Stumbled across the Big Stick Combat Blog. About using long sticks, baseball bats, canes, and other such for self-defense.
Just started reading it. Looks interesting.
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Some interesting posts there. I used to practice some martial arts and compete in tournaments when I was in my early twenties. I liked the one about the difference between martial arts and fighting arts; they are not always the same. Some of the techniques used are not really practical in the real world with people who actually know something about scrapping.
About thirty years ago I was watching a demo being done by a local dojo; the sensei was showing how great the moves worked against all sorts of attacks by having people from the audience take part in the demos, where they would throw a punch, etc, and how the defender would go through all of the techniques for countering it. I must have had an amused expression on my face, because he asked me to attack one of the demonstrators with a rubber knife. I said “No, thanks” but he insisted. When we squared off, I kicked him in the groin and then “slashed” him lightly across the throat when he doubled over. The sensei was not amused.
Ha ha. I love it.
Reminds me of that sketch, I think from “In Living Color” with Jim Carrey as a karate instructor teaching women how to defend themselves against an attacker. Maybe your sensei there should have shifted his organs… before you shifted it for him. 😉 (go watch the video).