Beverly Hills, CA – ISPAR Foundation, an international non-profit organization devoted to improving the lives of senior citizens, and the American Amateur SAMBO Federation, have teamed up to host the 18th USA and Pan-American SAMBO Championships.  The event, which will be held on Sunday, May 8th at the Rahway Recreational Center in Rahway, New Jersey, will feature all levels of competitions for both the US and Pan-American SAMBO championship titles. Athletes from 10 countries will be competing in the tournament. The winners will qualify to compete in the upcoming XXXV World Sports and Combat SAMBO Championships in Vilinius, Lithuania on November 10-14th, 2011.

“As an international organization that’s devoted to improving  the world economy and the lives of our senior citizens, we enthusiastically embrace SAMBO because it’s a global sport, it fosters international cooperation and social development, it’s great for health and fitness, and it also has a very active seniors/masters division,” said CJ Kuo, one of the event’s organizers and President and CEO of the ISPAR Foundation.

Rahway Recreational Center is located at Rahway City Center at 275 E. Milton Ave., near the NJ Transit Rahway Station, and is easily accessible via all major highways.

The competition is also sponsored by FIAS, Federation International Amateur SAMBO (www.sambo.com), the sport’s international governing body based in Lausanne, Switzerland.  FIAS has affiliates in 75 countries and growing.

About the organizers/hosts:

ISPAR Foundation (www.ispar.org) is an international non-profit organization that works to improve the lives of senior citizens and the communities they live in by helping seniors reclaim their rightful role as productive members of society and leverage the wealth of skills, talents, and experiences they have acquired over a lifetime. ISPAR does this by partnering seniors with entrepreneurs and business leaders looking to jointly develop best-in-class products and services for the booming senior market.

The American Amateur SAMBO Federation (http://www.sambo.com/aasf/index-en.html) is the United States federation for the sport of SAMBO, Russian “self-defense without weapons” (samozaschita bez oruzhiya).  Its mission is to promote and develop the sport of SAMBO in the US.