Savate training: Lesson 6 - Fouetté bas (lower level fouetté kick)

We are now learning the second savate kick called fouetté. To be precise we start from the low level fouette called fouetté bas. Fouetté can be kicked to three levels: low (feet), medium (chest/stomach) and high (head). We start from the fouetté bas which is the low level fouetté kick because it's the easiest fouetté kick to learn.

All fouetté kicks to three levels are explained and presented in the video below:



Fouetté bas and median are not usually very difficult to learn but they need some training. If you start to train them you must remember two common mistakes beginners very often make:

• Don't forget to cover you face. When you concentrate on kicking it's easy to forget that you hands and gloves should stay where they are in the basic boxing stance. They should cover your face and not go around to keep your balance and open your face for potential punches or kicks.
• Keeping the balance when kicking and after kick. Getting back to balanced basic boxing stance immediately after the fouetté kick is usually the most difficult part for beginners. They get their leg up and kick pretty ok but after the kick their balance is so shaky that they are open for opponents counter attack. Please pay attention to your balance when you practice fouetté.