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hello,

savate is not appropriate for K1 for example, because they wear shoes, and kicks are very differents... There are "push kicks" on knees (chassé bas), in front kick or side kick, and using of different parts of the shoe to strike, toes to solar plexus or strike to shin...like in Jeet kune do...
if rules authorize shoes...savate is not the ultimate system...but many storys tell victory of savate on Muay thaï...Dan Inosanto told one...
Thaï boxers kick with shins because it's the harder part of the leg whitout shoes, but if we know strike with hard shoes...I learned low kick with toes (with shoes) in krav maga, and it's VERY effective...
And many champions of K1 know Savate...For example Peter Aerts. They are very few to practise only MT.
Savate is not a sport who wants to be very popular, boxers are not payed...
A lesson is not only based on competition techniques...and they don't try to be K1 fighters.
Competition is restricted with techniques, but when I practise again sometime, I learn how to very easily broke a nose, neck attacks, how to use the chair where I am sitting...But it's the techniques of the origins and I dont think it's learned out of France...even out of Paris...


It's important to know that Practitionners of savate are not payed !!
so they turn on MT, full contact or kick boxing when they are "good", so we don't see them on tournement like K1...because they became other practitionners for money.

ps : sorry for my english...