From April 10th to April 13th, a delegation of savateuses and savateurs from Quebec (Canada) visited their counterparts in the island of Guadeloupe in the French West Indies.
At the origin of this initiative, Kevin Larcher from Montreal's Escouade club, Pierre Masson from Gwada Boxing Club (Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) and a vision: to make Savate grow in the French-speaking space (Francophonie) in the Americas and create an opportunity to exchange and share around both culture and Savate, through two seminars, a gala and other meetings to mingle and discuss.
This visit, a pilot project ran which allowed the Savate League of Guadeloupe and the Canadian Federation of Savate to forge links, and to formalize the wish to set up a bi-annual meeting within the Francophonie in the Americas. This meeting, called: SAFRAM for SAvate FRancophone of the AMericas, pronounce [‘sæfrən] as the spice, would represent the diversity of the Francophone/Francophile savate in the Americas. Each edition would be hosted in a different country and would be listed on the International Savate Federation's calendar.
So, savateuses and savateurs, francophones and francophiles from the Americas, stay tuned for the first SAFRAM edition in 2020.
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