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Retuinskih System ROSS is a martial system trademarked by Russian Cossacks General Alexander Retuinskih

Alexander Retuinskih

Russian Cossack General Alexander Ivanovich Retuinskih is the President of the International and All-Russian Federation of Russian Martial Art, who served as Special Representative to Russian President Vladimir Putin during his election campaign....

related to Systema

Systema

Systema is a Russian martial art. Training includes: hand to hand combat, grappling, knife fighting and fire arms training as well. Training involves drills and sparring without set kata. It focuses mainly on controlling the six body levers through pressure point application, striking and weapon...

. ROSS is its official name given by the All-Russian Federation of Russian Martial Arts (RFRMA). It is conceived more as a methodology of performance enhacement for combat, applicable to any martial art, rather than a closed system.

General Retuinskih's experience includes being a USSR Boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

and Combat Sambo champion, and a Sambo

Sambo (martial art)

Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...

and Judo

Judo

is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...

Master of Sports champion, as well as being the partner to Alexey Kadochnikov in Kadochnikov's Systema

Kadochnikov's Systema

Kadochnikov's Systema is a Russian martial art developed by Aleksey Alekseyevich Kadochnikov.In development since 1962, this is a system said to be based on the application of the physical sciences, such as laws of mechanics/biomechanics/physics/psychology, etc. to hand to hand combat and survival...

until their separation in 1991.

In 1991, Alexander Retuinskih patented Rossijskaya Otechestvennaya Systema Samozashchity or in acronym, R.O.S.S., "Russian Native System of Self-defense." ... The ROSS educational system was patented as "Know-How" (registered with the State enterprise "Informpatent" Committee of the Russian Federation by patent and trademark of April 4, 1991).

Russian Martial Art R.O.S.S. gained its first appearance and proliferation due to the efforts of USA National Sambo

Sambo (martial art)

Team Coach and Champion Scott Sonnon

Scott Sonnon

Scott Sonnon is a martial art expert, fitness coach, and wellness speaker. He has worked with movie stars such as Peta Wilson and Donna Karan as well as Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts fighters such as Alberto Crane, Jorge Rivera, Andrei Arlovski, and Elvis Sinosic.Scott Sonnon...

, most notably in the 1999 Special "Russian Martial Arts" Edition issue of World of Martial Arts Magazine http://www.rmaxinternational.com/pressroom/magazine_articles/PDF/World_of_MA.pdf, "Secrets of Russian Martial Arts" Black Belt Magazine (February 2001)http://www.rmaxinternational.com/pressroom/magazine_articles/PDF/BBM_09_2001.pdf, "Secrets of Russian Martial Arts Part 2" Black Belt Magazine (October, 2001)http://www.rmaxinternational.com/pressroom/magazine_articles/PDF/BBM_10_2001.pdf. Coach Sonnon was appointed the North American Director of the Governing Body for Russian Martial Art R.O.S.S. in May 1996. http://www.micmaccentre.ca/russian-martial-arts.php

In 2007, Alexander Retuinskih was voted one of the "100 Most Influential People in Russia".http://bushido.org/whfsc/newsletter/whfsc46.htm General Retuinskih presented ROSS in the History Channel's martial art documentary entitled "The Human Weapon Episode: Sambo

Sambo (martial art)

Russia's Extreme Fighting". http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=55009&display_order=5&sub_display_order=13&mini_id=54986

External links

The History of Russian Martial Art ROSS http://formauk.net/page3/page3.html
Special "Russian Martial Arts" Edition issue - World of Martial Arts Magazine (May 1999)http://www.rmaxinternational.com/pressroom/magazine_articles/PDF/World_of_MA.pdf
"Secrets of Russian Martial Arts" Black Belt Magazine (February 2001)http://www.rmaxinternational.com/pressroom/magazine_articles/PDF/BBM_09_2001.pdf
"Secrets of Russian Martial Arts Part 2" Black Belt Magazine (October, 2001)http://www.rmaxinternational.com/pressroom/magazine_articles/PDF/BBM_10_2001.pdf
The History of Russian Martial Art R.O.S.S. by USA National Coach Scott Sonnon http://www.completemartialarts.com/information/styles/russian/russianhistory.htm
Evolution from Russian Sambo and R.O.S.S. by USA National Coach Scott Sonnon http://www.budo-fitness.se/budoinfogallery/sambo.html

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