OLD school French boxing SAVATE

http://www.savate.tk - BLOG. Great fighters of savate were the first full contact boxers in Europe. Fred Royers (eurosport), Jotic (WAKO-Serbia), Ernesto Hoost (K1) are some names. Francois Pennacchio (savate) - won a match against Ramon Dekkers (muay thai) and Alain Zankifo (savate) won Mike Zambidis (K1). Later Farid Khider (savate) won Yuma Yamamoto (K1.
Is savate really to dangerous to be internationalised or is it just because of its european roots?

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[jacko821]

I'd like to see some of the thuggish forms of Savate (I hope that made sense) you know, street savate as it was back in the old days.

[pugilistica]

"Filipino fighting techniques"??? Where on Earth did you come up with that one? What contact did the English have with the Philippines back in the days of Broughton (who published his set of Rules in 1743), let alone in January 1681 when the Protestant Murcury were the first known newspaper to report on a Boxing match!

[Dimitri0809]

The suits look really cool.

[moussleouf]

@snkhuong

u're stupid aren't you ? .... no gloves = dead fighters.

[snkhuong]

how can u call it full contact when gloves are used ?

[colstreamer]

@colstreamer don't think I believe there is any Philippino influence in savate or any other european martial art. It is inconceivable that only one group of people in one part of the world could come up with the idea of kicking their opponents. There were martial arts in europe well before any european travelled to asia, James Figg, Jack Broughton's predecessor taught much more than just punching in his system of combat.

[colstreamer]

@pugilistica Well yeah I don't know the entire history of western europe off the top of my head, I knew about the treaty of windsor, and after you said england and spain were not on friendly terms I had to have a think as I was sure Henry VIII never had a war with Spain, France for sure as he was a claimant to the french throne. I changed "could have" to d

"did have" after a quick check, I knew Magellan was portugese but was unaware that he got spanish citizenship.

[colstreamer]

@pugilistica yet some did make it back who's to say which ones.

[kenseisato1989]

@pugilistica

thanks already on it :)

[pugilistica]

@kenseisato1989 Do a Google images search for 'Rivat Savate boots' and you'll see.

[pugilistica]

@colstreamer Yes, 5 Spanish ships, with around 240 men in total. What percentage of those were likely to have been English? And considering that most of them never made it back anyway, what number of those who made it back were likely to have been English. So my original argument stands.