Walking Cane Weapon

[Sasori_Te]

You can also try looking at https://www.gojushorei.com

 

Sensei Mcneill was the other original co-founder of CaneMasters besides Mark Shuey. He makes some great canes too.

 

If Shoju is still running around in here you might want to try asking him as his organization was starting to make their own canes. They were going to start selling them for good prices the last I heard.

 

It's very difficult to use drugstore quality canes for martial art work. They are nowhere near sturdy enough to take constant punishment. You need to find a good oak or hickory cane. My instructors cane is hickory heartwood and it's take some SERIOUS abuse. After years of this I actually managed to nick it a couple of months ago. Time to strip it, sand it, soak it and refinish it.

 

I have a friend in Arizona that also makes beautiful custom canes out of exotic woods like purple heart. They are very nice. I'll post his website if I can find my business card holder. If you don't feel like waiting on me you can do a search on T.J.'s Weapons. Let me know if you find him.

[Sho-ju]

A topic after my own heart!

 

Don't forget Cead Bua (Fighting Faction) bhata. It's a very well rounded foam of Irish Stick play that has roots in the faction fights of 1800's. Here's a few links on the topic, if you have any questions I'll try and help, I'm not an expert or anything like that, just a person who has spent the last year really working with canes and bhata's.

 

http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_barton-wright_0200.htm

 

http://www.geocities.com/glendoyle/bata/index.html

 

http://www.the-exiles.org/manual/lang/lang.htm

 

http://ahfaa.org/civilian.htm

 

The cane is by far the best (legal) weapon you can carry. IMO

[Sho-ju]

PS: If you want a cane, a good cane that will hold up, pm me and I'll tell you how to go about making one for less then $15 bucks! (But you'll be under oath, by pain of death not to give away the method and plan.) kidding.

[Sho-ju]

http://karateforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=11397&highlight=canes&sid=a04c4d57f38e0efad1f1e800f9ffac5b

 

http://karateforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=12489&highlight=canes&sid=a04c4d57f38e0efad1f1e800f9ffac5b

 

http://karateforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=11059&highlight=canes&sid=a04c4d57f38e0efad1f1e800f9ffac5b

 

http://karateforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=10875&highlight=canes&sid=a04c4d57f38e0efad1f1e800f9ffac5b

 

http://karateforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=11060&highlight=irish&sid=a04c4d57f38e0efad1f1e800f9ffac5b

 

http://karateforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=10881&highlight=irish&sid=a04c4d57f38e0efad1f1e800f9ffac5b

 

I hope these thread offer more on the topic.

[Shane]

thanks Sho-ju for all of the info!

[MenteReligieuse]

I know you can learn cane in traditional Savate. There are even cane competitions (sparrings) In Europe...

[Shane]

I know that some savate schools offer cane training. I dont think it is a regular walking cane with the crook. I think it is basically a straight cane that the french gentlemen started to carry after wearing swords was outlawed, and some of the straight canes contained a hidden blade within but lacked the crook (bent end). I might be wrong on this I do not study savate but have done some reading on it, I find if very interesting. Or maybe that was then and now they are implementing new training methods with crooked canes.

[MenteReligieuse]

There are different types of canes in savate.

[Shane]

Thats interesting, I posted a post about a month ago looking for any Savate Instructors in Washington State, but no luck. If you know of any let me know. I would love to take it up, especially if I could find one that taught the cane techniques.

 

Thanks

[47MartialMan]

I guess if you defeat a adversary with a cane, gives a whole new meaning of "caning" (someone)