8 ideas for using Décalage in Savate (from a World Champion)

Make your footwork smoother, more efficient, effective, and sneakier stepping offline with these 8 tips.
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[@miguelangelgaribayresendiz5959]

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[@azesavatehasanaliyev]

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[@colonelburton331]

Hello coach. I've got a few questions about Savate. Never saw fighters use low kick in full power. It's because low kick strikes with fragile instep of the foot instead of conditioned shin? Or Savate shoe can absorb the damage? And why no one tryes to block the low kick with raising the lead leg? Is it forbidden?

[@LondonSavate]

In Savate Combat kicking to the legs full power with the boot happens all the time. It would be illegal to 'check' the kick by raising your leg - not permitted in Savate rules.

[@JohnJohnson-pq4qz]

When we step out to our right, our left leg passes behind for a 'traditional' Debordement -which also changes our lead. If we step the same way to our right (with our right leg) , but bring the left leg in front of us (that keeps us in a left lead but closer to the opponent)- in the way that we set up a true right "cross" punch in English boxing -Have we still performed a 'debordment' or is it considered a different movement?

[@LondonSavate]

Débordement (which will be my next video) requires complete escape of the axis first. So Stepping to your right for débordement, there is no obligation to change lead. In fact I like to teach my students not to change in order to keep structure and to learn the more difficult way first, so they can use either later.
Sticking with décalage, if you step right, you do not completely esacpe the axis, but only partially (like in the early part of the current video). You can change lead or not depending on the distance, but as above, I would teach maintenance of lead first