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FRENCH BOXING [4 records]

Record 1 2015-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Boxing
OBS

The Fédération Internationale de Boxe Amateur(FIBA)... was dissolved and the English Amateur Boxing Association, in partnership with the French Boxing Federation decided to create AIBA, the "Association internationale de boxe amateur. "Now, 60 years later, AIBA continues to govern Olympic Games boxing... The word "amateur" is no longer used...

OBS

AIBA is a non-profit-making international organization comprising the boxing associations of all countries which have a national governing body controlling the sport of boxing ...

OBS

... the International Boxing Association continues to work diligently to ensure a fair, safe and drug free sport ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Boxe

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Boxeo
OBS

En noviembre de 1946, un nuevo comienzo se le dio al cuerpo de gobierno del boxeo [...] [La] FIBA fue disuelta y la Asociación Amateur de Boxeo Inglés, en colaboración con la Federación Francesa de Boxeo, decidieron crear la AIBA, la Asociación Internacional de Boxeo Amateur. [...] La palabra "amateur" ya no se utiliza [...] la Asociación Internacional de Boxeo sigue trabajando diligentemente para asegurar un deporte libre, justo, seguro.

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Record 2 2012-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boxing
  • Martial Arts
DEF

A French form of boxing, later known as "kick boxing", or "kickboxing".

CONT

Savate was a French form of boxing in which the contestants used their feet rather than their fists. Its name is taken from the French word "savate"("old shoe"). The sport was popular in France, particularly among the lower classes in the cities, before the introduction of the English form of boxing. Savate was most in vogue during the 18th century.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Boxe
  • Arts martiaux
DEF

Genre de pugilat où les adversaires se frappent avec les pieds. Ce sport se pratiquait surtout au 17e siècle en France.

CONT

Boxe française. [...] Née vers 1820 dans le faubourg parisien de la Courtille, elle s'appelait alors la «savate» ou le «chausson» lorsqu'il s'agissait d'enseignement militaire. Vers 1850, Lecour ajoute la technique des poings à celle des pieds : c'est la Boxe française.

OBS

La savate fut adoptée dans l'armée française sous le nom de «chausson»; passée en Amérique vers 1848, on la nomme, «savate-boxing», combat qui allie pied et poing, et l'ancêtre de ce qui deviendra le «kickboxing».

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boxing
  • Martial Arts
CONT

"Savate" was a French form of boxing in which the contestants used their feet rather than their fists.... Savate was most in vogue during the 18th century.... In an attempt to retain, in the face of the growing popularity of English boxing, some aspects of the historic French sport, Charles Lecour and his son Hubert developed "la boxe française"("French boxing") in the 19th century. This new sport combined kicking with punching with the fists. Although there was some initial enthusiasm for the sport, French boxing never gained wide acceptance and in the 20th century was confined to infrequent exhibitions.

OBS

[A renewal took place] in 1965 in France under the name "boxe française" which became, in 1976, "boxe française - savate" [and] in America around 1974 under the name "full-contact karate" in the United States and "kickboxing" in Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Boxe
  • Arts martiaux
DEF

Genre de boxe où coups de poings (avec gants) et coups de pied (avec chaussures) sont permis.

OBS

Boxe française. 1820 : née dans le faubourg parisien de la Courtille, elle s'appelait alors la «savate» ou le «chausson» lorsqu'il s'agissait d'enseignement militaire. Vers 1850 : Lecour ajoute la technique des poings à celle des pieds : c'est la Boxe française. Vers 1900 : elle devient le sport national des Français. Vers 1940 : sous l'effet de la concurrence de la boxe anglaise professionnelle, la boxe française décline. 1965 : renouveau. 1972 : création de la Fédération nationale de boxe française qui, en 1976, devient la Fédération française de boxe française-savate et disciplines assimilées.

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boxing
  • Martial Arts
DEF

A form of boxing, especially popular in Oriental countries, in which kicking with bare feet is permitted.

CONT

Thai boxing, a favorite sport in Thailand, is similar to savate.

OBS

Savate was a French form of boxing in which the contestants used their feet rather than their fists. It was most in vogue during the 18th century.

OBS

Today's fans of kickboxing consider their sport as of Oriental origin rather than coming from French boxing or its ancestor, savate.

OBS

Thai kickboxer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Boxe
  • Arts martiaux
DEF

Sport pratiqué surtout en Orient et dérivé de la boxe française ou savate où les pugilistes s'affrontent avec des gants mais peuvent aussi frapper l'adversaire avec le pied nu.

OBS

boxe orientale : équivalent proposé (RCF, 1984, 544) qui fait bien la distinction entre le sport pratiqué en Orient (poings gantés, pieds nus) et celui qui se pratique, à compter de 1965 en France et de 1974 en Amérique (poings gantés, pieds chaussés).

Spanish

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