Savate In Popular Culture
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- In the Transporter films, the main character (Jason Statham) Frank Martin’s fight style (though never defined as any style) bears a strong resemblance to savate.
- Gambit and Batroc, Marvel Comics characters who are both savateurs.
- Professor Calculus from Tintin’s comics was a savateur.
- Vorstedt in Lethal Weapon 2 was a savateur.
- In the novel Starship Troopers, one of the martial arts taught to the Mobile Infantry is savate.
- The main character in Le Pacte des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf), Grégoire de Fronsac, uses savate in the rare moments when he is seen fighting.
- In the film Jules and Jim, the two eponymous characters are seen practicing savate.
- Vega from the Street Fighter video games has a fighting style which is partially based on savate.
- Lee Chaolan from the Tekken video game series does not have a set martial art, but borrows a variety of maneuvers from other styles, and several of his moves are based on savate.
- In the film Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961), two of the characters fight using savate.
- Caroline, a British-Korean teacher in Unbalance x Unbalance, was a Savate practitioner.
- Japanese pro-wrestler Takuma Sano is known for the frequency with which he executes the rolling savate kick (or rolling solebutt), a spinning back kick to the gut, like the revers. His official shirt shows Sano in mid-kick, with the word “savate” written underneath.
- In the famous Japanese animation One Piece, Sanji, the chef of the Strawhat Pirates and his mentor “Red Leg” Zeff uses this fighting technique, but only kicks since the hands are only for cooking.
- Savate was featured in the fourth episode of The History Channel’s show Human Weapon on August 10th 2007.
- The fictional character Sherlock Holmes was said to be an expert in baritsu (a typographical error for the real martial art of Bartitsu, which incorporated savate and French/Swiss stick fighting along with boxing and jiujitsu).
- Spike Spiegel from the television series Cowboy Bebop uses Jeet Kune Do, which incorporates its kicks from Savate.
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