Portuguese Combat Stick Jogo do Pau, bastão curto

Portuguese Stick Fighting

When known how to use it can defeat, someone with a knife and even more than one aggressor.
In this case we see training against one opponent. Always, play by the safe; develop good defences for an optimum counter attack. This type of strategy is the opposite for multiple attackers. In one to one combat you train for defence and then follow for counter attack, while for multiple opponents is a continuous attack strategy. Accurate notions on distance are of vital importance for this type of combat. Otherwise is non effective and useless. Also the kind of weapon is most important, or else the strikes wouldn't cause enough damage on the opponent, letting him unarm or closing the gap between you.
The best stick isn't necessary an iron pipe, but also plain rattan or other types of canes may not carry enough power to break bones. The best type of stick is larger at the tip,so it can carry a more momentum while not being excessive heavy for the wrist.
Effective technique is the one you don't need excessive uncontrolled power on a strike, but must be powerful enough to break your opponents bones, and at the same time keeping you balanced and in a perfect position for a defence or another immediate strike. Simply because in real combat, just making pain to an aggressor isn't enough for stopping him, and even if you have a lot of power in your strike but it misses, it's no good.

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[NewZealfighter]

how is this different from cutless sword fighting?

[lidador]

@NewZealfighter you don´t have a hilt to protect your handling hand, so when parrying the technique has to take that in consideration. That´s the big difference, if you have a good defense with your stick game, you definitively will have one with a sword. Not the same in the opposite sense...

[vegapulp1505]

Sou do Brasil e descobri sobre essa forma de combate hoje, numa conversa sobre artes marciais. Fiquei impressionado. Parabéns aos portugueses, é uma arte tão autêntica quanto a nossa capoeira.

[joaozoelae]

@gpduartecosta Obrigado!

[gpduartecosta]

@joaozoelae Boa noite! Pode treinar com o Mestre Nuno Russo no Ginásio Clube Portugues, perto do largo do Rato. Ele é simplesmente o melhor!

[joaozoelae]

Genial!!! Já tinha ouvido falar do jogo do Pau com bastão curto, mas eu julgava que era apenas “improviso” ou uma adaptação do Jogo do pau original... Alguém sabe onde posso praticar isto em Lisboa?

[NewZealfighter]

@lidador

good point

so , in that case there is an element of calibration

All fighters must have this ability to calibrate

In my opinion this is short sword fighting but what you say I agree a stick player would have an easier time to make the transition to sword

However,hilts are intellegent to have on a weapon

Do you switch hands at all in this style.Being a stick,it seems that would be the advantage over a blade that you can't grab

and what about locking techniques?

[nmarques7885]

@LutteFrancais Indigenous? You mean our celtic origins? Or are we just going depreciative here ?

[Cleitonrj93]

Legal.

[lidador]

Galhofa translates in modern Portuguese as "joking/goofing around", in ancient times that word meant that, It was a fight for ludic aspects in a way that you wouldn't kill or harm in a definitely way your opponent.

Has a manly sport it served mainly between villages strongest man contest.

Winning was a great deal of proud for the local community.