Lethal Weapon VI: CaneFu Fighting!
p2pnet news view | Cool:- ” ‘Down on top of the head and up between the groin!’ urges instructor Debra Stewart, of nearby Chung’s Academy of Martial Arts, commanding a dozen gray-haired students swinging canes at imaginary attackers. ‘Stomp him! Dig it in there. Do it hard!
“Jim Ghory, an 82-year-old retired toolmaker, volunteers to take a few demonstration shots at Ms. Stewart, who has a black belt in tae kwon do, a Korean martial-arts discipline. ‘You want [it in] the collarbone or the ribs?’ he asks.’
Um, Pass. heh.
The quotes are from a Cane Masters story from the summer of 2008 which continues »»»
Many credit the rise of cane fighting to Mark Shuey, a 61-year-old tae kwon do and hapkido expert who owns Cane Masters. Mr. Shuey started studying cane moves in earnest about 10 years ago while practicing hapkido, which incorporates stick fighting at advanced levels. At the time, his father was starting to use a walking stick, and he had heard reports of attacks on seniors who carried canes but didn’t know how to use them to fight back. By 2003, the Canadian magazine Martial Arts Experts was calling canes “the weapon you can take anywhere.” Cane fighting, also called “combat” cane or “cane fu,” has been endorsed by at least eight martial-arts organizations.
Instructors say any kind of cane is fine for self-defense, including aluminum canes or the wooden canes made of pine available at the drugstore. But best are hard-wood canes made of hickory or oak that don’t easily break on impact.
Now, “Cane fighting classes have popped up all over the country, in part due to the influence of Cane Masters, the company Shuey founded that sells wood canes made of harder, thicker wood, to sustain wear and wider crooks to fit around an attacker’s neck,” says the Associated Press, pointing out it’s being offered at dojos and, “increasingly in senior centers and retirement communities”.
“You just don’t realize how much pain you could put on somebody really quick,” says 61-year-old Ed Smoak of Pinellas Park in thsw sotry, adding:
“Nobody thinks of a cane as being any kind of an impressive weapon but even a person like me – I’m disabled, like I said I don’t move real well – and even me, I could do this.”
Ah SO glasshopper!
Now you know. 
Cane Masters – Everybody Is ‘Cane Fu’ Fighting,July 12, 2008
Associated Press – Cane-Fu teaches seniors self-defense, March 23, 2009
Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It’s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Drat! Another of the Secrets ™ revealed.
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Lots of canes also have “ice breaker” extensions on them, which many don’t remove during the good weather.
Just a thought.
X 0
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I can get 14 channels and the BBC on mine.
Cheers!