I still don’t know why the French hate us Brits so much.
Do you feel ashamed that you got your arses kicked in 2 World Wars, while we stood tall like the Gods we are?
P.S: Crimson, Thanks for the savate research BTW. A big “Merci” is in order.
kristoffer: dunno why, but that comment seems to have jabbed a stick up your pooper. i AM about ¼ french, and i was getting my tkd-stylin’ butt kicked by savate students in tourneys long before i hit puberty. besides, i have nothing against the french. it’s those lousy québecers that get me all riled up. 
honestly, it was all in good jest. i’m mostly greek, and you wouldn’t believe the backdoor bandit comments i catch for that.
and fat azzed? hm. my bum may be a little soft, but 16 percent body fat can’t be all that bad.
A great big LOL
to Kung Fu guy for the girly kick fight comment. I laughed for a half hour on that one.
Isn’t your friend’s size insignificant in Savate? From what I’ve been told, Savate is about pin point strikes. Goodness knows, you don’t need a ton of power for that. It would seem like all that weight would slow him down.
My friend who used to spar with them said that Savate fighters are totally susceptible (sp) to Thai kicks to the thigh. He dropped one of them with one shot. I guess he didn’t expect a kick down there.
And yes, the French are wussies. Tough sh!t. They needed to be bailed out of THREE wars - WWI, WWII, Vietnam (read your history. Didn’t know that, did you?) And when they finally showed some balls, they sent commandos to blow up the Rainbow Warrior, which is owned (er, WAS) by friggin Greenpeace? Nice - protect the French population from a bunch of dangerous tree huggers…
tree huggers ARE pretty f*ckin annoyin tho innit
Don’t get me wrong, tree huggers suck. But they don’t need to be blown out of the water.
Less trees! More fences!
How do you say that in French?
France was just bit(hing about our “war on terrorism”. Looks like we might have to start flying the long way over to the middle east again.
No comments either way … just wanted to share.
african tiger,
i think savate actually features the low leg kick, very similar to muay thai. so i doubt they’re particularly susceptible to it. but hell, muay thai guys still fall for it.
i think it’s… fouette bas. crimson phoenix. a little help?
delicate sound,
i didn’t know you were a brit. for some reason, i thought you were australian.
i’ve learned my new thing for the day. now i’m done.
stuart b.
ap - learn two new things in the same day, and you can retire.
either that or my head would collapse in on itself.
Well, indeed Apoweyn, it’s fouetté bas!!! Actually it’s not the only kick to the thigh you can do (the thigh is the target to any kick in savate)…I didn’t know we were particularly susceptible to it…the thai boxer I have fought indeed gave me more problems with their low kicks than their middle or high ones, but still it wasn’t the terrific stuff that passed everytime…if you really do it savate’s way, then by raising the leg to evade the kick you chamber the counter kick…it’s quite efficient even if it’s not that easy to pull out…
Delicate, no prob mate, dun hesitate to ask if you think I can help (although Apo served a lot of links too)
As for the comments on France…hmmmm…say whatever you want, but just the cathedral in Paris is 4 times older than the US…if you measure a country’s greatness by how they perform during war, fine, I have other standards…and if you’re all sooooooo keen on history, then it’s convenient because yours barely reaches back 300 years old…thank Lafayette guys…
our history dates back thousands of years (native americans, etc.). we’ve only been imperalistic and set on world domination for the last few hundred.
Yah…native americans…uuhhhh…ask them if they are part of the history of the US, I guess they’ll share a whole different POV…you just can’t say that, their culture was lost and their wisdom raped and slain when european immigrants robbed and killed them an imposed theirs…we always hear about the yellow peril, but no one else than the white man killed so many people…
On a lighter note, since I do not want to enter a heated debate where I’d say “how did you thank them for thanksgiving”, and since I want to keep it MA related, I’d say that indeed savate is lighter and tends to rely more on pin-pointing, but do not think that it has no power…savate is as powerful as kick boxing, no less…it’s just that the mechanics are different…
And yeah, I agree, the traditionnal savat uniform is just plain gay and you can taunt me endlessly about it I’ll just have to agree
crimson:
actually, all i hear about is how evil the white man is. i graduated from and now work at one of the most tree-huggingly retarded universities on the western united states.
NOTE: berkeley is tree-huggingly good and proper. eugene? it gets by. my school? the typical protesters here are just plain morons who go from protest to protest – akin to barhopping on a saturday night.
this all reminds me of my favorite joke:
why’d the white man cross the road?
to exploit the land and its people.
anyhoo, i don’t think anyone who’s fought a decent savate player can argue that the bastages are quick and dangerous. like i said earlier, my butt’s met mat several times during tourney matches with savate players.