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A garrote can be made of different materials, including ropes, cloth, cable ties, fishing lines, nylon, guitar strings, telephone cord or piano wire. [2] [3] [4] A stick may be used to tighten the garrote; the Spanish word refers to the stick itself. [5] In Spanish, the term may also refer to a rope and stick used to constrict a limb as a ...
Baston (weapon) Rattan and bahi bastons and bangkaws being sold in Quiapo, Manila. The baston (Spanish and Filipino for "cane") is one of the primary weapons of Arnis and Filipino martial arts. [1] It is also known as yantok, olisi, palo, pamalo, garrote, caña, cane, arnis stick, eskrima stick or simply, stick.
The fight stick (Spanish: Lucha del garrote) is a folk sport practised throughout the Canary Islands. History [ edit ] The origins of lucha del garrote may date back to the aboriginal inhabitants of the islands prior to the Castilian conquest period of the early 15th century.
Juego del palo or banot ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxweɣo ðel ˈpalo], game of the stick; Guanche: banod) is a traditional martial art /folk sport of stick-fighting practiced in the Canary Islands. [ 1][ 2] It involves the combative use of a slender stick from 4 to 6 feet (1.2 to 1.8 m) long, wielded in both hands, and characterised by fluid ...
Description. Salto del pastor practitioners have developed a wide range of techniques to facilitate quick and agile movement across extremely difficult and dangerous terrain. These techniques range from pole-vaulting across crevices to the "dead drop" in which the practitioner leaps into space from heights of up to eight metres (26 ft), jamming ...
Juego del garrote (Venezuelan traditional, woodstick fencing) or juego de garrote larense ('Venezuela Stick fighting') is a Venezuelan martial art that involves machete, stick-fighting, and knife fencing. It is most associated with the Venezuelan state of Lara. References
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.
Historically, the garrote had been the preferred execution method in Spain, with firing squads used for political and military prisoners. [15] No executions took place from 1966 to 1972. [16] The Burgos trials of September 1970 sentenced six ETA members to death, but, following international pressure and criticism, Franco commuted the death ...