It's kind of funny to think that it took the early inventors of karate witnessing the French military do hand to hand combat exercises all the way across the world in the Pacific, and then marines being stationed on Okinawa learning Shotokan and coming home bringing the tradition of karate back with them, plus over two decades of karate being in the United States to finally, with the introduction of full contact kickboxing rules for Americans to finally come up with Savate without shoes. They could have just learned it from the French soldiers fighting alongside the revolutionaries against the British crown during the war of independence, and combined it with English boxing here in like 1790, but instead we waited 170 years to have no shoe Savate.
That is true, but at least in terms of stance and style, Savate only allows kicking with the shoe, so low kicks in savate are a bit different than low kicks in K1 or MT, and so the stances at least in this fight end up looking more like Savate.
@@mouseboxersclassickickboxing Can you get a hold of Joe Lewis's first reign of kickboxing matches? There's only two on RU-vid. The rest of His matches are comeback Lewis many years later.
