Ilnaz Saifullin: as a child, he sat on the splits and watched movies Jean-Claude Van Damme

The young trainer-teacher of the Volga region Academy Of sports ilnaz Saifullin still quite recently came to a ring, once again having won the all-Russian competitions. A three-time world champion and world Cup winner, he now sees himself as a certified coach, able to pass on his experience and knowledge to young kickboxers who represent the Academy of sports.
"IN OUR SPORT, THE NECESSARY COACHES, WHO HAVE PROFILE EDUCATION»
- Ilnaz irekovich, tell us about the development of kickboxing, a sport that is new to the Volga region Academy of sports.
- I work at the Department of theory and methodology of physical culture and sports, simultaneously engaged in the development of Boxing, and above all kickboxing. Now we have a good team of children, thanks to last year's set, we were able to equip a good team, mainly gathered from the pupils of local schools. I'm talking about Boxing. In structural work, we are able to show good results. If you touch kickboxing, then there is also someone to work with. Now we took the second team place in Boxing and kickboxing at the sports festival of universities of Tatarstan.
- Lost to who?
-The team of KSU (Kazan state University of architecture and construction) became the strongest. But, again, we have a lot of freshmen, and in the future we are able to win. However, we don't have enough students to "close" all weight categories therefore it is necessary to maneuver, exposing on some categories on two participants, because somewhere we have no strong fighters.
– But here is important not only the immediate result. With all due respect to the current victories of the same team of kgasu, it is unlikely that his athletes in the future will go to the sphere of sports training. In particular, because they will not have specialized education.
– That's it. The College years are important from the point of view of improving his skill, shall we say, more large-scale development. For example, I allow my kickboxers to go to tournaments in related shock disciplines, and Boxing, and Taekwondo, and so on. You can, by the way, to practice in another sport, thereby expanding the horizons of sports. This I say from my own experience, when as a child I supplemented training with acrobatics, swimming, even dancing and kettlebells. All in order to gain additional experience, which could then help to improve on the main sport – kickboxing. Now we are involved in kickboxing fighters, who might want to pull the shock technique, then to try his hand at mixed martial arts. But the result of training in the Volga region Academy of sports, I believe, should be the knowledge, skills that will help graduates to become certified coaches. In General, this can be called a task for the lion's share of our students. To enrich your experience with the scientific base, knowledge of the same physiology, biochemistry and biomechanics, in order to work as effectively as possible in the coaching field. This is not just a requirement of officials to work as coaches people with specialized education.
- Just to oppose to you, I note that earlier the coach, for example in any of the styles of karate, could be a person who simply has some experience and desire to work. And there was nothing wrong with that.
– I will answer for myself. Despite my considerable experience in kickboxing, I plan to continue my studies at the Academy of sports, having entered the postgraduate course. What is important is not just their tried and tested methods to try out then on the students, it is important that they be justified from a scientific point of view. In this regard, just an Amateur coach grows to the level of an expert, a professional in his field. By the way, I'm interested in improving myself.
"THE RING, FITNESS AND GAME ROOMS, SWIMMING POOL: WE HAVE EVERYTHING»
- Concerning the mixed single combats, I will assume that there are no certified trainers yet, it is banal from-for youth of this sport.
– I can't tell precisely, but I will note that now really many are engaged in the mixed single combats, and about those who would be engaged in trainer's work, I didn't hear. I think that the guys there are coaches who spetsializiruyutsya either for fighting, or percussion disciplines, and those who could teach methods of combat in General may have not prepared. Maybe they are, I just don't know them.
- Your Department is one of the youngest in the University. How do you attract young people who want to devote their lives to martial arts?
- First, we are carrying out presentation work with the federations. Secondly, the infrastructure capabilities of the Academy of sports allow everyone to train here, including the "strikers". For example, in the water sports Center there is a ring. There's a pool, just like in the Petrel. In the educational and laboratory building there is a game room. All of these sports complexes have gyms for strength work, to improve endurance. The stadium, swimming pools, all this allows students of our Academy to conduct their training on their own base, without looking for the opportunity to spend some training on the side. I haven't said that about the scientific basis. I have never seen such conditions for the training process during my sports career, for which I would like to Express my gratitude to the leadership of our Academy of sports, headed by the rector Yusup Digansheevich Yakubov, who meets the wishes of our athletes not only in training and training, but also in the competitive process. Although, we do not have an Olympic sport, however, it is developing successfully, for example, now being recognized by FISU and becoming a mandatory type of competition program of the world Universiade. The possibility of its inclusion in the Olympic program is also considered. Therefore, we need qualified personnel, because kickboxing is not only coaches, judges, but also referees, who also need specialized education.
– In terms of a possible Olympic debut, I assume that kickboxing has such a powerful trump card as the support of the us Olympic Committee. Because the sport itself was born in America, and it dominated it.
- Her dominance is in the past. Both at the European and world level, Russia is now ahead. For this we do not like, try to shift from first. Including through anti-doping committees. I remember, at the world Cup I went to doping control when there passed tests four more Russians and three Ukrainians. No one else. And such cases are typical. We do, however, their leadership position not pass, the team occupying first place on the European and world Championships over the past fifteen years.
"AFTER THE FALL FROM THE ROOF OF MY SPINAL COLUMN WAS BROKEN IN SEVEN PLACES»
– How many years have you in the team?
- In 2007, at the age of 17, I was a Junior, and since 2008 I have been a stable member of the national team. Three times he became the world champion and the world Cup winner, four times he won Europe, nine times he won the national championship, and this is only for Amateurs, because I have titles at the professional level.
– It's not even clear that this award-winning athlete very little was heard in Tatarstan.
- I was born and started doing kickboxing in Naberezhnye Chelny, grew to the level of a member of the national team, after which we with coach Sergei Gennadievich Osipov decided to move to Chelyabinsk – one of the strongest centers of the Russian kickboxing, where I trained for the last ten years. Only last year I returned home and work at the Academy of sports for less than a year, becoming its employee in September 2017.
- Tell us about yourself, about the beginning of your journey in sports.
- Even before school, I was brought to the kickboxing section, while doing acrobatics. Parents, thus, tried to channel my boundless energy to the sports channel, because I was so restless that even make me go to sleep was a problem for mom.
- The nineties, when you just started doing kickboxing, is the heyday of movies about martial arts. Chuck Norris, Don The Dragon Wilson, Jean-Claude Van Damme…
- We grew up in the films with the last hero. I remember, to achieve a similar stretch, I sat on the twine on two stools, and revised at this moment "blood sport". In addition, from childhood I remember "mortal Kombat", where, in addition to martial arts, demonstrated some semi-skilful tricks. To be like the characters in this film, I started doing acrobatics. These films from my childhood was a very serious motivation for our development in the sport.
But in the sixth grade there was a tragedy – I fell from the roof. As a result, broke a backbone in seven places, legs shattered, on them put Ilizarov's device, collecting the left foot on pieces. Alas, we failed to cure, left leg and left smaller right.
As a result, I lost a year of training because of this treatment, although doctors generally put an end to any sports activities in the future. But I decided to go against it, especially because during the treatment I did not feel better, even stronger. As a result, I decided to return to sports. Threw crutches, took off a corset though doctors about it expressed categorically that didn't remove, and slowly began to move. At first I crawled, then I started walking, finally I went to training. The first month of classes was like hell, muscles for a year atrophied, hurt the whole body. But then the pain became less and in the end I can say that sport helped me to overcome the residual effects of this terrible injury. Four years after this injury, I showed up for my first competition and won them. A year later won the championship of the Volga region by light contact and full contact.

"MOVED TO CHELYABINSK TO IMPROVE MY KICKBOXING»
- For people who are not familiar with the terminology, it sounds Abracadabra.
– Light-contact is light weight division of Boxing. There is no hard, accented beats and prized, above all, technique. Fights are held on the tatami. There are other disciplines where fights are held in the ring. This full-contact-this is a section similar to Boxing – exchange of blows. Full contact with low kicks means that a fighter can perform a basic kick in kickboxing, Shin on the Shin or thigh. Initially I just physically could not hold low-kick because I've been hurt worse than the enemy. Had to aim either in the body or in the head, so it was less painful. There are seven-contact, somewhat similar to fencing, when a person carries out an attack and the fight is interrupted. Recently emerged still and kik-light. There is a discipline K-1, a duel in which resembles the rules of Thai Boxing, the toughest section of kickboxing. However, Europeans prefer to develop less rigid sections, and light contact, and seven-contact, less rigid and traumatic.
- In other words, a gifted person can, in the future, become a champion in six disciplines at once in one year.
- Yes,but you are not surprised by the Champions, for example, in swimming, who quickly swim in several styles. So we had a rule that allowed to apply in several disciplines. However, as far as I know, now you can participate in no more than two disciplines. It is easy to explain. I had a friend who in one year won three Championships of Russia, and on all selected on the international competitions where had to represent the national team at once in three disciplines. And it's just physically impossible to do.
– You yourself have won some starts in two disciplines at once. What, by the way, the discipline you prefer, and what achieved success.
– For me, the classic kickboxing is a full-contact. I would have voted for it if it had been decided which particular discipline should be represented in the Olympic program. I repeat, I achieved my first success still playing for Tatarstan, when at the championship of Russia I fulfilled the standard of the master of sports, while still a Junior. The next year he became the champion of Russia, went to the European championship and there met with the head coach of the national team Farigat Kasymov. He is from Chelyabinsk, where, again, one of the strongest schools in our sport was created. I moved there for further improvement, because I did not see any opportunities for professional growth in Chelny. He is largely in the conduct of sparring, training with strong fighters, for which you reach and add to the skill, even without noticing it.
"VESMA CAN "PLAY". BUT TO DO IT PROPERLY FROM A SCIENTIFIC POINT OF VIEW»
- You "drove weight" to get into the framework of its category?
- Yes, and, had to do it throughout his career. As the juniors started racing to get in a category to 48 kg, which was then abolished. I remember, I made weight, arrived on competitions, and 48 kg already abolished, it was necessary to box in the following category to 51 kg.
- And why so many categories for light weight. If you look at the heavyweights, the difference between categories can reach 10 kg. Let 81 and 91 kilograms. And the weight category go through the three keys: 48, 51, 54 and so on.
- Believe me, the light weight is not that 3 kg, there is a difference of half a kilogram can be felt. I had a fight already on the Pro when the rival weighed on two kg more and it was very well felt on density of blows. In athletes in the heavy weight category, the difference in weight can be compensated by speed. Or I once came to "Russia", and could easily get into the category of up to 51 kg, when I need to be able to drive just half a kilogram. But I decided not to do it, and then on the application I learned that on 51 kg nine people were declared, and on my category in 54 24 people were declared. That is, there it was necessary to carry out on two fights more to reach the final. It's okay, won all four fights and became the first champion of the country.
- I had to see how the riders, after weighing, one SIP emptied a 1.5-liter bottle of water. However, it was at weightlifters. They remembered how they fainted in the sauna, how they felt bad after the race, after the loss of water-salt balance, and it was necessary to go to the competition.
- To weight loss must be approached correctly. Someone starts doing it almost before the competition. As a result, not driving extra pounds, and muscle mass. Or loses water, as you rightly pointed out, as a result of falling in its category but in the ring nothing presenting. Then it is necessary to take into account the nuances of a particular start. For example, at the Championships in light-contact is only one weigh-in before the start, and the tournament itself lasts a few days. By the final, the athlete can gain 8-10 kg more than his declared weight. But full-contact, about which I already spoke about how a more rigid discipline, the weighing takes place before each starting day, the soldier did not receive additional benefits due to weight gain. Weight can "play", here and then should come to the aid of sports science, the study of coaches which we have already talked.
According to the newspaper "BUSINESS Online»
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