savate rather than muay thai

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What do you all think about Savate? Do you feel it be very beneficial, practical for the street? How hard is it on the body as opposed to Muay Thai.
 
Muay Thai is the better art for me, for MMA, and imo for street use (because of the clinch). But Savate does have it's strengths. I find myself sometimes using a chasse or pied bas in MMA sparring, but never a fouette, always a thai roundhouse.
 
savate is coo for the streets

since you got a shoe on you can kick with your foot. this means your leg is a longer target and that you can hit from a long range reducing a chance of a counter from a punch. savate was actually invented in france and was a sport used by sailors who would compete in wooden shoes. so if you wear a steel toe and use savate you can cause some serious damage in a street fight

i've been in a couple savate matches and a tourney. it's a fun sport and it helps you really foccus on speed and technique

it's kind of like slap boxing but with feet
here is a bad ass HL of it that has been posted a lot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WadTkRxeE5A


how the sport is different from MT as far as being hard on the body?

to me MT appears to be more brutal as far as the punishment you will recieve during a fight. because of the leg kick factor and the knees and elbows. MT is more violent, savate is more sport.

here is a scary savate technique. if you time it right you can probpably jack up sombody's knee. it's good to counter a round house kick

The Savate Bas Chasse Kick
http://www.onlineonair.com/savate/page1.html

also check out the Revers Lateral Bas
that kick was popular with Michael McDonald and Andy Hug
 
any good muay thai fighter would destroy a savate fighter
muay thai is the uber martial art
 
Thanks a lot everyone. I have always been a big fan of Muay Thai but am also part French. I thought it would be cool to practice something my ancestors practiced. I am going to France anyways and will probely still try to get some training in it while I'm there, just for fun.
 
cool man, i would definitely say try to get some training while over there. the more you can experience the better. i do like muay thai better overall and i think it works better, just my opinion. however, savate is cool and has benefits. take advantage of as much training as you can get, doesn't hurt to branch out every once in a while. but when it comes down to it, i'll take mt any day
 
I mix up Savate, Sanshou, Boxing, karate, and Muay Thai... We do whatever seems most effective for kickboxing and the street.
 
hesler1 said:
Thanks a lot everyone. I have always been a big fan of Muay Thai but am also part French. I thought it would be cool to practice something my ancestors practiced. I am going to France anyways and will probely still try to get some training in it while I'm there, just for fun.
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Good for you.

Learn all you can while you are there.
 
They are both very practical for self defence if you're tought by someone who knows what they're doing. For mma, you will have to modify both of them but neither is better in my opinion. Choose which one you like and go with it.
 
You can always attend a seminar held by Salem Assli in the US. He is a very influential instructor of Savate in the US.
 
I prefer the 8 points of attack in MT. But Savate is still pretty cool
 
I just don`t get savate.It just looks like two dudes kickboxing with shoes on and tight outfits.
 
I hope you aren't basing anything off that one video. The video means nothing in comparing savate and muay thai. that compares those two fighters, and on that night that guy was better. it does not mean savate is better than muay thai.
 
It also doesn't mean Muay Thai is better than Savate. I practice Muay thai currently but have gone to seminars and trained briefly in Savate. In my experience, I like the piercing stikes of the Savate toekicks and the shear power of Muay Thai kicks.
No style is better than or less than any other. All that matters is how it is plausible in the eyes of the practioner.
 
any good muay thai fighter would destroy a savate fighter
muay thai is the uber martial art
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lol Boy do I love the ignorant.
 
Halls said:
It also doesn't mean Muay Thai is better than Savate. I practice Muay thai currently but have gone to seminars and trained briefly in Savate. In my experience, I like the piercing stikes of the Savate toekicks and the shear power of Muay Thai kicks.
No style is better than or less than any other. All that matters is how it is plausible in the eyes of the practioner.
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If everyone could understand your point of view..... what would people on Sherdog fight about?

(this is a rhetorical question. No comments are needed about all the stupid things people fight about here)
 
You make an honest point. There's a reason the word "Ultimate" is in the UFC Title, it was part of a very sound marketing gimmick that Dana and them Zuffa boys don't want to let go of because it empowers their demographic into thinking that dabbling in fighting Arts will allow them to kick the asses of long-experienced practitioners of a single Art.
 
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