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0865682577 pdf Like everybody else who studied martial arts in the 1970s, I was fascinated by Hatsumi and Chamber’s classic book, Stick Fighting. As a long-time student of Danzan Ryu Jujutsu, I have always liked jointlocking, and the use of the 3-foot stick (hanbo) or cane to apply these locks was even more interesting. So, in the late 1990s, I began a systematic study of jointlocks and takedowns with the stick and cane. I collected techniques from more than 125 books, videos, DVDs, and CDs on the topic and drew from my own 35 years of martial arts training in jujutsu, iaido, aikido, Filipino Kali, and police arts. The techniques I collected: 1) specifically require a stick or cane to perform, 2) quickly become a joint lock, takedown, or unusual counterattack, and 3) are reasonably mechanically and combatively sound that is, the interception, manipulation, and finishing movements are practical, effective, efficient, more or less difficult to counter, and form a coherent technique. The result of this 7-year effort is a book titled The Stick and Cane in Close Combat: Jointlocks, Takedowns, and Surprise Attacks (301 pages Unique Publications, 2006). The book presents nearly 120 jointlocks, takedowns, chokes, holds, disarms, unexpected strikes, rolls, and exercises with the stick and cane in more than 750 photographs. These techniques are the largest and, I hope, the best collection of its kind. Unfortunately, Unique Publications published the book without my review or approval. As a result, it contains several editorial errors and horrific design features that detract from an otherwise sound presentation of the techniques.