Brenda my new Blackthorn Shillelagh

[@VTPSTTU]

Thanks for the video. I'd love to have a blackthorn walking stick and learn Irish martial arts.

[@tuerkefechi]

Blackthorn and Dogwood (German Hartriegel) are excellent woods for walking/fighting sticks. If you want to get hands on a nice short blackthorn cudgel, let me know, I know a very good stickmaker 😄

[@thinkordie7292]

Truly a great and interesting bit of information. Very educational and very useful. 🫡🥊👑

[@TheRealRomansThirteen]

The figure four a wrap that you did with the bandana that you showed about the thuggie, I've been playing around with that and you can do that with longer sticks. It started out with shorter clubs and then anything that I could improvise from shoelaces to whatever I can get my hands on. I'm using a coat rack to demo on. Then I tried something a little bit crazy I used a large kitchen knife in the ice pick position and got that figure four. That one scared me a little bit. Millwall breaks toilet plunger sticks I mean anything. Whether it's a flexible tool or a stiff tool and I remembered seeing this in a silat demo with a baton choke, and I was like oh that's how they do that now. It was Bruce Lee that said I don't fear the man that knows a thousand kicks I fear the man that trained the same kick a thousand times.... or something like that. It's amazing how you can take one technique with a multitude of different tools but accomplish the same goal even with some scary results. That kitchen knife thing man the sudden realization that hit me was.... you can definitely do that with a large combat knife as long as it has a single edge. You need to be able to grab the spine to pull it in.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:10 - The weapon 0:50 - Guard & two-handed strikes 1:10 - One-handed strikes 1:30 - Tommy method 2:50 - Conclusion PS : In case you are interested in Stick fighting , i can advise you to seek *Maxime Chouinard* (who has made a few videos on shillelagh and on french method of cane/bâton fencing like Leboucher, Hébert & the military) & *Les Arts Martiaux Francais* (where it's Leboucher's teacher Larribeau & other includes Lecour, Lafond & Delauney)

[@bigc5630]

Nice!!!!

[@junheceta268]

Brenda is a magnificent lady, guaranteed to break more than a few heads. Maybe one of these days you can publish a longer video on stick fighting with the shillelagh. It occurs to me that the shillelagh lends itself quite nicely to Col. W. E. Fairbairn’s method of stick fighting.

[@user-go2kw5lr2b]

Very nice Tommy, that's gonna hurt ! 😅

[@TheRealRomansThirteen]

I love to make theese look for a place where the wind blew trees over check the roots.

[@sportyspikeypk1]

Auditioning for Gangs Of New York, the sequel, by any chance…?😂 blackthorn is a hard wood, xlnt stuff, btw🤝

[@pfurlong2003]

Did you buy it from shillelagh the village?

[@TommyMooreww2combatives]

Otherwise it's just a sparkling Celtic stick

[@pfurlong2003]

He sends them all around the world