Can I get my Savate to work under stress? | Savate Fight Camp #5

A few more methods for integrating your training. This episode includes my tactical thinking, High Intensity Interval Training, and looking ahead to sparring.
Part of my training vlog as I return to the ring in Austria on 07 October 2023.
00:00 Welcome back
00:04 Tatical thinking
02:08 Stress testing
03:01 HIIT
02:50 Part II: How to improve training solo.
04:44 Next time...
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[@vercingetorixwulf9298]

I got exhausted just watching! Your dedication will pay off .....

[@ArunSharma-ek9tl]

Thank you, there's a lot of gold nuggets you give.

[@LondonSavate]

Glad they helped and glad you could find them!

[@azesavatehasanaliyev]

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[@JohnJohnson-pq4qz]

Very helpful and interesting as usual. Hey James, I have another couple questions that may be a little off topic again, but seeing you working out motivates me and I want to try and organize and structure some of the great information you have been sharing, In a clear way that makes sense to me. Here goes... Would you characterize the Fouette Bas (low lead roundhouse) as the kicking equivalent of the jab? And based on the idea of "longest weapon to closest target"? If so, then we should be learning this kick first and structuring our first combinations around it? (in the sparring/application context)? This seems pretty clear from the way you and others teach, but I want to make sure I understand the tactics correctly and am not reading things into it from other systems. Continuing alone this line of reasoning, with a little more sophistication, that I think I understood from the writings of some of the old masters, that we could divide this "kick as jab like" into an "offensive" action which would be the fouette bas and a more defensive action, which would be the lead chasse bas?

[@LondonSavate]

You must have some kind of future-seeing device. I think the equivalent of jab would be chassé latéral bas, for it shares with the jab the ability to stop an opponent advancing, that is to manage range. The fouetté cannot do this and because we must adhere to a strict no-shins rule it is only usable with lots of footwork, which is what I like to do. I teach starting combinations off this chassé as it will stop an opponent, literally, allowing you the right range to do other things, just like a jab is a range finder. Get good with that kick and everything else follows. And watch today's video for a few other thoughts on it and a link to my chassé video.
PS "longest weapon" would in point of fact be a right leg fouetté or revers latéral - but it is inappropriate to lead with that habitually, so the wording of the JKD mantra doesn't quite get us there in this case

[@JohnJohnson-pq4qz]

@@LondonSavate interesting thanks. But from what I see, would you not say that the fouette bas -lead- is by far the most common kick thrown? (it seems that way but im not systematically counting), so its the 'probing' kick (another jab fuction)?

[@LondonSavate]

@@JohnJohnson-pq4qz exactly, you've hit the nail on the head. 'Jab' is probably best defined as the 'easiest strike to throw', if by ease we mean costing least energy and defensive disorganisation. This choice would like vary from fighter to fighter, and in Combat or Assaut - more chassé in Assaut, fouetté in Combat, I would guess. But fighters might find ti useful to think of their 'jab' as the probing, range-finding strike and select a weapon that they can put to this service.

[@JohnJohnson-pq4qz]

@@LondonSavate I appreciate the replies James, it helps a lot. I am trying to get a more detailed training order kind of "structure" to go along with the general Glove Theme outline.