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Stick Boxing & Uneven Double Stick Sparring 16 Feb 2016
© 2017 James LaFond
NOV/2/17
From our experiments with competing with various stick matchups we have found that single stick 28-21length tends to be boring for the uninitiated and mostly enjoyed by the people who know what they are watching. For people new to viewing stick fighting the two short batons seems to be the most pleasing visual spectacle. Single stick bouts are—I think—the greatest fighter test, but end quickly or proceed slowly. Double stick with the longs ends up with one fighter down to a single stick pretty quickly.
The two shorts or a short and long double stick fight seems to have a high activity rate and longer duration with more core contact.
The video below is slow, half speed sparring, for the viewer to be able to examine technique and stroke chaining and for the fighter to be able to consider same and adapt in slow motion before amping up the tempo.
on combat
wife—
the sunset saga complete
z-pill forever
song of the secret gardener
broken dance
fiction anthology one
winter of a fighting life
menthol rampage
into leviathan’s maw
the year the world took the z-pill
your trojan whorse
the lesser angels of our nature
logic of force
son of a lesser god
fate
let the world fend for itself
orphan nation
the first boxers
the greatest lie ever sold
songs of aryas
taboo you
blue eyed daughter of zeus
ranger?
america the brutal
beasts of aryas
barbarism versus civilization
time & cosmos
honor among men
sorcerer!
dark, distant futures
uncle satan
predation
by the wine dark sea
hate
under the god of things
cracker-boy
triumph
advent america
night city
thriving in bad places
the fighting edge
when you're food
solo boxing
on the overton railroad
the combat space
the gods of boxing
fanatic
the greatest boxer
within leviathan’s craw
sons of aryas
book of nightmares
masculine axis
all-power-fighting
logic of steel