I think that savate in combination with western art of sambo is great thing. I know many people from Great Britain and France who practice this combination of sports.
If you practice - kicking with shoes - in sambo, then savate can help you with a lot of strategy there. Like in chess - when you have many books about great duels of chess masters - you have also in savate a lot of strategy which comes written in the same way also in fighting.
It is similar to book writers. You read more and more good books and then you can write more and more good books. It is just experiance.
You taste a knowledge of other artists.
I like this comparison. Like old painters - they went to other painters to learn more and more. Sometimes - they finished some parts of big paintings for their painting masters.
And also later - they contributed with their style of painting on development of painting in the whole world.
I think that savate could be nice try. What is your opinion?