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Stick Fighting: Techniques of Self-Defense Masaaki Hatsumi, Quintin Chambers
Publisher: Kodansha America

They have a great distance learning program and great DVD'S on The Insular Irish stick .The ones I have are full of techniques , lore ,self defense applications and sparring. As a matter of law, the moment you engage in avoidable violence of this kind—rising to a challenge and escalating the conflict—you lose any legal claim to self-defense. Put the Kung Fu Spirit into Your Self Defence Moves or. Your responsibility in a self-defense scenario is to defend yourself until the bad guy is no longer a threat. I start my courses with teaching the hand-to-hand combat part – knife and stick fighting elements, so that my students would understand there's one principle for any situation, it doesn't matter if an opponent has a knife in his hand, or a stick, or maybe it's just his fist. Big Stick Combat Baseball Bat, Cane, and Long Stick for Self-Defense and Fitness. While practicing Hapkido stick fighting techniques he started studying cane moves. Not a prime example of self defense, though. The first thing you must know is that the kung fu (KF) fighting spirit is vastly different in style and in presentation to other types of martial arts. The ideal weapon for self-defense is a stick. An interesting documentary sheds light on the roots of Irish stick fighting. Hatsumi's book, Stick Fighting: Techniques of Self-Defense, is not a dueling book. The development of this technique is credited to Mark Shuey a Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido expert. Videos of these guys in action from the past have looked awsome, no pads and full out speed , great control , technique and foot work . To find a comprehensive system of techniques using the stick, we must turn to the East, for systems. So consequently almost every review of this book I read coming from those who practice Filipino stick fighting have totally hated it. In sport every fighter makes his own set of techniques, but teaching self-defense we teach anyone one and the same techniques, because they are the most rational and selected moves.