I can't tell if you're showing that to me as a joke or as a serious answer. Who exactly is that guy? I can tolerate lack of charisma if the information he's giving is legit. No offense to him, and I do hope he doesn't read this.
Why you think it's a joke? I've been practicing two hand stick with a 20oz cane for 2yrs. It's very hard to find a style for it, most of what he in the video talked make sense except he only hit on heavy bag that help to stop the swing, try swing in air and see how fast you can recover and swing the second hit. Swinging like him might pull you off balance if you miss. I practice using the butt and all that like he said. I came up on my own, but it's similar. Not just swinging the stick alone.
I watched Japanese katana, bokken, philipino escrima and tapados, irish stick. Other than single handed escrima, this is as good as the others!!!
To me, most are for fighting in open space which is very different from real life self defense. They swing wide. Good way to find out is to practice in living room or other smaller rooms. If you don't hit anything while you really practice, then it's good(good luck with that!!)
I honestly can NOT find any style that I am willing to actually go to school, I ended up taking in techniques from escrima but using two hands, learn some striking moves from Japanese Katana(similar to some of the demo of bokken) but not the slicing moves. For foot work, I just use kick boxing type that I learned before and make it up on my own.
I gave up escrima after I watch a competition video where two guys hitting each other STUPID from beginning to end. No defense, just smacking each other stupid. Both standing at the end!! Yes, they did wear protection, but still standing after 50 or 60 solid landing? I DROPPED escrima since that day and went to two hand with heavier stick.
This is the video I find most useful and I am still practice it. This is by a founding member here Lamont Glass.
It might look very simple, it's been over a year, I am still practicing it almost every day. It's like punching, everyone can punch, BUT to do a really good punch, it's NOT so easy and takes a lot of time to put the legs, waist, shoulders and hands together. With casting, it is A LOT MORE COMPACT, it doesn't swing wild, I even practice in bathroom small space. I pull the stick back after reaching the target instead of letting the stick swing the whole circle. That really make it compact. It always looks flashy and nice swinging wide, good for showing. But if you use it in restaurant of some other confined space, you might end up hitting something on the way instead of the target.
I am not an expert, but I put two years into this already. I hope I can find something I like enough to actually go to school, nothing comes close. I refuse to waste my time doing those forms and stuffs.
JMHO
