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Chasse For
Defense or Offense
By Professeur Paul-Raymond Buitron III
The Transcending kick of a CHASSE. depending on which style of French Pugilism
you have been trained in you will or have been schooled in the type of Chasse.
There are minute differences from the different forms of chasses trained in
Savate, Boxe Francaise and even Savate: Boxe Francaise.
Yet the chasse resembles the same yet the grouping or arming is slightly
different within the three styles (Boxe Francaise, Savate and Savate: Boxe
Francaise).
Chasse named after the word to hunt has been seen in training halls (salles)
both Boxe Francaise and Savate, having several regional derivatives of a chasse
such as: Coup De Mul, coup de Singe, Jete or Italienne. With in Danse De Rue
Savate we train in all the different kicks during the different glove ranking
levels to ensure a well rounded zipotero.
Many forget what a chasse is for: when dealing with a defense move it quickly
changes the tunes into the Offensive. Which is the ultimate zone that you want to
be in: a clam, collected offensive structure. This kick is to crack or burst
through a strike and above all to cause a jolt that will change the thinking of
the aggressor.
The reason many of the different types of Chasse’s are not trained. Is because
of their legality in the sporting arena. Making it hard for those players of
Contemporary Savate to learn, given the sport of Savate: Boxe Francaise in its
simplicity is what they have seen.
Regardless, let us not forget why the
kicks were designed. The mere grouping of a chasse allows you to follow up with
another kick if need be. This recoil is
familiar to all the kicks of Danse de Rue Savate, allowing for counter attacks
to be easily done by a zipotero.
Its power revolves around the point of impact; its piston movement affects the
striking point with force building in its circular motion. Its recoil adds to the damage of the chasse causing trauma to
the same striking area. The back up mass is directed into three inch square
causing a small explosion in a solid 9 inched of muscle. So doubling the effect, unlike its eastern
counterparts which cause trauma in one direction.
The depth of
the strike is the reason that it is used. if you have or are not used to a
chasses in terms of absorbing the energy and waiting later to feel the pain. you
will be subdued instantly, thus causing a zipotero to flow in a combative zone.
The striking area of any chasse is that of your heal. So depending on the type
of shoes that you have will determine the damage of your strike. When wearing a
cowboy boot you will crack a bone or cause internal bleeding. When you wear a
combat type boot, say a dock martin steel toe or something similar you can cause
breakage and tearing of lower appendages.
So, many other martial artist of other styles, bewilder themselves with the
abilities of a chasse. Some say negative remarks until proven otherwise. While
others try to kick in a certain fashion trying to mimic the essence of a chasse
with no clarity what so ever to its basic fundamentals.
Nonetheless with constant practice and good training will lead you in applying a
good Chasse.