Savate

Okay, savate.

Yeah.

Savate originated in the 18th and 19th centuries among sailors and street toughs.

And these guys weren't fighting barefoot on padded mats in a gym.

They were fighting on wet, rolling ship decks or slippery cobblestones wearing heavy, hard-soled leather boots.

But the real world isn't a padded ring.

What happens if you're fighting in a parking lot and you slip on a patch of wet oil? Or what if the attacker isn't a trained martial artist but a 260-pound college linebacker who just puts his head down, eats your fastest jab, wraps his arms around your waist, and violently tackles you to the concrete?

That is the ultimate nightmare for a striker, and it is the glaring blind spot of boxing, Wing Chun, fencing, and Savate.

Wow.

And it goes on and he has all of these different qualifications in Thai boxing, French Savate, Kung Fu, Western fencing, Jeet Kune Do, which is Bruce Lee's fighting style, which they put in parentheses, scientific street fighting.

You know, it's funny that you mentioned that, though, because this was one of the movies where I think It wasn't the one where he knocked Billy Blank.

But he did get sued for injuring another actor in this film.

What's the name of it again?

Savate.

Savate.

Uh, it's a, so it's a, Savate is, is a sport, um, that is French kickboxing.

Okay.

Uh, it looks like the fighting in the movie Karate Kid.