Louie
28-Feb-2004, 01:14 AM
Have you come across existing WMA masters?:
Since I started researching in Scotland in 2001 I've managed to find:
Stickfighting (single-stick) was still taught as a training weapon for the sabre by at least one fencing master (Prof Bert Bracewell) in Scotland well into the late 80's, early 90's
The Single-stick art was revived in the Royal Navy by Locker Madden back in the 1980's, he's now retired but works for Aberdeen Uni (and is still single-stick Champ)
Willie Baxter, backhold wrestling coach practiced dirk knife-fighting 50 years ago.
John Wesencraft, one of the few persons to learn the combative 'Dirk Dance'
which resembles a kata/dance much like Indonesian Silat
These guy's are in their 70's and don't see themselves as the holders of styles or systems, they don't advertise and just do what they do.....
I'm hoping there are a lot more....
Louie :eek:
Since I started researching in Scotland in 2001 I've managed to find:
Stickfighting (single-stick) was still taught as a training weapon for the sabre by at least one fencing master (Prof Bert Bracewell) in Scotland well into the late 80's, early 90's
The Single-stick art was revived in the Royal Navy by Locker Madden back in the 1980's, he's now retired but works for Aberdeen Uni (and is still single-stick Champ)
Willie Baxter, backhold wrestling coach practiced dirk knife-fighting 50 years ago.
John Wesencraft, one of the few persons to learn the combative 'Dirk Dance'
which resembles a kata/dance much like Indonesian Silat
These guy's are in their 70's and don't see themselves as the holders of styles or systems, they don't advertise and just do what they do.....
I'm hoping there are a lot more....
Louie :eek: