How to swing a Shillelagh 

Im new to shillelagh, but I've trained tomahawk for many years, and I was telling a friend I was teaching several months ago about this very feature of tomahawk fighting, that you have to return the strike along the same line that you threw the strike out on, like hammering a nail, so that you don't accidentally hook the weapon unintentionally, and that strike through hooking motions are counter-offensive when you want to hook on purpose.

Could you talk about Irish pikes, many look as though they came from tool pikes for firefighting, logging, and fishing.

Im a Gael on Tyneside. Iv just ordered a Blackthorn stick/ Shillelagh from Ireland. I will be studying you stick Fighting videos 👍

Thanks mate. I have a couple of blackthorns and was wondering

I suspect that native american ball headed clubs might have had similar forms as well - except them being shorter and heavier than the longer shillelaghs (maybe closer to the short shillelagh/clubs)

This was cool. Thanks

Excellent

thanks - while watching your vids (and others) I noticed the differences, just never followed through on it to this logical conclusion

Irish Balintawak.

I got myself a shillelagh from o’chadla. Where did you get yours?

I suppose you could treat the shillelagh like a short poll arm, thrusting, hooking, and bashing

Where do I find a great shillelagh to use?

Why do you hit each others sticks? Are you not supposed to try to hit each other?