So why do you discount most of his techniques? I did not know that was your guy, when I found the video that I did. However, you already deemed most of what he does as useless. You found one technique he does, that you like.... but you discount his one handed strikes, his hanbo style strikes, his cane style strikes.... everything he does, with the exception of the one you like. Since you already mastered that.... you would have no reason to train there... Especially when they worked on the one handed stuff or the hanbo style stuff or.... Don't tell me you would go train with him, while at the same time telling me how useless you deem most of his techniques.
A cane could be plenty useful in a plane... if you learn to use it as something other than a katana. But, you would have to learn the one hand stuff and the two thumbs in stuff.
Understand... some of the folks trying to give you advice, have more decades worth of actual training with these weapons than you have years in self training with your cane. Heck some have double or triple the decades of training to your year and a half. The videos you show of your mastery of the cane... is clear evidence that you do not understand. You have shown the video of the guy you are copying... but that only shows how much you don't understand. The advice given here has been in an effort to help you become more effective.... and it has come from people with multiple decades of training and teaching....
But hey, you found your technique, and you are happy with it. I hope it works for you, I hope your attacker announces his intentions in advance so you have time to assume your posture... I hope he stays 6 feet away from you, so that you can employ your technique... I hope he does not take advantage of the openings you have when you do your version of the technique... I hope you never have to use your technique to find out how effective it really is...
I have been practice more on striking with both thumbs facing inward like the video your posted(which I cannot find you post). Here is the SAME video you posted, I found it on youtube:
I know you really don't take me serious and might not even read what I wrote. But I just feel like reponding as you accused me that I refused to listen while I already showed you I did that already in the video. I can tell you, it is very hard to hit hard with both thumbs facing inwards. Yes, it is for close distance, but there's just no power. Even in the video, the guy even demo and said it cannot hit that hard at 8:45. He even agree with me.
Like I said I showed in my video I practice this similar move 9 months ago already. Actually the advantage of using a crook cane is I can hit harder with the crook end as shown in my video. I actually do it like punching using the crook end to stick it into the bag. That can hit quite hard. NOT WITH A STRAIGHT STICK like in the video. You ever try that before you posted the video?
Also, have you ever try swinging the stick reverse hand like in the video starting at 3:45? That was made famous by the movie series in the 60s by a blind samurai holding the sword that way. You try hitting like that. It might be good for sword as you cut and slice with it. If you ever try with a blunt stick, it's NOT very useful and the movement is limited. I tried that after I watched that just for the hell of it. It DIDN'T work for stick or cane. Might look good in demo, it just doesn't work.
Now, the thrusting straight in with the tip of the stick does have power, that you can see in my video that I used that already. One thing the video gave me a new idea. If it happens to fight in open area, sometimes, I can let go my left hand and swing with the right hand using the body to swing. One hand gets a longer reach and with wide swing, it can hit hard. Just have to watch out stick flying off hand if misses.
Notice, even the guy was NOT very good hitting the mattress with reverse hand at 8:30. He only used the arm, no body rotation to add to the force. I spent more time practice striking reverse hand motion with two hands. It is so so much harder to swing good reverse vs the normal forward motion swinging from right to left. That's some what similar to the idea of switch hitter in baseball. I know it's a lot harder, so I put 75% of my practice hitting from left to right to practice the body movement. I want to be able to hit hard from both sides. This is the kind of thing I concentrate in practice.
I might not go to any class, but I do think, watch and try to see whether it is useful before I discard anything. I only reject AFTER I try it. I find too many style just concentrate on movement that looks nice rather effective. Hanbo reminds me a little of Irish stick fight that more trying to be different than effective. Like Irish stick bounce off the elbow to pull back the stick after striking, they switch hands also. To me, they are just too fancy than practical. If I do single hand stick, Escrima is about the only one that is practical and more effective in my opinion. I did started with that for like 3 or 4 months as shown in the video. I dropped that after I saw the video competition that two guys wacked each other stupid, they were still standing after the fight. Be that they wore some protection, but for cry out loud, there's no stopping power with a light weight rattan stick!!!! One need a heavier stick to do damage. So I went to two handed since. Follow the logic and science, this is NOT rocket science. One doesn't have to be an expert to see from videos and poke holes on their technique.
