-Jack Dempsey ch1 pg1 Championship FightingWhat would happen if a year-old baby fell from a fourth-floor window onto the head of a burly truck driver, standing on the sidewalk?
It's practically certain that the truckman would be knocked unconscious. He might die of brain concussion or a broken neck.
Even an innocent little baby can become a dangerous missile WHEN ITS BODY-WEIGHT IS SET INTO FAST MOTION.
I've done Savate before, good art and very mobile. There's a lot of chambering, and it's very much based on maintaining a beat to your movement.
Proper savate kicks very hard, and with very penetrating kicks.
We don't talk about it because it's French. No one wants to talk about the French.
And Fa Xing said penetrating!
For whoso comes amongst many shall one day find that no one man is by so far the mightiest of all.
Many people don't know that Savate also trains the "walking stick" as a weapon, case in point:
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
French Savate is primarily a kicking art, but they also have some pretty good punching techniques as well. They do a lot of dancing like boxers too. I once had a discussion with a fine Savate artist, and he told me that he only kicked high when it was pretty much a guarantee. Mostly low kicks and sweeps, bringing an opponents defenses down to allow hand techniques to be more effective. After all said and done, I think I could have fought him, but would not have really wanted to.
Jackie Lee
Savate was created on the decks of French Ships that traveled trade routes in asia in the 16 and 1700s.
The French sailors were fascinated with the Asian fighting styles they witnessed and developed it from that. that is the broad 80.000ft view, but it is more or less what happened. IE: It is not particular to France and was adopted traditions that became particularly French.
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