For davywavy, suave_steve,

[karohemd]

Self-defense for gentlemen (the way of the walking stick)
(link courtesy of toxicpixie)

Comments

[akonken.livejournal.com]

Dude!

You were clearly not paying attention to my outburst about how awesome umbrella-fu is.

[akonken.livejournal.com]

Oh, also, I had a Son of Ether character who knew Bartitsu at one point. It's a super rad fighting style.

[jholloway.livejournal.com]

I am such a good influence on you.

I have an electronic copy of "the New Science of Self-Defense" around here somewhere...

[corone.livejournal.com]

Are you sure the two gentlemen in the pictures are not dancing? :-)

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Very nice -- thanks for the link!

Grasso's work can also be found at http://www.gutterfighting.org/Main.html

There's a specific 19th century French martial art that focuses on the walking stick, it's called La Canne. Texts in it seem few and far between though.

[renfield286.livejournal.com]

Of course, a Gentleman would only use such a measure in the diarest of circumstances.