down when his opponent lands on the back
- for the throw from Standing position without the attacker falling down when the opponent lands on his side
- for 20 second hold-down (a maximum of 4 points can be scored for hold-downs in one bout)

2 POINTS ARE AWARDED:
- for the throw from Standing position with the attacker falling down when the opponent lands on his side
- for the throw from Standing position without the attacker falling down when his opponent lands on the chest, stomach, buttocks, waist or shoulder
- for the throw without falling down when the opponent, who was on his knees or hands before the throw, is turned onto the back
- for over 10 second incomplete hold-down
- for the second warning against his opponent

1 POINT IS AWARDED:
- for a throw with falling down from Standing position when the opponent lands on his chest, stomach, buttocks, waist or shoulder
- for the throw with falling down when the opponent, who was on his knees or hands before the throw, lands on his back
- for the throw without falling down when the opponent, who was on his knees or hands before the throw, lands on his side
- for the first warning against his opponent.

PROHIBITED TECHNIQUES:

In Sambo competitions it is prohibited:
- to throw the opponent on the head, throw with the painful grip (“Knot”, “Lever”) and throw the opponent while falling down on him heavily with the whole body
- to apply strangle holds, squeeze the opponent’s mouth and nose thus preventing his breathing
- to strike blows, scratch and bite
- to apply any painful holds on the spine, twist the neck, squeeze the opponent’s head with the arms or legs or press it to the mat, cross the legs on the opponent’s body
- to rest the hands (arms), legs or the head against opponent’s face
- to press any part of opponent’s body from above by the elbow or the knee
- to apply holds on opponent’s fingers and toes
- to apply Arm Bar (back-hammer - bringing the opponent’s arm behind his back) or painful holds on hands
- to twist the opponent’s foot by the heel and apply “knots” on the foot
- to apply “Lever” of the knee, overbending the leg contrary its natural bend
- to apply painful holds in Standing position
- to apply painful holds by jerks

Further explanations:

The hold-down ends when the player who was under the hold-down switches to positions “on the chest”, “on the stomach” or “on the buttocks” (but not “on the waist”) when the angle between his shoulder blades and the mat is over 900, when he pushes the attacker up off his body both of them find themselves in the “Off Mat” position or when the attacker switches to the painful hold.

For a hold-down, a maximum of 4 points can scored in one bout. ie a 20 second hold down. If a 10 second hold-down has been scored previously (2 points) this can be annulled by a further hold down of 20 seconds.

The application of a painful hold shall be stopped if the defensive player assumes the “Standing” position and lifts the attacker’s body (shoulders) off the mat.

The application of the painful hold on the leg shall be stopped as soon as the defensive fighter assumes the “Standing” position.

This is an abbreviated version of Sport Sambo rules. A full transcript of the rules is available on the FIAS (Federation International Amateur de Sambo / International Amateur Sambo Wrestling Federation) website