American UNIFIGHT Federation
Unifight as a sport was originally designed as a complex combat application, which is integrated into itself the best Russian and foreign developments and progressive international experience in the field of martial arts, as well as applied and combat sports.
The practical implementation of this objective in 1996 was headed by Olympic champion in judo, Ph.D. Novikov Sergey, which was prepared under the direction of the concept and the first version of the rules of “Russian fight”.
UNIFIGHT as an individual kind of sports is related to the development of applied single combats:
- hand-to-hand fighting
- self-defense wrestling
- judo
- jiu-jitsu
- boxing, and kickboxing tied together with shooting
- MMA
- Muay Thai
- karate
- cold steel throwing
- the elements of shooting range
Today Unifight does not have an alternative in the sphere of applied kinds of sports. This kind of sports is attributed to unique double events including the overcoming of a strip of obstacles, shooting, running, knife shying, and a fight in a ring admitting feet and hand knocking and suffocate painful techniques.
The popularity of Unifight may be explained by the fact that single combats used as a background of special training of the personnel of institutions defending law and order and power structures have surpassed the limits of an official applied discipline and turned Into popular individual kinds of sports.
