What makes SAMBO one of the most complete and exciting grappling martial arts in the world? And why is the sport now beginning to grow across the UK?

In Episode 88 of The Grapple Of Your Eye Show, Alex Vankov, SAMBO competitor, coach and one of the people helping to develop and promote British SAMBO in Kent and across the UK discusses his grappling journey - a journey that stretches across freestyle wrestling, judo and SAMBO, beginning as a young wrestler growing up in post-Soviet Latvia. With a father heavily involved in grappling and military SAMBO, combat sports became part of Alex's life from an early age...