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Singlestick, also known as cudgels, is a martial art related to fencing and stick fighting, and a wooden weapon for the art, used for attack and defence, the thicker end being thrust through a cup-shaped hilt of basket-work to protect the hand. The French cane-fencing has a general similarity to single-stick play, but is designed more for defence with a walking-stick than as a school for the sabre. Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ...
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Stick fighting is a generic term for martial arts which utilize simple long slender, blunt, hand-held, generally wooden sticks for fighting such as a staff, cane, walking stick, baton or similar. ...
A walking stick is a tool used by many people to assist walking. ...
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The singlestick itself is a slender, round wooden rod, traditionally ash, about 34 inch long (three feet) and one inch in diameter and thicker at one end than the other, with a basket hilt.
It bears approximately the same relationship to the broadsword as the foil to the smallsword in being a sporting version of the weapon for safe practice. The term broadsword is used to refer to different types of swords, across many cultures and time periods. ...
An Italian-grip foil A foil is a type of sword used in fencing. ...
The Smallsword is a sword intermediate in historical period between the rapier and the classical épée, ancestor to the modern sporting épée. ...
The original form of the single-stick was the waster, which appeared in the 16th century and was merely a wooden sword used in practice for the backsword (see Sabre-fencing), and of the same general shape. By the first quarter of the 17th century wasters had become simple cudgels provided with sword-guards, and when, about twenty five years later, the basket-hilt came into general use, it was employed with the cudgel also, the heavy metal hilt of the backsword being discarded in favor of one of wicker-work. The guards, cuts and parries in single-stick play were at first identical with those of back-sword play, no thrusts being allowed (see Fencing). In terms of weapons and martial arts, a waster is typically a wooden replica of a particular weapon with which the user practices. ...
19th century French Navy officer sabre A backsword is a sword having a blade with only one edge. ...
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Hercules fights the Lernaean Hydra with a club A club or cudgel is perhaps the simplest of all melee weapons. ...
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History and technique The old idea, prevalent in 16th century England, that hits below the girdle were unfair, disappeared in the 18th century, and all parts of the person were attacked. The modern target area is the upper body, with the exception of the back of the head, and the upper part of the forward leg; historically, the target area has varied, with bouts sometimes only being decided by the drawing of blood from the head of one of the contestants, in the manner of the Mensur. Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
Academic fencing or Mensur fencing is the traditional kind of fencing practiced by certain types of Studentenverbindungen in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. ...
Under Kings George I and George II, back-sword play with sticks was immensely popular under the names cudgel-play and singlesticking, not only in the cities but in the country districts as well, wrestling being its only rival. Towards the end of the 18th century the play became very restricted. The players were placed near together, the feet remaining immovable and all strokes being delivered with a whip-like action of the wrist from a high hanging guard, the hand being held above the head. Blows on any part of the body above the waist were allowed, but all except those aimed at the head were employed only to gain openings, as each bout was decided only by a broken head, i.e. a cut on the head that drew blood. At first the left hand and arm were used to ward off blows not parried with the stick, but near the close of the 18th century the left hand grasped a scarf tied loosely round the left thigh, the elbow being raised to protect the face. Thomas Hughes's story, Tom Brown's School Days, contains a spirited description of cudgel-play during the first half of the 19th century. This kind of single-sticking practically died out during the third quarter of that century, but was revived as a training weapon for the sabre within some military and civilian academies, the play being essentially the same as for that weapon. The point was introduced and leg hits were allowed. George I (Georg Ludwig) (28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was Elector of Hanover from 23 January 1698, and King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 1 August 1714, until his death. ...
George II (George Augustus; 10 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death. ...
A statue of Thomas Hughes at Rugby School Thomas Hughes (October 20, 1822 – March 22, 1896) was an English lawyer and author. ...
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American President Theodore Roosevelt and his friend, General Leonard Wood were fond of this sport and used to emerge from a contest quite bruised from their rounds. Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, Jr. ...
Leonard Wood (October 9, 1860 – August 7, 1927) was a physician who served as the US Army Chief of Staff and Governor General of the Philippines. ...
In 1904 there was a singlestick event in the Olympics, but the sport was already in decline. By the beginning of the 20th century singlestick play had become much neglected, the introduction of the light Italian fencing sabre having rendered it less necessary, stickplay with wooden swords as a school for the cutlass remained common in some navies. The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...
French naval cutlass of the 19th Century A cutlass is a short, thick saber or slashing sword, with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge, and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard. ...
The art, occasionally practiced by a few fencing veterans in the UK, was revived in the Royal Navy in the 1980's. Within today's martial arts community, a growing interest in traditional European martial arts has revived interest in this particular form of weapon training. Fencing advertisement for the 1900 Summer Olympic Games This article is about the sport, which is distinguished from stage fencing and academic fencing (mensur). ...
The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). ...
European Martial Arts is the research and practice of ancient, medieval through to 20th century forms of armed and unarmed combat from the European continent. ...
See Also A pair of bokken A bokken (, bok(u), wood, and ken, sword), is a wooden Japanese sword used for training, usually the size and shape of a katana, but sometimes shaped like other swords. ...
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The Federschwert (feather sword, plural federschwerter) is a type of training sword used in Renaissance fechtschulen (martial arts schools) to train safely at full speed and power. ...
In terms of weapons and martial arts, a waster is typically a wooden replica of a particular weapon with which the user practices. ...
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Sources and external links - This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- The Scottish Combat Academy
- Broadsword and Single-stick, by R. G. Allanson Winn and C. Phillips-Wolley (London, 1898)
- Manual of Instruction for Singlestick Drill (London, 1887, British War Office)
- Schools and Masters of Fence, by Egerton Castle (London, 1892)
- The Sword and the Centuries, by A. Hutton (London, 1901).
- http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/Singlestick/
- http://www.ahfi.org/rules/singlestick.php/ejmas.com/jmanly/articles/2002/jmanlyart_wolf_0202.htm
- Supplier of Single sticks, http://www.woodenswords.com/
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