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Craig Gemeiner -Director of the Gemeiner Academy of European Combat Arts, is currently offering private and group classes along with seminars on Savate and associated Western martial arts. With 30 years experience in the Martial arts including savate and its associated fighting disciplines, along with a background of over 2 decades of continuous coaching Craig Gemeiner has provide demonstrations, lectures, and workshops to various martial arts academies, educational institutions and major promotional events.
Craig is considered a pioneer in the process of rediscovering Europe’s traditional combat arts and adapting them to modern use.
He is an instructor of la canne Vigny, Baton Militaire, Defense Dan’s La Rue (street savate), a silver glove instructor in sport savate- French kickboxing, a prevot fencing instructor in modern fencing, and a senior free- scholar graduate from the ARMA group. He has given seminars in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, USA, and Italy and is the current president and acting technical director of the Australian Savate Federation Inc . Craig is also member of the O’ Brien Academy of Fencing, Federation Internationale De Savate (FIS) and the Australasian Historical Swordplay Federation. He has competed in full contact martial arts, fencing, boxing, and kickboxing and currently competes in ‘assaut’ level savate competitions. Craig has released the ground breaking videos/DVDs -
- Defense dans la rue Vol.1
- Sport Savate Vol.1
- La canne Vol.1
- La canne Vol.2
- La canne Vol.3
and has written essays for Fighttimes.com, Bujitsue international, English Fighters, savate australia.com, Japan based cultural martial arts magazine “Hiden” - 2 issues and also been featured as author of month by Paladin press.com
