Nice, they say it’s been having a revival lately. I hope that all practitioners are required to wear a stylish hat and a handlebar mustache.
It’s fun that one of the influences is Savate. That’s another fun martial art. The theory is that hitting someone with a closed fist was seen as attacking with a deadly weapon in France, so the sailors (who liked to brawl) developed a fighting technique using kicks and open-handed slaps.
Nice, they say it’s been having a revival lately. I hope that all practitioners are required to wear a stylish hat and a handlebar mustache.
It’s fun that one of the influences is Savate. That’s another fun martial art. The theory is that hitting someone with a closed fist was seen as attacking with a deadly weapon in France, so the sailors (who liked to brawl) developed a fighting technique using kicks and open-handed slaps.