Stick-Fencing.

[arnisador]

An article in the current issue of Budo International magazine, 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.

Edited to fix URL. -Arnisador

 

[arnisador]

This has what amounts to a short kata:
http://www.arscives.com/jogodopau/

 

[arnisador]

Originally posted by arnisador
An article in the current issue of Budo International magazine, 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]

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]

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]

the person in the budo international article about o jogo pau now has an official web site

thanks

terry

 

[arnisador]

The current issue of Budo International magazine (#10) has a brief sequence of techniques from Jogo Do Pau.

 

[westernwarrior]

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]

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]

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-Arnisador
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