Weapons

H.G. Lang’s “Walking Stick Method of Self Defence”

While we’re tooling up, I wanted to point out some great reprints and original publications by some of our friends. Kirk Lawson did a great job on his Walking Stick Method of Self Defence reprint, down to matching both the layout and font as closely as possible.

Lang’s method is based upon Pierre Vigny’s la canne and was learned over the course of a few months spent at the Bartitsu School in London when it was active in the early 1900s. Lang also mentioned an influence of “bois” which assumedly goes to the stickfighting traditions of Trinidad (also known as sticklicking or kalinda/kalenda; see a great carnival account here).

You can find a quality print version for purchase and a FREE PDF here.