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- noun Alternative form of
stickfighting .
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Jacob Zuma is a former goatherd, a master of traditional Zulu stick-fighting, a resistance hero, a one-time spymaster, a graceful dancer, and the father of some 20 children.
Jacob’s Ladder 2009
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Jacob Zuma is a former goatherd, a master of traditional Zulu stick-fighting, a resistance hero, a one-time spymaster, a graceful dancer, and the father of some 20 children.
Jacob’s Ladder 2009
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Jacob Zuma is a former goatherd, a master of traditional Zulu stick-fighting, a resistance hero, a one-time spymaster, a graceful dancer, and the father of some 20 children.
Jacob’s Ladder 2009
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Jacob Zuma is a former goatherd, a master of traditional Zulu stick-fighting, a resistance hero, a one-time spymaster, a graceful dancer, and the father of some 20 children.
Jacob’s Ladder 2009
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You know, Bartitsu — the 19th century “gentlemanly art of self-defense,” AKA Victorian stick-fighting … coming to Seattle via seminar on March 6, at the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts.
good news/bad news 2010
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You know, Bartitsu — the 19th century “gentlemanly art of self-defense,” AKA Victorian stick-fighting … coming to Seattle via seminar on March 6, at the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts.
Calling Seattle-Area Victoriana Buffs lithera 2010
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The term escrima has been applied to stick-fighting as done in the Philippines – it is said by some that an escrima or arnis master can use even a simple ballpen as a martial arts weapon in stick-fighting and come out the winner.
Forbidden Uniform | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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Harundo was a form of stick-fighting, and these were their weapons.
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Zuma later explained: "I spoke of how when I was a boy we still trained in stick-fighting, and if you saw a boy who was effeminate, a sissy, he was beaten up because everyone had to learn to fight and be strong."
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But the Bartitsu Society is the first site to put together the full picture of this interesting martial art - a hybrid of boxing, savate, stick-fighting and jiu-jitsu - that Barton-Wright promoted around 1899-1901.
Bartitsu Ray Girvan 2005
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