London Savate Coach’s Blog

Using limitations. A common way to coach a fighter is to try to ensure they can do everything – defences, advances, attacks, fitness, mindset, low, middle and high strikes. Cover every strategy, every possible opponent, every movement. This way, they are ready for anything. Whilst it seems natural as a teacher to offer this kind…

To be successful when learning to spar an athlete must master simultaneously the personal and physical aspects. Alongside every increment in technical ability, an equal gain must be made in temperament, emotional awareness or self understanding. Failing to heed this will result in technique without internal control, which is to say no technique at all….