January 17, 2005

Self-defence with a Walking-stick The Different Methods of Defending Oneself with a Walking-Stick or Umbrella when Attacked under Unequal Conditions
posted by dng 19 years ago
  • As a Batman fan, I learned all I need to know about self-defense with an umbrella from the Penguin.
  • Great drawings. "Have at you, old bean!"
  • If you enjoy the illustrative figures in straw boaters as much as I do, then you'll enjoy many articles in JNC's sister publication, the deliciously titled Journal of Manly Arts.
  • Truly delightful links. Take that, you impudent scoundrel!
  • But suppose you're attacked by a banana?
  • If you are truly reliant on a walking cane, you do not have the balance to do these defense and attack stances. Better to carry a piece.
  • The Honourable British Gentleman would not lower himself and carry a gun. Unless he was in Africa, controlling the natives.
  • I am being sorry that you are forgetting also gujarat, sahib!
  • I dig the hats. ("old bean" -- heh!)
  • To employ the same trick in a crowd it is only necessary to stoop, cover your face well with your arm and hand, and to keep diving with your stick between people's legs, upsetting them right and left. heh Take that, you bounders!
  • Therefore, in order to make a stick a real means of self-defence, it has been necessary to devise a system by which one can guard a blow in such a way as to cause it to slide away from the hand instead of toward it, and thus obviate the risk of being disarmed by being hit upon the fingers. Not a bad idea even if you are using a sword. Wrists are good targets, too. Great link dng (and goetter)! Looks like the Journal of Western Martial Arts has some interesting stuff too.
  • This site's got nothing on the kid from Iron Monkey.