[MR] Kinda off topic?

[Garth G. Groff]

Friends,

You certainly can kill someone with a rattan stick, if you know how. As 
an MP I trained with the baton and the 36" riot stick (which are 
hardwoods, but that doesn't matter here). There were blows we were 
specifically trained NOT to strike, including end jabs to the head, 
throat or sternum. A rattan stick, an umbrella, or even a rolled 
newspaper, can deliver lethal damage with an end jab if enough force is 
behind the blow.

I suspect that this is one reason we don't allow quarter-staves in SCA 
combat.

Back to the middle-ages for me now.

Kind regards,


Mungo Napier, Archer of Mallard Lodge

logan wrote:
> take one heck of a shot to incapacitate a guy with rattan.  given how hard
> it is to even break a bone with it because of its inherent flexibility
> beating a man down would be an impressive task indeed!  better to own a gun
> for the bad guys i think.
>
> ;^)
> logan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Steven
> Chang
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:19 PM
> To: Dexter Guptill
> Cc: Merry Rose
> Subject: Re: [MR] Kinda off topic?
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> Rattan would have incapacitated the guy but not killed him. I don't
> think it was necessary to kill the guy.
>
> While I agree justice is served. Life is precious.
>
> On 9/16/09, Dexter Guptill <3fgburner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Why rattan? The real katana seems to have worked pretty well.
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