The Bear is right. Here is a video from one of these groups. ДиÑциплины шермиций. ОÑновные Ñлементы. ЧаÑÑ‚ÑŒ...
It would be very interresting to see the "anti closing in-techniques"! It is all the coup de bout or talon. Here are some from Hebert: [IMG]...
Yes the roof parry. Still used today actually especially for "active parries" (a parry transforming into a strike). This is normally what...
No problem, its just that the way it was formulated kind of meant that Vigny was the ancestor of modern canne de combat, which it isn't. Modern...
He never mentions the lentgh, but 1,25 metres is way too long for the walking cane he shows. This is the proper guard:...
Just to mention that there are other ancient version of French canne, all of them using the standard tierce guard. To my knowledge Vigny is the...
It seems Last man standing also made an episode about it: YouTube - Ethiopian Suri Stick Fighting BBC - Last Man Standing Part 1 Its more...
Here is a documentary about the Suri and in large part about their traditional stick fighting. YouTube - Suri / Surma of - Ethiopia Amazing Stick...
Now that's interesting, thanks Louie! I wonder at the percentage of sucess on such an encounter but when you got nothing to lose.
Not necessarily. Like I said some ryu ha teach gun use. A bushi could very well end up with a gun, in fact many battles by the end of the Sengoku...
There are schools that teach the use of the arquebus. I don't know what are their curriculum though. Other than that there are no schools teaching...
Why hide behind an armor? Japanese had pavises that they quite effectively hid behind to protect against arrows and later bullets. That's...
Actually there are examples of blades made of namban tetsu. Commerce was also made with continental Asia and later other western powers. I...
While I don't necessarily like to tag it as a cane, there is bataireacht (Irish stick) which I practice. The style is called An Maide Bata, it is...
But they did had many other ressources to trade for iron (copper, gold, silver, etc). And if you can make a steel jingasa, you can make a small...
Really, which ones? If you are talking about Yagyu Shingan ryu then it is a metal helmet being used as a buckler, and Ryukyu kobudo is not a...
Talking about universal sword principles, half-swording (Soete-waza) seems to be quite common, is it practiced in Korean or Chinese traditions I...
The influence of european methods on toyama ryu is probable, but very small. There is only one position that is clearly european in the original...
By the way we finally settled with a name for the style, An maide bata (the swift stick) as to John's family wishes. And have a mailing list for...
I can also attest that William Sanders is the representative of the style in the US. There are many techniques I don't remember to have seen, but...
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