Muay Thai Training: Using Savate to improve Muay Thai!
VIDEO: David Hergault – Muay Thai (red trunks) VS Francois Pennacchio – Savate (blue trunks) is below
I wrote a few weeks ago, I am recently back to Muay Thai training after a bit of an absence. So far, so good. Cardio is still terrible of course, but the technique is all working nicely, and I’m thoroughly enjoying being back in the gym. My time away from Muay Thai got me thinking about other striking arts and how they work together, which means I must make a confession here:
I cheated on Muay Thai.
I felt guilty about it. I’ve always been a bit of a Muay Thai snob, feeling like this is clearly the best overall striking style, and somewhat looking down on other arts with their silly spins and emphasis on forms. Muay Thai has always seemed the most pure, the most logical – the one that best works in an actual fighting situation. So it was with some trepidation that during my time away from my Muay Thai gym, I dabbled in a few classes in savate.
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Muay Thai
Muay Thai is a combat sport of Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This physical and mental discipline which includes combat on shins is known as "the art of eight limbs" because it is characterized by the combined use of fists, elbows, knees, shins, being associated with a good physical preparation that makes a full-contact fighter very efficient. Muay Thai became widespread internationally in the twentieth century, when practitioners defeated notable practitioners of other martial arts.
