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Pugil bouts are usually conducted with hard contact while wearing protective gear such as groin protectors, American football helmets, hockey gloves, and chest protectors or shin guards, such as those worn by baseball catchers. Some pugil sticks are made with integrated hand guards to reduce the potential for injury.
The following year, he developed the pugil stick system of close-quarters combat, using metal poles that were padded at the ends. [4] Inspired by boxing movements, his pugil sticks were intended to replace the outdated training that recruits of the Marine Corps had been receiving previously, allowing them to strike each other with more force ...
Shinai (Japanese Katana-like sword made of Bamboo strips, used in Kendo); Pugil stick (Heavily padded pole-like weapon); Foil (European fencing weapon); Federschwert (Steel sparring sword used in European martial arts)
Stick-fighting, stickfighting, or stick fighting, is a variety of martial arts which use simple long, slender, blunt, hand-held, generally wooden "sticks" for fighting, such as a gun staff, bō, jō, walking stick, baston, arnis sticks or similar weapons.
The punji stick or punji stake is a type of booby trapped stake. It is a simple spike, made out of wood or bamboo , which is sharpened, heated, and usually set in a hole. Punji sticks are usually deployed in substantial numbers. [ 1 ]
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Bōjutsu (Japanese: 棒術, lit. 'staff technique') is the martial art of stick fighting using a bō, which is the Japanese word for staff. [1] [2] Staffs have been in use for thousands of years in Asian martial arts like Silambam.