Soviet Strength Training

Scott Sonnon: As the USA Police Team Coach of the most brutal form of martial art created in the former Soviet Union - SAMBO, I took our national team to Lithuania for World Championships, and there we met the team from Tajikistan. Their wrestlers were incredibly well conditioned, and literally throwing their opponents off the mats. Knowing that there was more than meets the eye, I investigated. They shared with me their strength training methods transliterated as zurhkane or zoorkhane - which means “The House of Power.” One of the methods of this millennia old tradition originating in ancient Persia was “club swinging.” This confirmed research I had been conducting since the beginning of the 1990s into alternative conditioning methods of Russia, India and turn of the century North America.

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