Cane Fighting
The Authoritative Guide to Using the Cane or Walking Stick for Self-Defense
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3.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Cane Fighting: The Authoritative Guide to Using the Cane or Walking Stick for Self-Defense is a no nonsense book written for anyone who wants to learn how to use the cane or walking stick as a fighting weapon for real-world self-defense.
While seemingly inconspicuous, the cane or walking stick is both a practical and devastating weapon for all ages, young and old, regardless of size or strength or experience and skill level. Most importantly, you don’t need martial arts training to master this incredible self-defense weapon.
With over 200 photographs and step-by-step instructions, Cane Fighting is the authoritative resource for mastering the following weapons: The Hooked Wooden Cane, The Modern Tactical Cane, All Types of Walking Sticks, The Irish Fighting Shillelagh and The Bo Staff.
Cane Fighting is devoid of tricky or flashy cane fighting moves that can get you injured or possibly killed when defending against a determined attacker. Instead, it arms you with practical and powerful cane fighting techniques that actually work in the chaos of real-life street assaults. In fact, the skills and techniques found in these pages are surprisingly simple and easy to apply.
How to choose the right tactical cane for your needs, advantages of the combat cane, weapon requirements, grips, essential dos and don’ts, weapon terminology, high and low concealment stances, strikes, power swings, preparing for impact shock, first strike techniques, combinations, striking angles, cane chokes, self-defense stages, blocks, deflections, footwork skills, cane fighting attributes, target areas, medical implications of cane strikes, use-of-force concerns, workout routines, conditioning exercises, and much more!
Whether you are a beginner or advanced practitioner, student or instructor, Cane Fighting: The Authoritative Guide to Using the Cane or Walking Stick for Self-Defense teaches you powerful street-oriented techniques and proven fighting methods to get you home alive and in one piece.
Customer Reviews
Some good information and some misinformation
I was somewhat disappointed in this book, but after researching the author I can understand why. He seems to have written books on a number of self defense / fighting topics. So much so, that I venture to say his real expertise is in authoring books and not on the topics which he writes about.
This is readily apparent as he goes over the pros and cons of a cane as a self defense tool. His observations on the cane’s offensive of capability are fine, but his lack of knowledge is readily apparent when he begins to speak of the cane’s defensive deficiencies. For example, he writes that the cane is ineffective against a blitzing “postal” type attack and goes on to say that a cane is also ineffective against a knife.
These are two observations that couldn’t be more wrong as they cut against the whole benefit of having a weapon in the first place. To suggest that possession of a powerful impact weapon like a cane is ineffective against an unarmed assailant is to suggest that there is no purpose in carrying a weapon in the first place. The two primary reasons for using a weapon are 1) having an advantage against an unarmed opponent and 2) the ability to somewhat neutralize the advantage an opponent’s weapon might provide him. This to Franco goes against both of these premises.
He seems to me to be someone whose expertise is assumed given the numerous books he has authored in areas related to combat. I doubt he has had much practical experience as either a professional fighter or someone in law-enforcement who has had to go against both armed and unarmed assailants.
I myself was a New York City police officer in the South Bronx for 15 years. I had extensive experience in fighting both armed and unarmed criminals and I can say without hesitation that a nightstick is a very effective tool against an unarmed criminal. Against an opponent armed with a knife, the nightstick can also be very effective when properly used. However, given the police officers possess sidearms, that should be the go to weapon of choice when confronting a knife, but for the civilian who does not have access to a firearm, an impact weapon of sufficient length can be highly effective against a knife as well as an assailant who has gone “postal.” To suggest otherwise is incorrect and betrays a lack of knowledge and real world experience.
FRANK T.
Rather basic
It has good material, but is rather basic and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone with decent experience, but probably good for a beginner.