Ok, enough of that…<\/p>\n
Here I am in my more dressy kilt.\u00a0 You can’t really see it, but the kilt and vest are pinstripe.\u00a0 I’m also carrying a cane that can be used to defend myself.\u00a0 This particular one would not be my choice for defense (I prefer something in oak with a crook), but it is, when it comes down to it, an aluminum pole that no one will question you carrying around.\u00a0 This is especially useful when you’re, say, in downtown Atlanta attending a convention with roughly 52,000 other geeks and the rules say no guns.<\/p>\n It’s interesting that the cane as a defense tool seems to get rediscoverd ever-so-often.\u00a0 While I was at Dragoncon, I attended a panel discussing Bartitsu and A.C. Cunningham’s thoughts on the matter.\u00a0 Of course, any proper fan of Sherlock Holmes has heard of Bartitsu, but A.C. Cunningham was an American Naval officer that wrote about adapting spear and saber techniques to the cane.\u00a0 Of course, during that time, most gentlemen carried canes as a fashion item whether they needed it or not.\u00a0 Something I don’t think I’d be upset about should it come back into fashion (although I doubt it will).<\/p>\n While, sadly, both Bartitsu and Cunnigham’s teaching have faded away, there are a couple options for the modern gentleman to learn how to effectively use the cane.\u00a0 There are a few traditional martial arts that have used the cane for some time.\u00a0 The most prominent in my mind is Hapkido.\u00a0 For a modern art dedicated to the walking cane as a weapon, I’d have to go with the Goju-Shorei<\/a> system.\u00a0 Of course, the fact that my instructor is the director of the weapons system might make me a little biased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok, so we’re into week 3 of Kilted to Kick Cancer, and you guys have donated… nothing. I’m going to blame myself for obviously not promoting it enough, and not having anything nifty to give away.\u00a0 A few folks on GBC have suggested that I threaten you with pictures of me in nothing *but* a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMAG0014-577x1024.jpg\")
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