Cane as a weapon pdf

The first is the overall enlarged curved handle , including a slightly beveled beak for applying a pressure point. Second, the cane shaft is smooth , moving predictably through the hands and without the texture of a heavily carved piece that may cause you to loosen your grip. Two lightly knurled handgrips located at the upper and lower shaft allow the user to take a balanced blocking, parrying, or thrusting grip, with each hand spaced evenly about 2 feet apart, or slightly wider than shoulder width.

The foot may be removed and the tubular shaft used for storage of small items , from practical items like cash and a spare key to more emergency-related items like a small knife and paracord for rigging a cane splint. Travel advisory: When visiting court houses, federal buildings, or other restrictive areas, use professional courtesy, common sense, and expect to have the cane passed through airport checkpoints and scanners. One international commercial airline captain confirmed that travelers should expect no delays from a walking cane, although flight attendants may offer to store the cane securely in the overhead above your seats.

Check TSA regulations and specific airlines for more rules on its legality. So just keep this tip in mind and play it straight. For generations, the cane in various forms is commonly found in venues of all kinds due to its practical and innocuous appearance. And while a pretty carved cane may look stylish, serious cane practitioners almost universally favor the traditional hook or curved handle, compared to the ball-end knob or the right-angle style grip of cane.

The hook-style handle can also make life easier simply by allowing you to hook the cane temporarily on your arm while using your hands for something like phone dialing. Below: Attacked with a baseball bat, Sung Cho uses the cane to deflect the strike. Then with crook to the neck, he forces the attacker down for a finishing strike. Weapon retention rules apply.

Should someone grab your cane tip, break it free from them by rotating against the thumb, snap down, and twist the tip away the same way you would break free from a grab. Practice this with an instructor. Perhaps the cane is interpreted as a sign of weakness or vulnerability. In those situations, a cane may enable you to maintain a safe circle around you and a loved one, to keep a threat from escalating, thereby reserving the blade or firearm for a life-threatening response.

Below: Jon Capriola of Sarasota drives a stick into the face of this punk trying to jack his Ferrari and unmellow his sunset cruise. Should the cane accompany someone who also has a concealed carry pistol or knife?

We may occasionally find ourselves in a temporary, non-permissive environment. In certain situations, we may be forced to remain holstered and concealed due to the immediate presence of innocent bystanders, or unknown foreground or background.

With training, the aggressive cane carrier can distance, deflect, circle, or even take down a knife attacker, possibly drawing immediately after for a downward angled shot or when the background is safe. And should such a situation escalate to the point where deadly force is justified, say against multiple armed attackers and the use of your pistol or blade is called for, in those extreme kill-or-be-killed circumstances, the cane may even buy you a fraction of a second or a little distance to keep you from getting tied up in a close-range encounter, enabling you to shift position, draw, and connect with a shot.

In the event a longer shot is required, the cane can provide an instant monopod, allowing the good guy to take a knee and rest the pistol across his opposite wrist.

Below: A rear bear hug is broken up by direct pressure downward on the hands using the beveled point of the cane handle. This requires a small shift in thinking, especially in the USA, where the cane is associated with the elderly and infirm, and may flag you to predators as a potential pushover. Use your non-threatening demeanor to your advantage and raise a little cane. David H. He may be reached via email at [email protected]. We're now offering a free digital copy of the OffGrid Outbreak issue when you subscribe to the OffGrid email newsletter.

Sign up and get your free digital copy Click to Download! Subscribe to the Magazine. Endicott, U. Retired , Past-President.

Cunningham served first on a board to examine candidates for the position of Civil Engineer in the Navy; before the successful candidates were appointed, however, he himself, on September 29th, , was given a permanent commission. On October 5th of that year, he reported to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, where he served until November 6th, , being then detached and ordered to the Naval Station, New Orleans , La. This was a new station just bring established, and Mr.

Cunningham was the first Civil Engineer officer, thus being given the opportunity to lay out the engineering works from the start. On April 3d, , he was detached from the New Orleans Station and ordered to the Naval Academy , where he served until June 9th, , and from there he was again ordered to the Bureau of Yards and Docks.

On March 17th, , he was commissioned with the rank of Lieutenant in the Corps of Civil Engineers. This duty required great tact and diplomacy, and it was on this account that Mr. Cunningham was selected for the work, which necessitated his maintaining headquarters in Washington , and visiting the various Navy Yards, keeping the Department informed as to the status of the various public works, and co-ordinating the ideas of the Yards with those of the Department.

On July 10th, , Mr. Shortly afterward he had a severe nervous breakdown, and on November 17th, , was ordered to sick leave, and did not return to actual duty until June 16th, He never fully recovered from this illness, although he performed lighter duties practically up to the time of his death, his principal assignments after this being at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, HI.

Cunningham had supervised the construction of the 16 ton steel floating dock for the New Orleans Station. He became much interested in docks of this type, and, at a later date,. He was, indeed, of an inventive turn of mind and secured patents on several of his ideas, one of the best known in the Navy being that for a coal-tar paint. Cunningham was affectionately known as "Andy" by his friends and associates, and was universally liked.

His genial nature, combined with his diplomatic spirit, caused him to be much in demand on boards of officers for the adjustment of disputes or for changes in contracts. While at the Naval Academy , he was the champion fencer of his time, and he maintained his interest in this sport up to the time of his severe illness. While in Washington he was a member of the Washington Fencers Club, and when he was at the Navy Yards he stirred the younger men to a revival of the fencing game.

He was looked on by the entire Navy as an authority on this subject, and was also consulted by the Army at one time, in connection with the modification of the Army saber.

As a fencer, he was also interested in singlestick, and was the author of a book entitled "The Cane as a Weapon. Cunningham was married, at Middleville, N". After the section on parries, there follows a series of sections on the following topics: return attacks, counter parries, feints, passing the cane and footwork. Each of these sections covers its topic in isolation; there is no discussion of how the topic at hand is integrated with any of the other previously covered topics.

Additionally, these sections are relatively abstract as they tend not to discuss a topic in a specific application to a defined situation, but generally, without a context.

However these sections, far from presenting any specific curricula, discuss the tactical considerations of the three guards Left, Right and Double , in the directions named in the section titles. Having reviewed the vast majority of the text, there are still no specific lessons, or concrete response sequences to deal with defined attacks. Following the systematic nomenclature for striking and the analysis of target selection for strikes, CAAW moves to the topic of parries.

The presentation of the basic parries by ACC, which have been discussed in previous posts, is a perfect example of the formulaic or conceptual approach. For Example:. Its transmission should be possible without a fencing master, and its principles so simple and correct that even one not greatly skilled can teach others to become skillful.

ACC clearly anticipated that many who were reading his works would be engaged in self-study, which was clearly acceptable in his thinking. In fact the possibility that such self-study may lead to individual differences in style was anticipated and encouraged by ACC. Correct understanding and execution should be the aim rather than entire uniformity and the reduction of the matter to a mere form of drill. Underlying rules and principles are described which can then be applied to specific concrete examples, much the way a physicist can apply the concept of friction to diverse physical phenomenon.

Just sampling the topic headings of the relevant portion of CAAW is illustrative of this style outlining format added by author :. Kind and Direction of Blows. Upper Cuts. Diagonal Cuts. Circular Cuts. Back-handed Cuts. Character of Cuts. Snap Cuts. Half-arm Cuts. Full-arm Cuts. Swinging Cuts. Cuts in general. Points of Attack. ACC characterizes strikes abstractly, by direction, mechanical aspects of delivery, and then finally are targets applications discussed.

It would appear that ACC is creating a classification scheme, or nomenclature, for cane or stick strikes, which is quite capable of being applied generally. If this was unintentional on the part of ACC, it still works well as a very comprehensive system of description for single-handed cane or stick strikes. Andrew Chase Cunningham. At the age of 21 he graduated from the United States Naval Academy , and was in active service in the Navy until Cunningham resigned from the Navy to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from which he graduated in Available records indicate that, for the rest of his working career, Cunningham was employed as a Civil engineer, eventually coming to work for the Navy in that capacity.

Cunningham was apparently quite productive and accomplished in his chosen career as indicated by the fact that he held six engineering patents. Sunday, September 20, Left Guard Video. Posted by Chris Amendola at AM comments:.