Stick-fighting
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Stick-fighting, stickfighting, or stick fighting, is a variety of martial arts which use blunt, hand-held "sticks" for fighting, most typically a simple, non-lethal, wooden staff or baton. Schools of
Cane and stick fencing in French encyclopedia.
An artwork depicting stick fighting
Engravings at the Abusir necropolis showing stick fighting
Egyptian men from Upper Egypt performing Tahtib, a traditional stick-fighting game and folk art practiced mainly in southern Egypt.
Quarterstaff
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A quarterstaff, also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European polearm, which was especially prominent in England during the Early Modern period.
Stick-fighting
…training before practice of the more dangerous metal weapons. Traditional European systems of stick-fighting included a wide variety of methods of quarterstaff combat, which were detailed in numerous manuscripts written by masters-at-arms. Many of these methods became extinct but others adapted and survived…
1921 illustration of Robin Hood and Little John fighting with quarterstaffs