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From Athlete to Coach: 10 Years of International SAMBO Competition [Part 2]
You can read Part 1 of Reilly's journey by clicking here. A few years before moving from New Orleans to California, I made another attempt at the USA Sambo Championships. I won a silver medal as the only American-born citizen in a field of Russians and Moldovans. It would be a few years until the USA regulating body would separate the US Open from the US Championships, so American athletes were always doomed to losing their own national event to better ex-Soviet Bloc Sambists. Regardless, I was proud that I advanced one podium spot since the last time I tried. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Reilly Bodycomb (@rdojo) on Oct 31, 2017 at 10:34am PDT The...
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From Athlete to Coach: 10 Years of International SAMBO Competition [Part 1]
You likely know Reilly Bodycomb for his legendary leglock highlights and his deep library of grappling instructionals. In this post, Reilly pulls back to the curtain to talk about some of the early highlights of his career.
Meet the Pandas – The Mighty Mexican Combat Wrestler - Javier Palomo
Javier Palomo is as dedicated as they come, and his decorated competition history reflects that. Daniel Bertina has the interview.
Meet the Pandas – Reilly Bodycomb – The Flying Scissor Leglock Wizard
We like to give some insight in what drives our sponsored athletes, and why we are proud to support them. Previously, we talked to Eric Sian, Guam’s first world champion grappler. For this installment of Meet the Pandas we speak to Reilly Bodycomb: sambo champion, leglock wizard and all-round badass grappler. Reilly Bodycomb (32) has been leglocking people into submission since 2005. He became famous for his own dynamic, take-no-prisoners grappling style – honed by his instructor ‘Sambo’ Steve Koepfer at New York Combat Sambo, his excellent coaching ability, and his willingness to share his leglock knowledge in various instructionals. Reilly’s been on a tear this year, winning gold at the Sambo Nationals, the Sambo Pan-Ams and the Dutch Sambo...
Watching Sambo Panams and Sipping Terere in Paraguay
My friend Reilly Bodycomb won the Sambo US Nationals a few weeks ago. One of the perks for winning was securing a spot on the US team at the Panamerican and World tournaments. The Panamerican was held in Paraguay this year. Since Reilly doesn't speak much Spanish besides asking for a cold Coca-cola, he asked me to come along to be his translator and guide. I've always been intrigued by the idea of going to a large sambo tournament, and I had never visited Paraguay, so after some planning, I booked two flights out of JFK and we were off in an adventure.After nearly missing our flight (since we were too busy playing Magic: The Gathering to hear that our...
Adventures in Reaping Land: A Review of Reilly Bodycomb's Rdojo Camp
Back in February of this year, I got to go to the three day Rdojo Camp at Garden State Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Red Bank, NJ. It’s time that I finally wrote a review. Over those days, I shared an Airbnb rental with Nelson and Hillary as well as Reilly Bodycomb and his grappling Pokémon Elliott Hill. We ran several Magic drafts and debated late into the night about medieval battle tactics, but I’ll write about that another time. The Rdojo camp had a major focus on leglocks (big surprise!) but also went into wrestling offense and defense, kneeride and top game, and a widely varied open-ended Q&A session. The entire camp was filmed by Jason Scully for the Grapplers Guide...
Confessions of a Takedown Addict
My name is Nelson, and I love takedowns. Don’t get me wrong: I love guard passing and sweeps as much as the next jiu-jitsu guy, but I there is a special place on my heart for takedowns, especially big throws. I have competed in Wrestling (high school level) and judo, but this weekend I finally competed in sambo. Competing in sambo has been on my bucket list for a long time. I have been telling myself I would jump on a tournament for years now but never pulled the trigger. This weekend, I was at a camp run by my friend Reilly Bodycomb, and on the last day of camp he held a small in house tournament. I was out...
Ten Years Without Reaping: Time to Reevaluate
The term “cruzada de perna” was added to the CBJJ rulebook in 2006. It is eventually translated into “knee reaping,” entering just about every BJJ players vocabulary not much time later. The rule change trickled down from the IBJJF, which at the time was the only major host of world-class tournaments before they expanded to host “opens” all over the world in smaller regional formats. Many grapplers today were not around when you could go for a footlock and not worry if your foot crossed over the knee reaping line. Knee reaping has been around for almost ten years at this point, and I believe this one change has had a great impact on the sport than any other action...