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Myth: Canes Required Carry Permits

By Jason Couch ⋅ March 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

You may have never happened across this particular myth, and I just saw it for the first time myself, but a number of sites that discuss the history of the cane perpetuate a myth that around the early 18th century, licenses were required to carry canes in England.
There are variations on the theme, but the […]

The Cane as a Weapon (1912)

By Jason Couch ⋅ February 24, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

In 1912, A.C. Cunningham published The Cane as a Weapon, which even today remains the best book I have ever seen on fighting with a cane. It is amazingly succinct and conveys what is as nearly a complete system of cane fighting as a reader could desire, all within 25 pages.

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