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Vigny method

calendar_month1898~

Also known as

Vigny stick fighting · Self-defence with a walking stick

Description

Self-defence method with the walking stick and umbrella, founded by Pierre Vigny around 1898 in Geneva from a heavily modified canne de combat. It used high, double-handed guards and strikes to the head, hands and joints. Vigny taught it at Barton-Wright's Bartitsu Club and at his own London academy; Barton-Wright described it in Pearson's Magazine (1901), and H. G. Lang's book The Walking Stick Method of Self Defence (1923) drew on it.

Related styles

Longest documented lines

  1. 2 generations

Tags

stick-fighting · self-defence · weapons · bartitsu

Sources

“In 1923, Superintendent H. G. Lang (dates unknown), a British officer of the Indian Police, wrote a book entitled The Walking Stick Method of Self Defence, which drew largely from the Vigny system.”
— Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation info

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