Fred Royers - Netherland

Fred Royers (ex WKA head) and Eurosport journalist (martial arts).
A shot from one of their epic battles, guess who these two Savatuers are? Frenchman Robert Paturel(left) and Dutch legend Fred Royers (right). Paturel was a Savate legend while Fred Royer was one of Hollands true pioneers of combat sports.

10th June 1983 WAKO fight.




5th december 1985 WAKO fight.

Savate tournament in a palette of Martial arts in Italy

http://www.beautyefitnesscenter.com/kick-boxing.html

School "Giovanni Pascoli", Via Salerno, Ceglie M.ca ( BR )
Responsible: M° Pietro Leo

WKA and IAKSA in Rimini 2008

Before WAKO - FIKB national championship kickboxing 2008 in Rimini - there was also WKA + IAKSA kickboxing championship on 20th April 2008. Sincronicity of kickboxing events in Italy is amazing. Different organisation decides for the same places in a very similar period of a year.





President FKBI (Federation Italia of Kickboxing)- (don't change with FIKB (WAKO)) is Dr. Andrea Albertin who is also president of Sport Federation of Venice (Veneto) region.



http://www.asiveneto.it/



President Walter Meneghini of GOJU ITALIA named also AGKAI (American GojuRyu Karate Italia) with disciplines - karate, kickboxing and ju-jitsu http://www.agkaiitalia.it/ is also a vice-president of FKBI.

FKBI on a national Italian level represents two international Sports federations:
World kickboxing and Karate Association
and
World karate Association

link: http://www.worldkickboxingassociation.com/

Assaut Italian savate championships 2008, Rimini

European tradition&history in martial arts

Many elements from ballet art came to savate. The same names of fouette for example, but not the same technique. How to promote savate sport for women and girls?

Ida Kovacevic - Croatia SAVATE

Presenting very good fighter from Croatia - Ida Kovacevic from Varazdin.

Chung Ju 8th World Martial Arts Festival 2008

A Savate team of 3 athletes from FRANCE is taking part in the city of Chung Ju, South Korea - World Martial Arts Festival which will be held from 2nd to 8th of October 2008.
http://www.cj100.net/English/festival/wmaf.asp?tcode=4

2007 event:

http://martialarts.or.kr/2007/bod/index_true_en.asp?pageNum=1



2008 event: Do I have a feeling that savate is hiding?

Kamel CHOUAREF on a heel

Excellent fighter with a smaller mistake in doing and teaching kicks. At every kick you should step up on your fingers (like ballet dancer). Probably Kamel was in his fights fast enough to escape fast chasse kicks in his supporting leg when he transfered all bodies weight on his heel. His combinations are brilliant but his execution of leg techniques are only by my opinion not so excellent. Many fighters with larger foot numbers tackle with the same difficult tasks.

http://www.kamelchouaref.com/

Finals ESPOIR 2008 - combat

Final fight man - espoir 2008 in Bourg en Bresse.

In Disneyland also savate looks peaceful

Savate Light Heavy/Super Heavy Weight Division final for 40 and above at the Disney Martial Arts Festival 2007.

Savate forme - aerobics

Seminar of savate forme 2008 in Crep de Talence.

WOMMA and WUMA

World Olympus games 2008, Erice, Trapani, Italy 29/30 November.



http://www.womaa.it/FNK.htm

WOMAA (World Organization Martial Arts Athletes), United States.http://www.womaa1.com/womaa.html
Italy:

Gino Vitrano
President
WOMAA - Italia

WUMA (World United Martial Arts), England. http://www.wuma.com/

Biagio Vitrano
President of WUMA
Italy

OSATE LA SAVATE - Savate France vs. Italy in Florence, Italy

23th November 2008 - just one day after INTERNATIONAL Gala in Milano there will be gala France vs. Italy in Florence (Firenze). FIKB organisation - Giorgio Alì and Luca Della Rosa.

Savate matches:
1. Won Adriano Fabbris (accademia europea Milano) vs. Francesco Condom (team Ali Genova)
2. Won Marco Liguori (fight club Firenze) vs. Nicola Isola (team Ali Genova)
3. Equality Stefano Zucchetti (accademia europea Milano) vs. Jacopo Volta (team Ali Genova)
4. Won Davide Fravega (team Ali Genova) vs. Andrea Zucchetti accademia europea Milano
5. Won Andrea Bindi (martial project Pesaro) vs. Alessandro Nervi (team Ali Genova)
6. Won Aminta Ariano (accademia europea Milano) vs. Laura Girardi (team Ali Genova)
7. Won Adriano Fabbris (accademia europea Milano) vs. Francesco Foglino (team Ali Genova)
8. Won Andrea Bindi (martial project Pesaro) vs. Alberto Maggioni (team Ali Genova)



















Andrea Bindi in fight:

IAKSA PRO

Some kickboxing clubs in Italy part of FIKB and of course also WAKO still promote IAKSA. And this is weird because officialy IAKSA and WAKO merged. Story reminds us of neverending merging of ITF and WTF taekwondo and many ITF organisations.
And after all we got also IAKSA PRO. WAKO PRO was not enough.

http://www.kickboxing.it/settorepro.html

ISKA WORLD CUP - SIDNEY - 17 October, Australia

WTKA - World Traditional Karate Association

Source: http://kickboxingitalia.blogspot.com/

New edition of WTKA Open World Championships & Marathon of Martial Arts was held in Marina di Carrara from 20th to 26th October 2008.
With 5000 competitors coming from 78 countries from all 5 continents:

JAPAN, ITALY, GEORGIA, ENGLAND, IRELAND, BELGIUM, MACEDONIA, USA, SPAIN, HOLLAND, BRASIL, MEXICO, GERMANY, SWEDEN, FINLAND, DENMARK, ARMENIA, FRANCE, SCOTLAND, SOUTH AFRICA, CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA, ISRAEL, CHILE, POLAND, SWITZERLAND, KOSOVO, BANGLADESH, ROMANIA, CANADA, CATALONIA, SLOVENIA, MOLDAVIA, SENEGAL, CAMEROON, MAURITIUS, IRAN, PALESTINE, EMIRATES, SINGAPORE, AFGHANISTAN, AUSTRALIA, GREECE, HUNGARY, RUSSIA, EGYPT, ALBANIA, DOMINICANA REPUBLIC, UZBEKISTAN, KAZAKISTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, PERU, NEW ZEALAND, COLOMBIA, BERMUDA, ARGENTINA, CAMERUN, NIGERIA, ECUADOR, PHILIPPINE, JORDAN, INDIA, LITUANIA, PAKISTAN, PORTUGAL, SRI LANKA, VENEZUELA, CROATIA, AUSTRIA, BULGARIA, TURKEY, SERBIA, MONTENEGRO, HAWAII, PANAMA, GIAMAICA, NICARAGUA, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, MALAYSIA, ISLE OF MAN.

The Tournament was Opened to all Federations, Clubs and Organizations, Associations with an unlimited number of competitors without any restriction (only for WAKO kickboxing members forbidden).
The Tournament was held in Italy Marina di Carrara the beautiful location of last year.
Competitions started officially Wednesday 22nd October after the Opening Ceremony.
The Opening Ceremony was more great than the last years.
The Sport Halls is “Carrarafiere” complex: www.carrarafiere.com the great and innovative location of last year.
But this year was bigger competition area: 14.000 square metres, Because of 5000 competitors from any part of the world.

Carrarafiere is a great innovative building with more than 30.000 cover square metres. It is famous all around the world thanks to its services and events that are organized inside.
Marina di Carrara is located in Tuscany in the middle between Sea and Alpi Apuane mountains.

WWW.WTKAINTERNATIONAL.COM

Mr. Michal Frabsa in WAKO and out of ISKA

Czech kickboxing: http://www.csfu.cz/iska/english

Mr. Michal Frabsa, as vice-president of Czech Fullcontact Union (a Federation which is officially recognized by its NOC and Ministry of Youth and Sports, has signed an agreement to support only WAKO in the future. Through the agreement he has signed in the name of Czech Full Contact Union, from now on his federation will only support and participate in WAKO Championships.
Mr. Frabsa was the promoter of the last ISKA World Championship held in Prague. WAKO could not stand such a situation any longer and he was obliged to make a choice. What he did.
Mr. Frabsa will also immediately resign from his positions as vice-president of IAKSA and member of the Organizing Committee of WPKA.
WAKO are looking forward to better cooperation with the federation and hope to develop kickboxing in Czech Republic. From next year the Czech Open will be a WAKO event and it will be included in WAKO schedule.

New opportunity for SAVATE?

Geer-Mahic-Kawulski

One of the main initiatives could be cooperation between great European representatives on new common projects that would satisfy everyone, especially the large proportion of the MMA and Thai boxing fan base all around Europe.
They say a picture can tell a thousand words and when one photo is taken of Andy Geer – a former president of the Cage Rage organization, Zlatko Mahic – owner of the WFC organization, and Maciej Kawulski – owner of the KSW organization all together, after spending time with each other, then we now that something’s up!
If this “trinity” could unite their fighters, their ascendancy, media and sponsors, they would, no doubt, become the strongest European fighting organization, which could easily equate itself with American and Japanese fighting associations.
They already talk about MMA reality show, where 16 fighters from neighbour countries will live, and fight together somewhere on the coast of Adriatic sea.
TV companies from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Monte Negro and Hungary already showed their interes.

Chauss fight - 2008 Marseille

On Friday 24th October, at the Salle Vallier, Marseilles, an 8-man tournament and the first world-wide belt of Chauss’Fight were contested.

Enoch Effah (France) was awarded the world-wide belt. The heavyweight world savate champion of 2005 and 2007 won on points against Michele Cianelli (Switzerland), the European full contact champion.

Mohamed Diaby won the tournament brilliantly, showing his extraordinary experience and technique. Diaby was champion of France and vice champion of the world in savate in 2007. All of his victories during the tournament were on points. In the quarter finals, he beat Nicolas Aicardi. Innocent Widens was dispatched in the semifinals. To secure the victory, he beat Michaël Lallemand, kickboxing champion of Europe 2005 and Thai boxing champion of France 2004.

The event will be broadcast on the French TV channel SPORT + in late November.

Other results:
- Jacqueline Beroud beat Myriam El Abraoui, by a points majority
- Yves Reynaud beat Nicolas Atmani on points
- Francis Tavares beat Fréderic Gargani on points

Tournament ¼ finals:
Widens Innocent beat Mourad Elbahri by hors combat in the 3rd round
Mohamed Diaby beat Nicolas Aicardi on points
Mickael Lallemand beat Bega Shqiprim on points
Laurent Debono beat Lionel Cali by hors combat in the 3rd round

Tournament ½ finals:
Mohamed Diaby beat Widens Innocent on points
Mickael Lallemand beat Laurent Debono by hors combat in the 1st round

Canne de combat world championship 2008

2nd World Championships - Canne de Combat Hungary vs. Madagaskar: