The purpose of this investigation was to analyze the basic skills and tactics of samba in relation to world samba championship and to find ways to improve exercise skills and competitiveness of Japanese samba athletes.
The results of this research are provided below.
1) The results of men’s 9 weight divisions, which included 150 games, are as follows. Win by the difference of points accounted for 75 games (50% of all). Win by ippon accounted for 68 games (45.3% of all). The details of ippon were joint locking 37 games (24.7%), technical 24 games (16.0%) and Throwing 7 games (4.7%).
2) The technique for getting a point directly included 352 patterns in all Standing technique had 303 patterns of getting point (as applied from judo technique to samba technique) were kata-guruma, kutiki-daosi, seoinage, hikikomi-gaesi, utimata from many turns. They accounted for 50.9% of all.
3) It was suggested the importance of mastering the technique of let a knee arrive such as uki-otoshi and kouchi-gari to score active point.
4) Combination technique accounted for 30.1% (109 patterns) in getting point technique 352 patterns. The details of 109 patterns were combination from technique to standing technique 41 patterns and to ground fighting technique 68 patterns.
The results of this study suggested that the characteristics of the sambo are different from those of judo and it is necessary to master hand techniques such as kata-guruma and kutiki-daosi to score a point. In addition, it also became clear the need to master techniques such as uki-otoshi and kouchi-gari to score active point.
