Impact over Edged Weapons?

Musashi

I've always loved a good stick. Be it a hazel rod for walking and as an improvised rifle rest, a Hickory pick or sledge handle, Rattan (or Durattan) canes, down to palm sticks of all sizes. I like the fact that a strike tends not to shed blood, how a cane can be carried where a sword can't. Even how a stick can be an umbrella or flashlight, even a pen.

Props must go to Aikido for fuelling my interest, when I found more Jo tech. than Katana I really wanted to learn more! Even now, I collect all types of sticks. This clip I found today just gave me the warm fuzzies inside!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2XNR2IsLrI

This guy can move a stick fer an auld lad!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGVPQRoYvQ&mode=related&search=

Is Maeve available to comment on how much Bo/Jo is included in modern Aikido syllabus? Please and thank you Ma'am!

pearsquasher

Yep Jo's - 4ft staffs - are interesting. Been to a few Bujinkan seminars about it and it's defintely different to bo (6ft) and hanbo (ft). There's types of striking and "cutting" with it that the others don't allow.

edges

Ever considered FMA? we spend most of our time playing with sticks, the same moves are then transfered across into other weapons, knives/empty hands/machete etc

Edged over impact?
in an ideal world, give me a blade any day! But like you say, learning the stick opens up so many more avenues for improvising weapons in the real world.

Keep training:)

Dave
www.wildgeesema.com

Musashi

In an ideal world Dave Joyce would be my neighbour and I could "cut fools" with no legal repercussions. Given the hand we are dealt a cane is a viable alternative for SD. We can also go with MAg and Mini Mag Lights ( I use drop in LED conversions in mine) or even Surefire like my E2D

What I've seen of FMA I really like, hope to learn more cane stuff for my Durattan double stick stuff

in an ideal world, give me a blade any day!

I really should photograph my collection one of these days! :eek:

I like knives, I really do. If I'm standing in court defending my actions I would prefer to be defending whupping someone with a walking stick rather than my Golok!

MaeveD

Musashi wrote:

I've always loved a good stick. Be it a hazel rod for walking and as an improvised rifle rest, a Hickory pick or sledge handle, Rattan (or Durattan) canes, down to palm sticks of all sizes. I like the fact that a strike tends not to shed blood, how a cane can be carried where a sword can't. Even how a stick can be an umbrella or flashlight, even a pen.

Props must go to Aikido for fuelling my interest, when I found more Jo tech. than Katana I really wanted to learn more! Even now, I collect all types of sticks. This clip I found today just gave me the warm fuzzies inside!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2XNR2IsLrI

This guy can move a stick fer an auld lad!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGVPQRoYvQ&mode=related&search=

Is Maeve available to comment on how much Bo/Jo is included in modern Aikido syllabus? Please and thank you Ma'am!

Hey Musahi,

No Bo... and I'm rubbish at Jo, but it is included in our syllabus (wish I was better at it) There's a guy called Luc Mathevet coming to DCU 16/17th Dec and he is the sh*t hottest I've seen with a Jo in my Aikido so far..... and he's smaller than me!

You are perfectly right Musashi a walking stick is way more legal than a sword... there may be dvd coming to you very soon on this very subject I'll keep you posted!

Musashi

Cheers Maeve! I love walking with my white waxwood cane, very sturdy and can be used many ways. I like the Aikido style, also Biddle and Styers Bayonet method and La Canne? stuff from French Savate. Maybe that's why Luc is so **** hot on stick work, any Savateurs in his family? I've seen a little of the Hapkido Cane also, everything points to a sturdy walking stick being an ideal day to day tool as well as a last ditch defensive weapon. I really should get a knobby blackthorn stick too

17HMR

Have a look at Cold Steel's "Stun, Stagger, Stop" DVD set....

Some very good, simple and straight forward stick work derived from the FMA and reduced to the bare essentials.