Our art is best known as an elegant but intense style of kickboxing in which the fighters wear shoes (savate being a French word for “old shoe.”) Savate originated in in France and can be traced back to the early 1800’s.Modern savate includes the growing international kickboxing sport (boxe-française savate,) a self-defense curriculum (savate défense,) and two weapons arts (“la canne” and “le baton”).
In Canada, savate is currently practiced in Montreal and Toronto, with a few lonely savateurs holding the fort in Halifax and Calgary.
National savate federations exist in 37 other countries and are part of the International Savate Federation/Federation Internationale de Savate (FIS.)
I would like to take up savate, but instructors in Western Canada are few and far between. Can you provide contact information for any of the savateurs in Calgary? Thanks.
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