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Why?
Why learn Irish Stick Fighting? There might be more positive reasons than you think...
- something unique with a practical tool that is multi-purpose
- Training tool is easily (and of course legally) transportable.
- Can be elevated to combat sparring with a partner wearing protective gear to show where weaknesses and failures in training appear.
- Not a ton of space required although nothing beats being out in nature with a training stick.
- Solo work - mobility benefits. Tells you about how your body wants to and doesn't want to move :)
- Low to high energy exercise.
- As a last resort - possible self defence using a force multiplier.
- Like most martial arts, gets your brain going on what you can do and how to put things together.
- Stick can cost nothing if harvested or improvised...up to a classic heirloom Shillelagh (Blackthorn or Oak).
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Two weapon systems across centuries:
• Irish Stick Fighting — the art of the shillelagh.
• Italian Longsword — Historical European Martial Arts.
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