Running training for fighters is good base fitness, it improves motivation, mood, and has physiological benefits for combat sports. Running can be your off-season fitness, coronavirus lockdown exercise, or for use in fight camp. But what runs, times and distances should you be doing to benefit your fighting? Types of fighter fitness runs. Long slow…
New Interview! Getting Savate more widely noticed online. Here I talk about Savate, my own journey, sparring, the competition mindset, and a host of other things that Sensei Emmett asked me when I was invited as a guest onto his channel.
Max Holloway said he did not spar for UFC Fight Island 7 against Calvin Kattar in order to limit brain damage and punishment. The method of sparring in Savate (boxing, kickboxing) known as Assaut – sans puissance – no force/power sparring may be a solution to MMA sparring. It teaches timing, control, accuracy, angles, all…
Is Savate a Martial Art? Savate is a codified system of fighting; it has a self-defence association; it requires mind-body-spirit application. But different people will arrive at different answers when posed the question: is Savate a martial art?
If asked for the virtue most associated with boxing, I guess most people would choose courage. For me, it is temperance.
https://youtu.be/D825cdcXKpoVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Savate Lesson: where to put your feet? (Footwork fundamentals). (https://youtu.be/D825cdcXKpo) Watch full lesson (online members).
How do you start learning a combat sport such as Savate during the covid crisis if you cannot train in a group? To begin training Savate online, all you need is some safe space (indoors or outdoors), internet access, a few fitness pointers, and some technical coaching. We have the last two sorted if you…
