Sibirsky Viun (Siberian System)
A Novosibirsk school of Russian close-combat founded in 1988 by Dmitry Skogorev. Close-range fighting, knife work and falls.
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About Sibirsky Viun (Siberian System)
Sibirsky Viun is a specific school of Russian close-combat based in Novosibirsk, not a generally recognised style. It presents itself as "RMA Systema SV," but it arose two years before Mikhail Ryabko's Systema, so it could not have derived from it. It was founded in 1988 by Dmitry Viktorovich Skogorev, author of the book Russian Hand-to-Hand Combat; as an organisation the school was registered in 1997. The year 1988 is given consistently by the sources we found. One English-language overview, however, writes that Skogorev was a sambo wrestler in the nineteen-eighties and only began studying the Russian style under various teachers at the start of the nineteen-nineties; we have not yet been able to resolve this contradiction. The curriculum rests on four parts: close-range fighting, knife work, falls and acrobatics, and unarmed self-defence. Falls and rolls are not an add-on but a discipline of their own — in systems of this circle, a mastered fall is what allows working close to an opponent without fearing a loss of balance. The school has branches beyond Novosibirsk too and belongs to the circle of Russian close-combat that began organising into federations in the nineteen-nineties. It is an original lineage, so its form is tied to the founder and his students, not to a unified methodology shared across Russia.
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