Knowra Savate Savate Savate is a French martial art and combat sport combining boxing punches with kicks delivered using footwear. Its modern sporting form is known as French boxing.
Chassé : A straight-line kick in savate, delivered with the heel or sole to push or strike an opponent. This distinctive kick shows how savate uses the shoe as a striking surface.
Paris : The capital of France and a major European cultural and political center. Savate took shape in nineteenth-century Parisian urban life.
French Boxing Federation : The French national governing body for savate and related combat sports. It organizes competitions, ranks, and rules for modern savate in France.
Kickboxing : A family of combat sports combining punches with kicks under discipline-specific rules. Unlike many kickboxing styles, savate specifies footwear and distinct shoe-based striking surfaces.
Fouetté : A whipping circular kick in savate, usually delivered with the toe of the shoe. Its snapping trajectory contrasts with savate’s direct pushing kicks.
Charles Lecour : A nineteenth-century French boxing instructor credited with combining English boxing with savate kicks. His synthesis helped establish the modern form of French boxing.
World Savate Federation : The international organization that promotes and coordinates savate across national federations. It supports the sport’s international competition and shared regulations.
Muay Thai : A Thai combat sport using punches, kicks, elbows, and knees, with clinching in competition. Its broader set of legal weapons highlights savate’s narrower, footwear-centered kicking rules.
Revers : A savate kick that strikes with the edge or heel of the shoe in a hooking or sweeping motion. It illustrates the variety of footwear-based strikes permitted in the sport.
Michel Casseux : A Parisian instructor who helped systematize and teach savate in the early nineteenth century. His teaching contributed to savate’s emergence from street fighting as a formal discipline.
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