What is the difference between old style savate and la boxe’ franchaise savate?
I have read that Daniel Duby practices old style savate, which is different from la boxe’ franchaise style, and his style is more self-defense oriented. Well, what exactly is the difference between these two styles? Also, what is it about old style savate that makes it more self-defense oriented? Thanks in advance.
‘Chauson’ it what savate derived from. From what I got from my teacher and a few books I got in Metz, France is that there where no punches in chauson or older savate just slaps to the face. The punches weren’t added until a savateer was beaten by an English boxer. The term, “La Boxe’ Franchise” I have seen been used interchangeabley with ‘Savate’ and I have seen it refer to the ‘ring’ fighting. I keep hearing the reference ‘ring’ savate and ‘street’ savate at my salle. So there is obivious differences in the techniques. I haven’t fought in an actual Savate match yet so I don’t really know what techs are allowed and the different applications. Hope it helps some.
Savate Through the Ages
All meant in fun. Any resemblance to characters, alive or dead, is purely intentional. Enjoy!
Once, after the War Between the States, a newpaperman from New York rode out West on a sway-backed mare. After many months of travel he came to a tent by the Platte River where a mule skinner sat, whittling a piece of wood.
"Evenin'," the newspaperman tipped his bowler. "I've come to this wilderness because I heard tell there's a brave Frenchmen who lives in these parts, and I wanted to do a story on him."
The mule skinner looked up from the corner of his eye, spit a brown stream of tobacco juice, and kept on whittling. "Boy," he said, "are you ever lost."
Hitler harangued his generals, his voice rising to a fever pitch. "We will blitzkrieg the French Army! We will scatter them like leaves before a great Aryan storm! Nothing will stop us. NOTHING!"
One of the German Generals decided to temper the meeting a little with some commen sense. "Mein Furher," he said in a quiet voice, "we should not delude ourselves. The French will not roll over and die. They will fight tooth and nail for every inch of their country."
A short silence fell across the room before everyone burst into relieved, hysterical laughter. The little Bohemian Colonel himself rolled on the floor, holding his side and screaming helplessly with mirth. An hour later, when all the giggles had finally been laughed out of everyone, Hitler clapped the general on the shoulder.
"Let us go fight these courageous Frenchmen you speak of."
With that, everyone burst into uncontrollable laughter again. And that's how the invasion of France was put off for 24 hours.
The sun shone merrily as the invasion army swept through the little French coastal town. A young girl, no more than seven, and holding her mother's hand, said, "Don't look so worried, mama. Our soldiers will take care of them."
The older woman looked down at her daughter with concern and asked, "Have you been smoking hemp again with wine chasers?"
The Frenchman felt the deck of the Titanic tilt beneath his feet. He raised his face to heaven and proclaimed, "C'est la vie. Pepe LePew. Croissant and escargot forever." With those words he flung himself over the rail into the waters below, never to be heard from again.
A dour Englishman who had been standing nearby removed his cigar from his mouth and proclaimed to a friend, "Dumb ba$tard. We haven't even left the docks yet."
"A savate player who also happened to be a Frenchman was a terror in the ring. He met his opponents with fist and foot, and left them a bleeding and broken pulp on the canvas. All men fell before him, all men feared him."
The Father closed the little book from which he had been reading stories to his son. "The end," he finished.
The little boy snuggled under the bedcovers and smiled. "I like adventure stories, Daddy. Tell me another?"
The Father smiled at his son for he loved him very much. "There once was a Frenchman who was not only brave, but a great lover as well."
"Oh, Daddy," the little boy complained, "I said I wanted an adventure story, not fantasy."
One day a little boy came to his father. "Pere, are we French?"
The older man put his finger to his lips and cautioned, "Shhh."
Good thing I’m not Fench. I got to read the whole article.
ROFLMGAO!!!
what is transparent and lies in the gutter?
an american that Usama has kicked the **** out of
hii hii:D
Haw! That’s a good one, too. Fooled you, didn’t I? Thought I was gonna get mad. Well, unlike some people I don’t mind laughing at myself. I used to read National Lampoon when it was funny. Result: Anything and everything is fodder for comedy.
Hey, there is like a million jokes that can be made of my country so i wasn’t really seriously u know.. 
Except for Sweeden. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a sweedish joke. As far as I know I am swedish. The best my pollish friend could ever muster up was that I was a goddammn viking. OOoohhh that hurts.
well talk to a norwegian.. they really diss uss swedes. But in Sweden we have Norway storys and vice verca
Man, it took me WAY too long to get that joke.
But when I did I have to admit I laughed.
JWT
JWTAYLOR.. LoL it is about Somalia from the start, I just changed it into ‘america’.. guess it was
How do you break a Swedes finger? Punch him in the nose.
How many Swedes does it take to eat an armidillo? three, one to eat and two to watch for cars.
Here about the blind lesbian on vacation in Sweden? I don’t have a punch line but there has to be a joke in there.
those are taken from pollish jokes rogue. Pretty much every joke is interchangable. Like this one, "How do you wink at a (african, polish, german, french) guy? [act like you are aiming a shotgun].
Savate
Anyone here know anything about it or any links to any information about it?
French fighting art,high on kicking with arms used to block.
Seems to be a rare artform nowadays.
Your link siree.
Most Jun Fan martial arts and related have ties to savate.
I have limited knowledge, do you have specific questions?
I practice Jeet Kune Do.
Savate website
I’ve been inspired by the recent threads about not well-known MA, so I found this:savate site
There’s some good articles about savate, and old pictures of it in action. pretty cool site.
edit: There’s also articles on the french stick-fighting art of “La Canne”, and I recommend checking out the “dirty tricks of the french apache” article, there’s some cool techniques there, like the jacket-throwing technique.
YO! :mad:
look at this site, it’s cool (just trying to get it on the front page again):rolleyes: