Hell no. Coach is fairly based. He makes nazzee jokes with me. He's the one who taught me that the roman salute and nsdap salute are the same
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
That called an oblique kick. While not exactly illegal in mma, it's a huge dick move imo. Only use it if you don't mind ending someone's career.
Make sure you shadow box in your steel toes every now and then. It feels much different than being barefooted and you run the risk of losing your footing in a fight if you're not used to the extra weight added to your foot work
Savate is a pretty cool martial art. Europeans had mma style sword fighting. I wish we passed it down as culture the way the Japanese and other asian countries do.
(post is archived)