Pacific Coast Savate
The Pacific Coast Savate
club trains in the system of savate known as Danse de Rue Savate. We provide ongoing training with weekly
classed, weekend seminars, and women’s self defense classes.
Danse de Rue Savate is a
fighting system which is a melding of disciplines from western pugilism that
have been practiced by the Buitron family for more than five generations. Danse
de Rue Savate combines traditional disciplines of Savate, the Basque fighting
art Zipota and the Saca Tripas knife fighting methods of Texas
and Mexico.
The core of the system is
traditional Savate which dates back to the mid 1500s. It is a blending of the
proven fighting techniques of Europe including
boxing, chausson, Lutte Parissienne, Canne de Combat, Baton and Panache. It evolved from the fighting traditions of
the British, Castilian, Catalan, Basque, Bretagne
and the Flemish. With hundreds of years
of armed conflict between many cultures, Savate is the consolidation of vast combative influences which has been practiced by thugs, sailors, armies and nobles.
Danse De Rue Savate, the
Dance of the Street, is named after the question often asked to start a fight –
do you what to dance? It is aristocratic
in style with back alley brutality. Savate
was chosen over zipota for the guild by a panel of Professors including Isidro
Chapa, Jonathan Ayers, Robert Paturel, Jean-Paul Viviani, Peirre Change, Dr.
Paul R. Buitron, Paul-Raymond Buitron III, Andre Germe, Sifu Keith See and
Dominick Dacklue. The International Guild of Danse de Rue Savate was formed on
July 17 1994 and has been growing under guidance of the Technical Director
Professeur Paul-Raymond Buitron III.
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