The cane, first used for support and then as a gentleman's accessory, also provided a useful weapon. There is, however, a martial tradition passed down to the Swiss master, Pierre Vigny, which was used for codification of techniques using the Indian cane at the beginning of the 20th century, forming a separate tradition from the more common sporting cane seen in France today. Its use has thus been lost and today canne de combat itself is disappearing. The medieval stick is too heavy a weapon to be used in competition. The French tradition includes techniques of medieval stick-fighting ( bâton français), excepting those techniques considered too dangerous to be used in sport. The use of the cane as a weapon, as originally taught in weapons schools, was codified by the masters of savate so that the cane was taught as a weapon of self-defence. Canne de combat was also taught in 1994 in Memphis, Tennessee. Jean-Noel Eynard, FFBFSDA/ FIS Professeur with the assistance of former FFBFSDA/ FIS DTN Bob Alix. The first real FFBFSDA/ FIS club of Canne de combat/ Savate was open in 1983 on the east coast in Philadelphia, under Dr. In the USA it is said that Jean-Noel Eynard brought canne de combat to the east coast in combination with Savate. Today, the sport canne de combat is practiced by a thousand cannistes, and the French staff by some hundreds of bâtonniers or bâtonnistes. Aside from the sport approach, self-defense techniques are still alive e.g., the "Master Lafond" technique. This led to the discipline which is still today associated with the Federation de Savate Boxe Française ("French Savate Boxing Federation"). Self-defence sport ĭuring the late 1970s, the techniques of the canne d'arme were codified by Maurice Sarry with a view to rehabilitating it as a sport. Cane fighting techniques of the late 1950s and 1960s were influenced by a few skilled individuals who revived it. There is reputed to be a group who operated during the Nazi occupation who used cane techniques to carry out assassinations. The techniques continued, however, to be taught in a few savate boxing clubs that reopened in between the two wars and managed to survive World War II.
The death of many of its practitioners during the war caused the discipline nearly to disappear.
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In the olden days, the techniques of savate and canne d'arme increased in popularity up to the point that they were used by military and police forces (depicted in the TV series Les Brigades du Tigre, referring to a special police task force of the French Third Republic) until World War I. In fact, cane and staff were closely associated in many countries and cultures. The cane was in the hands of the city men, while the staff was in the hands of farm men. Gentlemen trained into the savate techniques mastered cane as a way of fighting from a certain distance as well as close combat kickboxing. The history of the discipline is closely linked to the development of the savate boxing techniques which at the beginning was mainly using kicks and lately under the influence of the British incorporated also punches. Some speak of French martial art although its codification as a sport does not allow this name officially.
It developed in the early 19th century as a self-defence discipline and was particularly used by upper class bourgeois gentlemen in big, unsafe cities such as Paris. The canne de combat or canne d'arme is a product of French history and culture. 15 Information and documentation about canne.
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