Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Savate or better Savate - Boxe Française is a modern combat sport but in the 19th cent. it was more:
it was the fighting art of the gangs of Paris the famous Apache. It was also a combat sport and a way for physical education, Soldiers of the French army trained it and it became a self defense method for the average man in the early 20th cent. to fight back on the street.
Defense de la rue by Jean Renaud, How to defend yourself by George Dubois and the art of self defense in the street or 100 ways to defend yourself in the street by Emil Andre are the books published at that time to bring self defence methods to the people.
This movement is like the sister art of Bartitsu in London. It contains also the use of the walking cane or knife and the popular Jiu Jitsu. If you call Bartitsu the first mixed martial art, the "defence in the street" is also an MMA.
For the French this was the best way to fight in the streets!
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If you want to join us, Mispeldorn is located in Aachen Germany
We are one of the finest clubs for smallsword and sabre if you look for a different kind of weapon in HEMA. Maybe you are interested to join our study group for cane, staff and Savate or just come for a visit!
#hema #martialarts #selfdefense #historicalfencing #history
Thanks to @LondonSavate youtube.com/shorts/Ni9SdMhDSm0
and thanks to @FFSbfDA youtube.com/watch?v=SaPDfG-BoCo
for their video footage!
Savate or better Savate - Boxe Française is a modern combat sport but in the 19th cent. it was more:
it was the fighting art of the gangs of Paris the famous Apache. It was also a combat sport and a way for physical education, Soldiers of the French army trained it and it became a self defense method for the average man in the early 20th cent. to fight back on the street.
Defense de la rue by Jean Renaud, How to defend yourself by George Dubois and the art of self defense in the street or 100 ways to defend yourself in the street by Emil Andre are the books published at that time to bring self defence methods to the people.
This movement is like the sister art of Bartitsu in London. It contains also the use of the walking cane or knife and the popular Jiu Jitsu. If you call Bartitsu the first mixed martial art, the "defence in the street" is also an MMA.
For the French this was the best way to fight in the streets!
See some of our books and translations here:
epubli.de/shop/autor/Oliver-Janseps/30604
lulu.com/spotlight/oliverjanseps
Or support us on Patreon
patreon.com/Fencyfriends
And get our shirts on spreadshirt
fencyfriends.myspreadshop.de
If you want to join us, Mispeldorn is located in Aachen Germany
We are one of the finest clubs for smallsword and sabre if you look for a different kind of weapon in HEMA. Maybe you are interested to join our study group for cane, staff and Savate or just come for a visit!
#hema #martialarts #selfdefense #historicalfencing #history
Thanks to @LondonSavate youtube.com/shorts/Ni9SdMhDSm0
and thanks to @FFSbfDA youtube.com/watch?v=SaPDfG-BoCo
for their video footage!
