Singlestick
Sign in to saveSinglestick is a martial art that uses a wooden stick as its weapon. It began as a way of training soldiers in the use of backswords (such as the sabre or the cutlass). Canne de combat, a French form of stick fighting, is similar to singlestick play, which also includes a self-defense variant with a walking stick.
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- Singlestick practice on the U.S.S. New York.jpg
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- U.S. sailors practice with the singlestick
- Martial art.name
- Singlestick
- Martial art.aka
- Single-stick, cudgels
- Martial art.focus
- Weaponry
- Martial art.hardness
- Full-contact
- Martial art.country
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Martial art.olympic
- Yes (1904 Summer Olympics only)
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- Country of origin
- Kingdom of Great Britain
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- Singlestick practice on the U.S.S. New York.jpg
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- Singlestick
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Singlestick is a martial art that uses a wooden stick as its weapon. It began as a way of training soldiers in the use of backswords (such as the sabre or the cutlass). Canne de combat, a French form of stick fighting, is similar to singlestick play, which also includes a self-defense variant with a walking stick.
==Weapon== The singlestick itself is a slender, round wooden rod, traditionally of ash, with a basket hilt. Singlesticks are typically around in length, and in diameter, and thicker at one end than the other, used as a weapon of attack and defence, the thicker end being thrust through a cup-shaped hilt of basket-work to protect the hand. It bears approximately the same relationship to the backsword as the foil to the small sword in being a sporting version of the weapon for safe practice.
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