Replying with Confidence
Now let’s build up your defensive Savate game with protection, parades, escapes, and blocks. Don’t get touched and touch in reply.
| Course | Sorting your defences out |
| Description | Set of lessons & workouts designed to make you feel fitter and more comfortable when defending. |
| Lessons | 5 |
| Video | 1h25m |
Introduction
| Lesson | Title | Content | Log | Minutes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | No Wobbles: Defensive Core Workout | Can you keep steady when under attack? 20 minute workout targeting torso stability when under pressure or perturbation. Available on … | To Do | 21 | |
 | Forearms, Elbows and Palms: working with your defensive tools | Feel more confident in your defensive fortress with this full-length 38min technical class. Available on London Savate World Academy Join … | To Do | 39 | |
 | 20 minutes of defensive shadowboxing chains | A light workout to go over technique and enjoy chaining together attacks and defences. Available on London Savate World Academy … | To Do | 19 | |
 | 15min Organised Defence Workout | Short, sharp workout of shadowboxing and explosive exercises designed to improve your ability to maintain defensive structure. Available on London … | To Do | 16 | |
 | How to defend and reply to Fouetté | How to avoid getting touched > developing Green Glove skills >defending and replying to fouetté This month you are welcomed … | To Do | 5 |
| Course | Different Ways of Blocking and Escaping |
| Description | Selected lessons to guide you through the different blocks, parades, escapes, and defences. |
| Lessons | 9 |
| Video | 6h40m |
| Title | Log | Minutes | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Escapes | To Do | 39 | 39 mins | Blue: Punch/Kick + Escape | Green: Escape + Punch/Kick | Blue + Green: Escapes in Combinations | … | |
| Unpredictability | To Do | 47 | Technique 47 mins | Unpredictable Movement x 3 rounds | Strikes x 3 rounds | Multiple height kicks x 3 … | |
| Parade Chassée | To Do | 48 | Technique 48 mins | Warm-up + kick practice | Parade chassée sur poing | Parade chassée sur fouetté médian | … | |
| In-Line Escapes | To Do | 43 | Technique 43 mins | Warm-up | Move both feet | Move front foot | Move rear foot | Fitness and … | |
| Chassé d’Arrêt | To Do | 48 | Technique 48 mins | Warm-up | Chassé frontal | Chassé lateral | Chassé bas | Fitness and revision | Cooldown … | |
| Head Movement | To Do | 47 | Aims To introduce some head movement fundamentals and explore how to use them in Savate attacks and counterattacks. Contents Warm-up. … | |
| Slipping Punches | To Do | 42 | Aims To add a few slips into our boxing escapes; to use slips in Blue, Green, and Red Glove contexts. … | |
| Parade bloquée | To Do | 44 | Aims To get more familiar with the form and uses of parade bloquée (block) Contents Warm-up. Blue Green. Red. Freestyle. … | |
| Evading Low Kicks | To Do | 38 | Keep your legs away from incoming strikes with these 3 escapes plus bonus footwork fitness round. Available on London Savate … | |
| Blocking and Escaping feedback | Time to show off all your good defensive moves This content is available with London Savate World Academy | Online … |
| Course | Defensive Cycles |
| Description | Savate lessons guiding you through blending attacks with defences and back again. |
| Lessons | 6 |
| Video | 4h |
| Lesson | Title | Log | Minutes | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1s and 3s | To Do | 45 | Technique 45 mins | Warm-up | Jab setups | Fouetté setups | Revers setups | Revision and fitness | Cooldown … | |
 | Counterattack the Coach | To Do | 48 | 48 min. Learn some effective Savate counterattacks and test your reactions and read an opponent in this video. This content … | |
 | Tick-Tock | To Do | 30 | Tick-tock is an excellent game in Savate – strike/defend/strike/defend etc – which teaches a useful way to chain movements together. … | |
 | Uppercut Counters | To Do | 42 | Uppercuts are usually too close-range for Savate, but they make great surprise counters. In this class, we train 3 methods … | |
 | 6 Ripostes and Counters | To Do | 33 | Join me for 6 replies and counters to attacks to all heights – including a reaction round test at the … | |
 | Attack Defend Cycles | To Do | 41 | Every attack is rightly followed by a defence, which is then followed by another attack, and so on to the … | |
 | Defensive cycle feedback | Let’s see if you can show your defensive organisation and flow. This content is available with London Savate World Academy … |
| Course | Smooth Spins |
| Description | Each spin in turn. 3 technical breakdown sessions for Savate turning kicks |
| Lessons | 3 |
| Video | 1h15m |
| Lesson | Title | Log | Minutes | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Smooth Spinning Revers | To Do | 28 | The revers tournant is a great way to score long range points in style. Learn how to turn properly and … | |
 | Smooth Spinning Chassé | To Do | 28 | Chassé tournant is a difficult kick for your opponent to deal; with. Learn how to balance and align the kick … | |
 | Smooth Spinning Fouetté | To Do | 22 | Spinning fouetté can be done in two distinct ways. Let’s break them down and have some fun in this class. … | |
| Spinning kick feedback | Can you show off some smooth spins? This content is available with London Savate World Academy | Online training or … |
| Course | Winning Combinations |
| Description | Exciting combinations that work, with some drawn from actual Savate fights I've had. |
| Lessons | 4 |
| Video | 2h40m |
| Lesson | Title | Content | Log | Minutes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Interactive Savate Pad Rounds | This video will improve your reactions and help adjust to fighting rhythm; it should feel like a 1-to-1 session between … | To Do | 37 | |
 | Using all parts of the shoe | Technical class in which we go through all the different parts of the shoe that can be used as a … | To Do | 40 | |
 | Scoring Combination: Bottom of the ‘Sea’ | 39 minutes. Learn a scoring combination that works from distance and watch it in action in a Savate ring. A … | To Do | 39 | |
 | Balayage Combination ‘Stirring the Coffee’ | 40 minute lesson. Learn an effective Savate combination taken from a real fight. Includes movement training, a punching combination, and … | To Do | 40 |
| Course | Green Glove Preparation |
| Description | A short series of training sessions targeting key Green Glove skills on your own. |
| Lessons | 2 |
| Video | 1h30m |
| Title | Log | Minutes | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Glove Syllabus | World Academy Green Glove Syllabus This content is available with London Savate World Academy | Online training or Monthly Training … | |||
| Green Glove Combinations | To Do | 45 | Aims To train each of the GB syllabus Green Glove combinations and to create a resource to return to for … | |
| Green Glove Training Session | To Do | 43 | Technique 43 mins | Green Glove principles | Muscle relaxation | Warm-up | Simple techniques | Combinations | Assaut | … |
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