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Alexander Ivanovich Retuinskih was born on February
28, 1953 in Dzerzhinsk, in the Nizhniy Novgorod region to a family
of workers.
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From 1971 to 1973, he served in the ranks of the Soviet army.
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In 1982, Alexander Retuinskih completed his
schooling at The Kuban State Institute of Physical Training and
Sports with a specialty of trainer-teacher.
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Alexander Retuinskih is a Master of Sport of the
USSR in Sambo and Judo. He was a prize-winner and the champion of
all-Union and All-Russian competitions.
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He is a distinguished trainer of Russia.
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He is an academician at the Academy of Combat sports (ASE) at the
Russian State University of Physical Training and Sports in Moscow.
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From 1982 to 1989, he was the trainer-teacher for the Sambo and Judo
specializations at the Krasnodar Agricultural Institute (KSI) and
the assistant to the dean of agrochemical faculty on a physical
education.
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Since 1990, he as been the founder of a project of revival of
Russian Martial Art as a part of fighting national culture of the
Russian people.
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In 1993, for work done on the restoration of a complete system of
Sambo, Alexander Retuinskih was selected by the
Chairman of the Committee of Samboof Russia and the Vice-President
of the Commission of Sambo-wrestling at FIAS (the International
Federation of Amateur Sambo).
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Alexander Retuinskih is the creator of a modern,
sports-fighting, medical-improving, spiritually-moral system of
preparation known as ROSS (the Russian
Native System of Self-Defense).
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The ROSS Training System is the founder's creative
endeavor of generalizing experience and knowledge that he received
as the result of long-term commitment to Sambo, Judo, and studying
various kinds of self-defense and hand-to-hand combat.
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The ROSS Training System is defined as "know-how"
and was registered at the state enterprise "Information patent" by
the Committee of the Russian Federation on patents on April 4, 1995. |
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The ROSS Training System is a new brand of training
and perfection of skills from a position of an individual's natural
movements for achieving a high-level, sports-fighting result. The
Russian Native System of Self-Defense (ROSS) was designed for people
of any age and any state of health. The acquisition of skills and
abilities is done on the basis of studying Russian national games,
dances, kinds of combat, and hand-to-hand fighting, as well as the
ability to carry out a fight with the least expenditure of strength,
time, and energy.
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ROSS is constructed on effective actions that take into account the
biomechanical features of a person, keeping in mind how each person
differs. Elements of movements and sequences of performance
exercises are done by means of genetic skills in each person to use
the internal congenital reflexes named «the Block of natural
reactions of an organism» for a given situation.
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Since 1991, Alexander Retuinskih has conducted
about 200 All-Russian, all-Union and International training seminars
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Alexander Retuinskih has prepared and certified
more than 300 first category instructors, working more than in 100
cities of Russia.
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In February, 1992 the Ministry of Justice of Russia registered the
Federation of Russian Martial Art (FRMA)
as having the All-Russian status.
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Since 1992, Alexander Retuinskih has been the
President of the All-Russia Federation of Russian Martial Art.
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The Federation has the representatives in more than
45 regions of Russia and the CIS (Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) and
abroad (the Baltic States, the USA, England, Scotland, Holland,
Sweden, Finland, Canada, Germany, Australia). More than 100,000
people have trained in the ROSS Training System.
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In May 1994, the Federation was recognized by and
was registered by the Olympic Committee of Russia as a unique sports
public association in Russia, having powers on development of this
kind of sports at a federal level and to representation of its
interests abroad.
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In 2000, Alexander Retuinskih was an authorized
representative to Putin V.V. , the candidate to the post of
President of the Russian Federation.
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Alexander Retuinskih became the head of department
on combat training of the General Staff of the Union of the Cossack
Armies of Russia and abroad .
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Alexander Retuinskih became a Major General of the
Cossack armies.
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Alexander Retuinskih has written eight candidate
papers and one thesis for a doctor's degree on the Russian Native
System of Self-Defense .
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Alexander Retuinskih is the author of the book
«Russian Style of Hand-to-Hand Combat» of 1991, published in Russia
and in the USA; the methodical grant «Biomechanics of
Movements in Hand-to-Hand Combat – Russian style » (1999,
Yaroslavl), and also programs of students training on RMA-ROSS at
P.F.Lesgafta, St.-Petersburg.
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Alexander Retuinskih is the editor-in-chief and the
author of the popular, scientific, sports-methodical magazine
«Russian Martial Art ÐÎÑÑ».
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Alexander Retuinskih helped create 23 art and
chronicle video films including «Remember, Brothers, the Glory of
Russia…» and «Lessons of Great Masters», 13 of which have the status
of a national film with the registered State Cinemas, .
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In 1999, Alexander Retuinskih became a member of
World Head of Family Sokeship Council, the International
Organization of Grand Masters of martial arts, with assignment of a
rank of the Grand Master Russian Martial Art - ROSS. (Orlando, FL).
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In 2000, the World Head of Family Sokeship Council recognized and
has certificated the ROSS Training System as a new
sports-fighting direction for the 21st century and has included it
in the encyclopedia of martial arts of the world. Its founder—
Alexander Retuinskih— has been recognizes as person
of year.
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Direct participation of ROSS instructors in 2001 for the preparation
of a youth ice-hockey team of Native American in the USA (a
semiprofessional ice-hockey team of Northern Michigan) has taken
place. Upon conclusion, the general manager-trainer and the captain
thanked the special trainings on ROSS to the players of the
team for their endurance, speed, mental stability, and mobility had
been raised during the season. For the entire season, there were no
serious injuries. The team rose in one year from eighth place to
first in their subgroup.
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The American Center of Neurosurgery uses exercises of the ROSS
Training System for the treatment of patients with mental status
impairments and brain damage, and also for the restoration of
movements of joints. From the Neurosurgery Center, a positive
response has been received.
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The American Association of Psychiatrists, studying the influence of
the consistent use of ROSS exercises on patients with
craniocereberal traumas and paralyses, has come to the conclusion
about the necessity for the introduction of a similar practice for
the rehabilitation of patients through exercises of the ROSS
Training System, as it has produced very good medical-restoring
results.
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By keeping historical and cultural experience of our ancestors and
acquiring new knowledge and skills, youth receive an outlook that is
based on the spiritual beginnings of the Russian Fatherland.
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The study of Russian Martial Art as a part of the
general culture of the Russian people leads to complete spiritual
and physical development of the rising generation.
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