Project Author

Alexander Shlychkov is the Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Martial Artist of the Russian Union of Martial Arts, President of the European Lethwei Federation, President of the All-Russian Physical and Sports Public Organization Aimed to Develop Filipino Martial Arts, member of the Presidium of the Russian Army Tactical Shooting Federation, author of the close combat system “Golden Triangle” and of a new format of fitness discipline “Close Combat Studio”, holder of 5th Dan in taekwondo.

Biography

Alexander Shlychkov was born in Ust-Labinsk, Krasnodar Krai. When he studied at school, he joined a Greco-Roman wrestling group trained by the honored coach of Russia Vladimir Alekhin. He entered the Suvorov Military School in Moscow after finishing school. He undertook his further studies at the Donetsk higher military-political school. During the studies, he trained in a karate group led by Valery Medvedev (7th Dan Shotokan) and Sergei Lapshin (8th Dan Shotokan, three-time champion of Ukraine, bronze medal winner at the first all-union competition in Tallinn, master of sports of Ukraine). He won a prize at the Ukrainian Karate Championship as a part of the Donetsk Region team and qualified as a candidate master of sports in karate.

From 1983 to 1985, Alexander Shlychkov served with the limited Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

In 1986, he took part in the post-accident clean up at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

In 1990, he retired from the army for health limitations with the rank of captain.

In the early 1990s, Shlychkov arranged and took the lead of the Voronezh regional martial arts school “Shield” under the Voronezh Regional Sports Committee, where he started to develop and promote martial arts actively.

Taekwondo

From December 1990 to March 1991, he was doing an internship at the Taekwondo Department of one of the leading institutions in Korea - the Kyung Hee University (Seoul).

Alexander Shlychkov has been the head of the Voronezh Regional Federation of Taekwondo WTF since 1991.

Since 2010, Shlychkov has been involved in promoting healthy lifestyle and encouraging people with disabilities to take up sport. When the Russian Federation of Taekwondo for Persons with Locomotive Disabilities was established, he became its vice-president and then president in 2013. In 2011, the Russian team led the medal count at the first European Championship with five gold, five silver and five bronze medals.

In 2012, Alexander Shlychkov presided the European Para-Taekwondo Union. One of the key achievements at that position was para-taekwondo inclusion in the Paralympic Games, Tokyo 2020. The “Strong in Spirit” movie about para-taekwondo practitioners had its premiere just before the 11th Paralympic Games 2014 in Sochi. The film was directed by Andrei Nikishin and produced by Alexander Shlychkov.

In March 2014, Alexander Shlychkov became co-founder of the charity foundation “The Power of Spirit” aimed to support people with disabilities and to promote healthy lifestyle actively. He and the “World Class” fitness-club network put forward a public initiative and started works to make sports activities more accessible for disabled people in Moscow. In December 2015, Alexander Shlychkov was awarded with the Certificate of Merit for the Urban Community of the Moscow City Duma issued by the Moscow City Duma under the Statement No. 286.

Alexander Shlychkov was elected to the Para-Taekwondo Governing Board of the World Taekwondo Federation in 2015.

Southeast Asian Martial Arts

Since January 2016, Alexander Shlychkov has actively developed sports and cultural ties with the Southeast Asian countries, devoting all his free time to study traditional martial arts of this region.

He trained Burmese boxing Lethwei at the Myanmar school of traditional boxing at famous Thein Phyu Stadium in Yangon under the patronage of the President of the Myanmar Lethwei Federation Mr. U Thein Aung. In February 2018, Alexander Shlychkov was appointed the president of the European Association of Traditional Burmese Boxing (Lethwei) for his results achieved in Lethway mastering and development.

In 2017, Alexander Shlychkov completed an internship at the Singapore Pencak Silat Federation under the guidance of the world champion and president of the Asian Pencak Silat Federation Sheik Alau’ddin Yacoob and received a master degree with the right to teach and develop this field.

The academic research was taken as a basis for studying traditional Filipino martial arts. The first acquaintance with the Pekiti-Tirsia Kali school happened in 2017 in Moscow, when Alexander invited one of the leading coaches to conduct a one-month training course. At the end of the same year, Alexander had a weekly course with Master Nonoy Garucho in Bacolod on Negros island. Grand master Leo Gaye, the patriarch of the Pekiti-Tirsia Kali school, invited Alexander to follow an individual program for a month and a half. After that, business trips to the Philippines became regular and prolonged with visiting competitions, conventions, and training camps with both civil and military specialists.

In 2018, Alexander Shlychkov became a member of the Philippine Federation of Eskrima Kali Arnis (PEKAF) by invitation of Senator Miguel Zubiri, the president of the Philippine Federation.

«Golden Triangle» International Project

In 2018, Alexander Shlychkov co-founded the international expert and professional community “Golden Triangle” and became its president.

The “Golden Triangle System” International Project is an expert and professional community of the leading international trainers, doctors, and coaches representing various types of applied martial arts.

The “Golden Triangle” develops authorial programs for various social groups and separate units of security agencies. It also provides training to minimize the time spent to develop applied motor skills, to form stable reflexes adequate to an extreme situation that help to build a stable behavior model to suppress aggressor’s attack in the shortest time and with minimal possible losses.

The developed methods allow a quick switch from working in close combat without weapons to using special tools, cold-arms and firearms.

The “Golden Triangle” educational programs include healthcare and recovery techniques. For example, the “Spiral” program helps not only to unload a spine and create a core, but also to improve results in fire training, making a reliable shooting platform for a trainee, which ensures precision fire, particularly in motion.

The “Golden Triangle” Methodological Board includes not only internationally recognized coaches who participated in active combat, but also teachers and doctors with academic degrees and with their own healthcare and recovery techniques registered in Russia.

The “Golden Triangle” project was first presented and piloted within two months together with the units of the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Russian Ministry of Defense on CSKA facilities (Central Sports Club of the Army) in late 2018. Alexander Shlychkov is a member of the Public Council under the Chief of the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense.

The main task of the first training workshop was to train efficient use of special tools and to ensure firm reaction to attacks against military police officers serving in Syria.

From September to December 2019, the “Golden Triangle” masters conducted a training course with the task forces of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The aim of the course program was to develop skills that can ensure personal safety of police officers if cold weapon is used against them.

In mid-July 2019, the security assistant to the head of the Chechen Republic, the first deputy chief of the Russian National Guard Department in the Chechen Republic Daniil Martynov invited them to hold a one-week training at the Russian Special Forces University devoted to the close combat techniques using cold weapon with participation of OMON officers of the Russian National Guard in the Chechen Republic.

In 2019, a master class on the techniques and tactics for armed attack repelling and detention by special forces was held for the special purpose mobile units (OMON), special rapid response units (SOBR) and transport OMON of the National Guard Department in Voronezh Region.

From October 2019 to March 2020, the “Golden Triangle” technique was tested with the special response teams of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). Classes with the response teams of FSIN territorial bodies took place based on the Russian FSIN Directorate’s special response teams in Moscow and Moscow Region twice a week for each team. It allowed the following: to analyze raw information about professional and applied physical condition of the officers, to obtain their comments and recommendations concerning sections “Impact Protection” and “Protection Using Rubber Truncheon” of Chapter 11 “Wrestling Techniques”, “Instructions on Physical Training of the Penitentiary System Officers of the Ministry of Justice of Russia”. The information obtained in the course of working with the Russian FSIN officers underlies a more extended study involving researchers from the Federal Penitentiary Service. The collected material enables a definition study to perform research activity to further improve professional and applied physical training of the penitentiary system officers and eliminate the identified biomechanical characteristics incorrect from the point of combat use.

In 2019, Alexander Shlychkov was elected the president of the All-Russian Sports and Physical Training Public Organization Aimed to Develop Filipino Martial Arts, which became a member of the Russian Union of Martial Arts in 2020 and became a part of the World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation.

In 2020, Alexander Shlychkov was elected to the Presidium of the Army Tactical Shooting Federation.

Alexander Shlychkov is a candidate of pedagogical sciences and the author of a number of works published on the dissertation subject in leading journals and publications listed by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.

Representatives of the CIS security agencies also showed interest in the authorial methods developed by the team headed by Alexander Shlychkov. Starting from 2018, group studies have been provided for the troops of the State Protection and Guard Service of the Republic of Moldova every year. The Service director Yaroslav Martin expressed his gratitude for the assistance provided in improving the professional level of his subordinates.

In December 2019, a training workshop took place with the troops of the special force regiment “Shumkar” at the invitation of the Ministry of internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic to improve professional skills of the officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic. The Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs ordered to award Alexander Shlychkov with a Letter of Appreciation.

The Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Union of Martial Arts awarded the title of “Martial Artist” to Alexander Shlychkov on November 16, 2021.

Awards

Alexander Shlychkov has received the following awards for his work: