Systema
Russian combat and conditioning system
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Systema (Russian: Система, romanized: Sistema, lit. 'system') is a Russian martial art, since 1993.[1][2] There are multiple schools of systems that began appearing after the end of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, with teachers claiming their respective "systems" (usually named after themselves).[citation needed] Training includes, but is not limited to: hand-to-hand combat, grappling, knife fighting, and firearms training. Training involves drills and sparring without set kata.