Savate, which was first created in 1820, elaborated upon different
methods and styles of foot fighting from the various provinces of
France and combined them with openhanded defensive blows.
The first part of savate training is the warm-up and stretching, The
savateur must have strength, flexibility, balance, mobility and a sense
of space. |
Boxe Francaise-Savate challenges much of the minds resources. The savateur
must create tactical combinations and invent strategies of feints and hits. Savate is a
scientific game of voluntary loss and regaining of balance in which the body becomes
a highly controlled projectile.
Although full contact exists in savate, it is always controlled and graceful.
Savate has an aesthetic quality, which includes strictness and harmony as well as
grace and elegance.
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The head of the Boxe Francaise-Savate program at Nubreed Martial Arts Academy is
Professor Salem Assli, He is the president of the California Association of Boxe
Francaise-Savate and holds the rank of Professor Silver Glove 2nd Degree, the highest
ranked B.F. Savate practitioner in the United States. He is also a full instructor in both
Jun Fan JKD and Filipino Martial Arts with Sifu/Guro Dan Inosanto as well as a Muay Thai instructor. |