Savate
Savate (), also known as boxe française, savate boxing, French boxing or French footfighting, is a French kickboxing combat sport that uses the hands and feet as weapons combining elements of English boxing with graceful kicking techniques.
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was featured in the
Summer Olympic Games demonstration programme in
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds ...
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A demonstration of
La canne
Canne de combat is a French combat sport. As weapon, it uses a ''canne'' or Stick-fighting, cane (a kind of walking-stick) designed for fighting. ''Canne de combat'' was standardized in the 1970s for sporting competition by Maurice Sarry. The ''c ...
was associated with an assault between Professor Prévot and the champion of France Beauduin.
See also
References
{{Sports at the Olympics
Olympics
Olympics
1924 introductions
Discontinued sports at the Summer Olympics
Men's events at the 1924 Summer Olympics