Kickboxing
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Kickboxing is an umbrella term for different styles of full-contact hybrid boxing type, combat sports, and martial arts based on punching and kicking. Kickboxing originated in various times in history
A kickboxing match
Oriental rules kickboxing
A Full contact match
Kickboxing training in Ebisu, Tokyo.
Savate
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Savate, also known as French boxing or French foot fighting, is a French hybrid martial art and full-contact combat sport that combines principles of western boxing with a wide variety of kicking tech
Kickboxing
…general fitness, or for competition. Some styles of kickboxing include: full contact karate, Muay Thai, Japanese kickboxing, Lethwei, Sanda, and Savate. Although since the dawn of humanity people have faced each other in hand-to-hand combat, the first documentation on the use of kicking and punching…
Seminario Internacional Savate Cuba 2008
Illustration from 1847 of French sailors practicing savate on a ship.
Savate illustration from the 19th century, showing a kick similar to a rabo de arraia in capoeira.
French boxing "tireurs" in 1900