ENglish Stick Fighting by Christophe Clugston

Man people are unaware of the long history of fighting and the war arts in the Occidental World. There is simply too much propaganda about the Oriental schools and their methods. The reality is that European soil saw more duels than Musashi ever dreamed of and there were many people with far more duels than Musashi.

Occidental Arts are based on performance/outcome--this equates to no time for tradition bound up slow to evolve arts and the mind sets behind those arts. There is a reason that the Western World went on to conquer the Modern World and this mind set is prevalent in the fighting arts, too.

One of the weapons that was considered to be very dangerous (and capable of being a swordsman if adroitly handled) was the Quarter staff (well this is the name in English so I will use it right now since I am not writing in German, Spanish or French for the bulk of this Blog).

Here is a video about basic use of the English Stick.



Check it out and stay with me as your source for the World's Strongest Self Defense continues with Christophe Clugston and only with me.

Muay Thai Gyms in Bangkok by Christophe Clugston

Well on a quest to find some new gyms in Thailand, I decided to spend some time in Bangkok (since I hub through the city a lot). This gym I am standing at is very close to Lumpinee Boxing Stadium. The trainer I had is an ex Cahmpion and very subtle on his technique advice (in Thai nor English). He did rounds of 3 minutes instead of the normal 5 mintues (since 3 mintues is the real time--the tempo ca be pushed far beyond what you can do in 5 minutes). Very hard training.

This was just oen of my stops. If you have questions about training, I can set up deals for you.

THe best training I have found in Thailand will be up and coming. So until then.

Train and keep pushing.