This is one stuff they'll never teach you in thai, because it's not as effective as a low kick without shoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-_x0UPhalE and here they show it thrown in the thigh, which is valid enough with shoes but not the actual real deal Now the thing is, that particular kick was for street fight, in the early 1900's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savate#Early_history >>Savate takes its name from the French for "old shoe" (heavy footwear, especially the boots used by French military and sailors) (cf. French-English loanwords sabot and sabotage and Spanish cognate zapato). The modern formalized form is mainly an amalgam of French street fighting techniques from the beginning of the 19th century. Savate was then a type of **street fighting** common in Paris and northern France.[9][10][11] And like karate and muay thai or muay boran, it has been turned into a sport, while it's not a sport Well, that particular kick, is to be used with shoes like those https://pic8.co/sh/c1WQPH.jpeg ( <- my actual shoes) at clinch/clinch distance