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Scott Sonnon

Black Belt contributor Scott Sonnon is an international sambo coach and champion.
Scott Sonnon
(Photo by Rick Hustead)
In addition to serving as the U.S. National Sambo Team coach and a top-level referee, Scott Sonnon is a national and international champion. As the first American to study behind the Iron Curtain with the USSR’s national and Olympic coaches, he earned the Honourable Master of Sport diploma. In the 1990s, he was appointed chairman for establishing the rules structure for sambo's mixed-martial art competition.

Sonnon has trained Alberto Crane, Elvis Sinosic, Andrei Arlovski, Jorge Rivera and Egan Inoue. He’s also worked as a training adviser for the National Law Enforcement and Security Institute, the U.S. Army Combatives School, Italian counterterrorism units, Australian law-enforcement personnel, Russian special forces and the Norwegian military security forces.

For more information about Sonnon, visit www.rmaxinternational.com.


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