French Martial Arts

[BoneKracker]

The ancient French martial art known as Canne de Combat (which translates to "smacking each other with twigs, no poking allowed"):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMdZjyU7i54
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[pjp]

First thing that came to mind after reading your title was "probably involves smacking."
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[BoneKracker]

In all fairness, one must note that the French have not always been pussies. During Medieval times, they had well-developed martial arts with sword, pole-arm, and kick-boxing rooted in even earlier mastery of stick-fighting and kick-boxing, possibly dating back to tribal times.

Their martial arts were documented during the late Middle Ages, but alas, they became lost arts in The Pussifications (following World War I and World War II). However, French military, foreign service personnel, and merchants learned different martial arts from the sub-humans they were blessing with Civilization and Enlightenment in Southeast Asia. These try tried to call their own by applying the old written rules and documentation from the lost French martial arts. What you see here is one of those results.

The real, original Canne de Combat probably much more closely resembled Rapier technique. The staff twirling you see toward the end of the video clip is much more characteristic of East Asian or Indo-Chinese martial arts, where staffs were small and made of light wood. Staff fighting in Europe probably evolved from swinging clubs, and later war axes and pole-arms. These are heavy weapons, and the technique used in the sporting version of the art would reflect that. One can easily see the pole-type weapons used in Europe (e.g., the Guissarme, Glaive, or the Bec de Corbain) have always been heavy, and one-ended. This twirling and two-ended use of a staff is not European.

They did, however, know how to use the weapons they had. Contrary to what most historians today say, I do not believe it was the cross-bow that put an end to the use of mounted, armored knights. I believe it was the use of pole weapons with sturdy steel hooks, used for dismounting armored knights.

At any rate, it's rather pathetic to see them doing this pussy-spanking now (and being nationalistic about it), after having once been mighty warriors.
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[notageek]

Guy 1: OMG OMG he's got a cane. Must jump!
Guy 2: OMG OMG he's got a cane. Must jump!
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[sikpuppy]

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[BoneKracker]

[aCOSwt]

[BoneKracker]

I studied Judo for a little while. I accidentally knocked the wind out of my instructor. Judo is for pussies, like smacking each other with twigs.

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[notageek]

Right, so when it comes to self-defense, a Frenchman would just employ someone to do it for him.
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[Prenj]

When those other gallic chiefs betrayed Vercingetorix, it all wen't downhill from there... as documented in Asterix.

[notageek]

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[LoTeK]

what disturbs me is that the french celebrate WW2 every year, but the versailles treaty is definitely a cause for WW2 and they didn't do very much (to say it very very politely )

@aCOSwt:
you obviously have to fight here alone against all other like me in the vegetarian-threads
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[LoTeK]

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[sikpuppy]

[LoTeK]

you know, there won't be another big war, because we humans are enlightened now. We have democracy, human rights and we are a very advanced if not perfect species in every way... so we don't have to prepare them for war...
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[sikpuppy]

GOSUB is better, that way you can go to a "war" subroutine and RETURN to peace afterwards. That's if someone doesn't BREAK the entire thing with a bunch of nukes.

Do you want to play a game?

[Prenj]