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Raising Cane - The Unexpected Martial Art | 
 enlarge | Author: Octavio, Ramos
Publisher: Velluminous Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 149675
Media: Paperback
Pages: 188
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1905605102
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781905605101
Publication Date: November 28, 2006
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Product Description
When you think of a cane, do you think of an elderly person walking down the street, using the "stick" as a crutch? When author Octavio Ramos Jr. sees a cane, he sees a hard-hitting self-defense weapon with a crook and horn capable of incapacitating any opponent within a matter of seconds. This book teaches the art of one of the most unexpected self-defense tools ever created. Carried anywhere--into almost any situation--the cane rarely attracts undue attention...until you need it to.
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 Raising Cane, a good stick fighting manual October 24, 2008
Radcliffe Cutshaw (Knoxville, TN USA)
Raising Cane is how to fight with a cane. In addition, it covers stick fighting from Southeast Asia. The additions to cane fighting are the use of crook on a street cane. It contains drills that useful in learning the fighting techniques. It is a very comprehensive text on cane fighting. I think that a person learning cane can ignore the flashy additions from the Philippines, if desired. Also, I feel that learning them will aid conditioning and increase response options in a real encounter.
 raisning cane - the unexpected martial art October 19, 2008
Adrian P. Hosking (Cairns, Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
after 25 years of martial arts training including La Canne and Presas Arnis, I found the "Raising Cane" a simple read yet comprehensive manual offering the beginner and advanced student points of interest throughout. I would recommend it to all cross training students of the arts. Possibly real people depicted instead of drawings would draw an easier interpretation of the desired outcome of the prospective move.
Basic Cane Defensive Course September 8, 2008
Skip W. (Republic of Texas)
This is an excellent book for the beginner looking to use a good crook street cane for self-defense. The stick-figure drawings are easy to understand and follow. I use this book for the basics when I can't use my training DVD's from Dr. Joe Robaina at canedokaiusa dot com. Dr. Joe's DVD's are tops.. Still, this Raising Cane book is one of the easier and simplist to use and it works well when all of the electronic gadgets are not available.
Worthy despite shortcomings August 5, 2008
L. M. Jordan
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Raising Cane" (RC) documents the pedestrian and much underestimated art of cane defense. What could be more familiar than a crook-necked cane, or as accessible as 36" of hardwood resting at the ready in your dominant hand? Neither a knife nor gun has this advantage and the cane can be taken almost everywhere by old or young.
Topics covered: Basic terminology, stances, footwork, power strikes, flexibility (redondo) strikes, thrusts, blocks, use of the crook, use of the alive(free) hand, fighting scenarios, combinations and flows, disarms, conditioning/weight room work and a section on cane vs. knife. This is an ambitious undertaking in just 176 pages.
My first hours with this text were frustrated by the sometimes confusing illustrations employed to convey technique. I'm not sure if I'm doing the beginning strike series (Cinco Tiros) correctly. No doubt it is a challenging task to portray the dynamics of any martial art with static illustrations. And the style chosen--stick figure drawings viewed from a single vantage point--leave much to be desired. I simply could not decode some of the drawings, e.g. strong-side high-level strike (p48) and weak-side corkscrew thrust (p50). Both seem impossible as illustrated. In many illustrations there are missing critical frames showing the path the cane should take, thus leaving the reader to guess, fill-in or draw upon previous experience. Some drawings are mislabled (p117) and do not coordinate with text--poor proofing. (-1.5 stars)
RC desparately cries out for a companion demonstration DVD. All is not lost, the author does direct the reader to the Canemasters website where one can find instructional DVDs, which are not inexpensive, as well as a selection of robust canes which put to shame anything else I've been able to find.
A valiant effort but unnecessarily difficult to decode (3.5 stars).
Great Book! March 26, 2008
William Harris
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As someone who has had to use a cane at different times, I loved it.
I had tried to adapt Escima (stick fighting) as a defensive option when I had to use the cane with not much luck. I feel a little safer and will continue to use the workouts.
Thanks
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