‘Sticks on a plane’ experiment a success.

[saltydog452]

I think I see a flashlight, ink pen, Sharpie, cap lifter for those uncivilized beverages that do not have twist-off caps, metalic Korean 'chop-sticks', ball point pen, and a small personal light that lets you read the dial of a watch or a menu.

What are the rest?

salty

 

[Owen Sparks]

The advantage a walking stick has over all of the various articles pictured above is that it gives you extra reach. Those items are all strike enhancers. They all must be used in a motion similar to a punch. The effectiveness of something like a sturdy marker or sharp pen depends on how fast and accurately you can punch but they don’t extend your reach to any appreciable degree.

In other words, they make your punch better but they don’t make you a better puncher.

If you are not a pretty good boxer to begin with they really are of limited use.
Sticks on the other hand will allow you to fight effectively well beyond your opponent’s reach. As long as you keep the bad guy out on the end of your stick he must play your game without any real defense as his main weapons, his hands become your prime targets.

Even in the confines of an airliner a trained man can use a sticks reach advantage against a knife wielding opponent, even multiple opponents because the lack of room is an advantage because he can’t get surrounded and can fight them one at a time under his terms.

 

[CWL]

Fighting in an narrow space can be very useful if you are defending. No easy way to get around you (unless someone is already behind you). Long sticks are great because it makes a great thrusting weapon to keep the BGs at a distance.

For close-up grappling, items like a pen are good for upward thrusts into BGs soft points like abdominal, throat, armpit, groin, etc. Downward blows can be applied to head, face, shoulders, quads, knees, forearms, tops of hands.

Yes, I agree that the Stinger does not make you a better boxer, however it does increase your targets. The Stinger is useful for both hard and soft target strikes. Shots into the BG's forearms, biceps, pectorals and quads can overload that muscle's pain receptors and allow you to set-up finishing blows.

 

[Owen Sparks]

The one place that the short weapon has a great advantage over a long stick is in very close during standing tie ups and grappling. The kicker is that you have to pass through the sticks power range where you have absolutely no defense in order to get to grapple. A good stick fighter can usually side step and circle well enough to deliver several unanswered blows and stop your charge before you can employ your strike enhancer. If you are fortunate enough to get the drop with an opponent with a stick you should hug him in close where he can't use his stick and make him play your game. The most effective short weapon is probably a hooked knife like a karambit. Contrary to popular belief you can also stab with them though not as well as with a conventional knife.

I often ask my students:

What is a better weapon, a sniper rifle capable of hitting a man at 1,000 yards or a snub nose revolver?

The answer is “It depends.”

The sniper rifle would be of no use if an attacker jumped in the front seat of your car where you did not have room to turn it and the snub nosed revolver would be of no use in the wide open terrain of Afghanistan where the enemy was out of range.

In short, there is no BEST overall weapon but there is a best weapon for every perticular situation. If you pay attention to your surroundings the stick, like a rifle can be used to keep an advasary from getting close enough to use any of the short weapons.

 

[oldbear]

Having a bad left knee I often need to use a cane, when walking long distances or when I get tired. I've also had to make a number of cross country flights in the last 18 months. The only attention I've received by the TSA folks is the polite question, "can you walk through the screening area with out your cane?" Several times, once past the screening area I've had TSA officers clear a seat for me and bring me my items that had to go through the tunnel.All-in-all I have experienced no problems when carrying my stick/cane on an airplane.

 

[Coltdriver]

Well glad to hear you gave it a try and had no hassles.

I have a Hickory cane with some very nicely done finger grips, the head of the cane makes about a 200 or 210 degree loop at the top and the end of the handle at the top is carved like a forked tongue.

If you get pulled by the forked handle you come along right quick. The finger grips make for a solid hand hold.

It is designed as a serious defensive weapon.

I have often wondered if I could pull off getting it through security.

 

[kBob]

Rail Driver,

I was raised in the area you live in, within a 30 minute drive and as a youth all the old farts carried hickory stock canes. Such canes have been discussed here a lot and someone had a link to a school of korean style stick fighting that showed useful modifications to a stock cane. These octagonal cross section croooked canes are not called stock canes because they are a standard or "stock" but because they can be used to convince stock, like cattle, to go where you want them to. They are as a result sturdy. I would suggest tht you check out the local Mom and Pop hardware stores and feed stores to look for one. It occurs to me there might be one or two available in one of the antique stores in Havana (Hey Vanner) Hmm perhaps I should ask sister to get there before you do.

When the capitol was just the little building in front of the fickle finger of state, nIn, such canes were common in that building.

I are a gradu-ate of that there girls school built next to Bobby's Stadium. Makes life in the Gainesville area interesting at least one weekend a year.

-kBob

 

[saltydog452]

Coltdriver, post 31

Can you post images of that?

thanks,

salty

 

[CWL]

Well glad to hear you gave it a try and had no hassles.

I have a Hickory cane with some very nicely done finger grips, the head of the cane makes about a 200 or 210 degree loop at the top and the end of the handle at the top is carved like a forked tongue.

If you get pulled by the forked handle you come along right quick. The finger grips make for a solid hand hold.

It is designed as a serious defensive weapon.

I have often wondered if I could pull off getting it through security.

Doesn't sound any more aggressive than the ones CaneMasters offers.