This is NOT funny! (What is high-level Savate?)
To a beginner, jumps, spins, and high kicks are high-level Savate, but really, this is just the fun stuff. Anticipating, controlling, observing, and perturbing your opponent – that is high level Savate. The rest is just funny.
‘Uncanny Prescience’: the psychology of boxing reaction time.
There’s a common misconception that boxers aim to punch people in the face. We don’t. We aim slightly off. Unless your opponent is completely stationary, you punch not to the target, but to where it will be in a moment’s time. The novice boxer who stabs uselessly at the old head position soon finds themselves…
Karate vs Savate | Interview with Aaron McLoughlin and James Southwood
If you’d like to hear to champions talk about progression, competition, respect, and mindset, here’s the Instagram live interview.
Running training for fighters and combat athletes
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…
Interview with Sensei Emmett
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.
Is Savate sparring what MMA is looking for?
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…