{"id":590231,"date":"2026-10-16T16:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=590231"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:26:49","slug":"come-on-hit-me-lukashenka-recalls-harrowing-childhood-encounter-with-a-sambo-wrestler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/come-on-hit-me-lukashenka-recalls-harrowing-childhood-encounter-with-a-sambo-wrestler","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCome On, Hit Me!\u201d Lukashenka Recalls Harrowing Childhood Encounter With a Sambo Wrestler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> demonstrated self-defence techniques, explained how to defend against a knife attack, and recounted an encounter with a sambo wrestler during his childhood.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to the Vierkhnyadzvinsk District, Lukashenka was shown how members of the people&#8217;s militia units had mastered hand-to-hand combat techniques.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIt&#8217;s what a man needs. It won&#8217;t do any harm,\u201d<\/i> Lukashenka commented.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka could not resist offering some valuable advice and recounted how a sambo wrestler had twisted his arm when he was a child.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI was watching closely. Teach them how to defend against an upward knife attack. If he strikes upward with his right hand, you intercept it, twist his arm, and that&#8217;s it \u2014 take him down. This was the first technique a sambo wrestler showed me when I was a child in the village. He said, \u2018Come on, come on, hit me.\u2019 He twisted my arm and then suddenly threw me forward. He dislocated my shoulder. That&#8217;s why I still remember it. But you have to know how to defend against an upward strike,\u201d<\/i> Lukashenka said, demonstrating how to twist an opponent&#8217;s arm.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWhen someone is afraid, a person with a knife will always come at you. If he raises his arm, it takes a long time. You will have time to react. But if he strikes upward, you have to break his arm and that&#8217;s it \u2014 twist it,\u201d<\/i> Lukashenka advised.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_40426\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RANlRpock0A?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=ru&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=0&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliaksandr Lukashenka demonstrated self-defence techniques, explained how to defend against a knife attack, and recounted an encounter with a sambo wrestler during his childhood. During a visit to the Vierkhnyadzvinsk District, Lukashenka was shown how members of the people&#8217;s militia units had mastered hand-to-hand combat techniques. \u201cIt&#8217;s what a man needs. It won&#8217;t do any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":590232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad2342d57a81.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u201cCome On, Hit Me!\u201d Lukashenka Recalls Harrowing Childhood Encounter With a Sambo Wrestler"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590234,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590231\/revisions\/590234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}