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arnisador
11-22-2002, 04:33 PM
An article in the current issue of Budo International magazine (http://www.budointernational.com/), now available in a North American edition also, has an article on Portuguese stick-fencing O Jogo do Pau. The stickfighter profiled is alleged to ahve defdeated Korean and Japanese masters using what is Portugal's only native martial art, a form of stickfighting based on fencing. They wear vaguely kendo-like armour and the few techniques shown resemble Japanese jo techniques to me. A video is available--indeed, pushing videos and DVDs seems to be an important raison d'etre for the magazine.

See also these links (http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=551).

Edited to fix URL. -Arnisador
arnisador
11-28-2002, 09:49 PM
This has what amounts to a short kata:
http://www.arscives.com/jogodopau/
arnisador
03-05-2003, 11:39 AM
Originally posted by arnisador
An article in the current issue of Budo International magazine (http://www.budointernational.com/), now available in a North American edition also, has an article on Portuguese stick-fencing O Jogo do Pau.

The now-current issue of this magazine has an article on Canary Islands staff fighting.
moromoro
03-29-2003, 02:28 AM
i have just asked questions about these arts in the WMA forum, i wonder if stick fencing is the right term for these arts???

terry
arnisador
03-29-2003, 01:11 PM
I don't know! Some FMA are certainly strongly influenced by Spanish fencing and retain something of the feel of it, but in general perhaps it isn't the best term.
moromoro
04-23-2003, 01:44 AM
the person in the budo international article about o jogo pau now has an official web site

thanks

terry
arnisador
08-31-2003, 11:01 PM
The current issue of Budo International magazine (#10) has a brief sequence of techniques from Jogo Do Pau.
westernwarrior
09-05-2003, 01:11 AM
Arnisador, your first link was dead for me. Here are some good ones. The second one has good links to links.
http://home.dbio.uevora.pt/~oliveira/Jogo_Pau/J_Pau.htm

http://artesmarciais.planetaclix.pt/jogodopau/
arnisador
09-05-2003, 11:01 AM
Fixed it--thanks for pointing it out to me. When we updated the site a while back many of the links to threads became broken. They are missing a "/forum" after the site's address.

-Arnisador
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arnisador
09-12-2003, 01:00 AM
Thread moved.

-Arnisador
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