some western quarterstaff links

[Stickgrappler]

some western quarterstaff URLs:

---Manuals---

http://www.savateaustralia.com/Essays/the great stick1.htm

The Great Stick - a chapter from Captain Alfred Hutton's "Cold Steel" (1889)

http://ejmas.com/jmanly/jmanlyart_mccarthy_0901.htm

"Quarterstaff:A Practical Manual" by Thomas A. McCarthy (1883)

http://ejmas.com/jmanly/jmanlyart_a-wp-w_0901.htm

The Quarterstaff - a chapter from "Broadsword and Singlestick" (1898)

http://ejmas.com/jmanly/jmanlyart_Phillipps-Wolley_1101.htm

Singlestick - a chapter from "Broadsword and Singlestick" by R.G. Allanson-Winn and C. Phillipps-Wolley (1898)

---Articles---

http://ejmas.com/jmanly/jmanlyart_wolf2_0801.htm

"A Grand Assault at Arms" by Tony Wolf (2001)

http://www.alliancemartialarts.com/quarterstaff.htm

"The Manly Art of Quarter-Staff" by Tony Wolf (2002)

http://ejmas.com/jwma/jwmaart_docherty_0501.htm

A Brief History of the Quarterstaff by Frank Docherty (2001)

http://fight.sphosting.com/docherty.html

Interview of Frank Docherty done by Hao Wong

http://blackbeltmag.com/archives/blackbelt/1983/jan83/western/western.html

Black Belt magazine has an article

---Retailers and craftspeople---

http://www.celtic.net/cavleather/

Cavalier Leatherworks Singlesticks - fine leather basket hilts

http://www.woodenswords.com/

Purpleheart Armory - a great selection of singlesticks

---Organizations---

http://www.quarterstaff.org/frame.html

a UK org with some vidclips

---WSFF member schools, clubs and associations---

http://nedo.hypermart.net/index.html

The Tri-Cities Academy of the Sword - including classical sabre, singlestick and Great Stick instruction

---Other forms of European stick fencing---

http://ejmas.com/jwma/jwmaart_wolf_0500.html

Juego del Palo - Stick fencing of the Canary Islands

 

[arnisador]

I posted some links to non-Oriental stickfighting styles here.

 

[Chiduce]

Thanks a lot Stickgrappler! Ahh, the quarterstaff; my first intorduction to the martail arts. Brings back memories of training in the boy scouts! :asian: Ami Tou Fou: Sincerely, In Humility; Chiduce!