Irish Stick Fighting, Modern Self-Defense Academy, ABC Women's Self-Defense. John Borter

Irish Stick Fighting, Modern Self-Defense Academy, ABC Women's Self-Defense. John Borter
In this interview we spoke about Irish sticks, fencing, and ideologists of the Irish stick fighting. About producing of the Irish sticks. About the difference between Modern Self-Defense Academy school and other schools. About practicing an ax throwing.
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[@nickhall4526]

This is super informational !!! Looking forward to learning Irish stick fighting from you 🎯

[@josephtousignant7318]

Hi John, I enjoyed your interview, and especially for your more recent appreciation for Blackthorn Walking Sticks/ EDC Self Defense Tools. 🙂 Similar to you, I have accumulated many also, but I think I had a head start on you because I've been a bit addicted for over 12 years or so. My preference is for a natural bark finish, although I do own a few with black coatings (paint usually), but some of them (antique examples), got that dark finish the original way of placing them high up in a chimney to help speed the drying process. Most made today with a black finish are simply painted on, to mimic the older sticks from chimney treatments. The funny thing is, several of my most beautiful natural bark finished Blackthorn have been purchased having been painted on black along the shaft, and after careful and time-consuming stripping with a paint remover, rinsing and drying over several days, and applying 7-12 coats of an oil finish such as boiled linseed oil or tung oil,... feel wonderful in the hand and look amazing! I even have a few crook-style Blackthorn "canes", which you don't see too often because of the nature of the wood. Being very dense with close grain structure, they tend to crack putting a traditionally pronounced "crook" onto them more than oak and hickory, or other hardwoods more commonly available in the USA and bent into crook canes. Oh,... one important point I wanted to mention is regarding your application of key techniques from a variety of martial arts styles. (Starting @14:52 ... to about a minute later ) You may already know this but others may not; you are in very good company, my friend! Bruce Lee did just that himself, picking out exceptionally "effective" techniques from many differing traditional martial art styles. He didn't care about maintaining a specific style, ONLY that he could win as quickly as possible because he wasn't a big man physically. So he had to get-er-done and concentrated on what worked the best for him. Trial and error experimentation, along with grueling training routines and practice,... he gleaned the BEST from many MA styles. Not much to argue with there, in the reality of TCOB in the streets. Cheers, Joseph Tousignant Ti Rod Tactical

[@melloncolliemedb]

Irish stick has nothing to do with fencing, the shillelagh is a weapon not a training analogue for swords or knives.