Savate or French Boxing
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Savate (French
pronunciation: [saˈvat]), also known as boxe
française, savate boxing, French boxing or French
footfighting, is a French combat sport that uses the
hands and feet as weapons combining elements of English boxing with graceful kicking techniques.[4][5][6][7][8]
Only
foot kicks are allowed, unlike some systems such as Muay Thai, which allow the
use of the knees or shins. Savate
is a French word for "old shoe or boot". Savate fighters wear
specially designed boots. A male practitioner of savate is called a tireur
while a female is called a tireuse
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]
French boxing
"tireurs" in 1900
Boxe française -
Savate- 1896
1897 Boxe
Francaise (Savate) & Baton Demonstration - Lyon France
French boxing
(savate) in the military - 1898-1900
La Boxe Francaise
(Savate) - Charles Charlemont 1924
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