Obscure Martial Arts of Interest

**yli** · Posted On: 7/08/2011 3:23pm

To be fair, Turkey decriminalized sodomy in 1858, well before any European nation did so.

**doofaloofa** · Posted On: 7/08/2011 3:33pm

Originally Posted by yli

To be fair, Turkey decriminalized sodomy in 1858, well before any European nation did so.

What do the turks say?
'Women for babies, boys for love'

**burningflames** · Posted On: 7/08/2011 4:43pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Juego_de_Man%C3%AD

sounds kind of awesome

**yli** · Posted On: 7/08/2011 4:58pm

Originally Posted by doofaloofa

What do the turks say?
'Women for babies, boys for love'

Not Turks, the Turks are actually pretty heterosexual relative to their Arab and Indo-Iranic cousins. Your saying is a Pashtun saying.

**Eddie Hardon** · Posted On: 7/08/2011 5:53pm

Cumberland Wrestling.

so I've previously read in "Quartered Safe Out Here" auto-bio of George McDonald Fraser.

**Larus marinus** · Posted On: 7/08/2011 6:24pm

Turkish wrestling - are the leather pants a recent innovation for the purposes of modesty, btw?

Zulu stickfighting - I'd never actually looked it up before, but for some reason, I'd pictured it as involving thick, knobbly club-type sticks...

**yli** · Posted On: 7/08/2011 6:32pm

The leather pants are apparently a traditional thing. They'd be wearing Eastern European style nylon track pants if they were a modern thing.

**judoka_uk** · Posted On: 7/08/2011 6:38pm

Originally Posted by Larus marinus

Zulu stickfighting - I'd never actually looked it up before, but for some reason, I'd pictured it as involving thick, knobbly club-type sticks...

It does involve Knobkerrie, at least the type I did. You have a knobkerrie and in the non-knobkerrie hand a long stick with a little buckler style shield.

You use the combo of the buckler style shield and long stick to parry blows and for general defence and use the knobkerrie for whacking people.

When I did it the knobkerrie had, had the solid wooden end replaced with a gaffa taped lump of padding.

This is actually a photo of the people fighting in the hut at Lesedi where I had my stick fight

**Larus marinus** · Posted On: 7/08/2011 6:45pm

Yep, that's more like the picture I had in my head. I'd guessed that the iconic Zulu shield might be involved.

So, who wants to tell me about Croatian jailhouse fist?

**judoka_uk** · Posted On: 7/08/2011 6:51pm

Originally Posted by Larus marinus

Yep, that's more like the picture I had in my head. I'd guessed that the iconic Zulu shield might be involved.

Its nowhere as big as the traditional Zulu shield its about a foot from tip to tip and when I did it had about 2 inches of very modern, very western foam on the back which the grip was built into, to protect your hand from blows from the knobkerrie.

Here's a video of someone else at Lesedi doing some stickfighting. Although mine was a bit more serious on both sides than this, we still weren't really going for each other.