Vladislav koulikov biography template

Vladislav Koulikov has been training in the Russian martial art of Sambo from a very young age in Moscow. Since moving to the USA, he has trained and competed in submission grappling & wrestling.

In this interview with BJJ Eastern Europe, Vladislav talks about his training background, Sambo- Jiu-Jitsu fusion system and Russian fighters in MMA:

Hi Vladislav can you please introduce yourself to the BJJ community of Eastern Europe?

My name is Vladislav, but everybody calls me Vlad ( my coach started it ) I was born in Moscow on dec I was supposed to be born in 75 but my mom, who was petit had real hard time by the end of the pregnancy.

I weighed 5 kg when I was born. My dad was an athlete and as a child I idolized him.

Vladislav koulikov biography template

So I took to athletics pretty naturally. I remember in the summer camp, right after the first grade, I was able to do 10 pull ups first time I jumped on a bar. My cousin Vasily directed me to Sambo 70 which happened to be couple blocks away from my pare