Irish shillelagh walking stick as a secret weapon 

+Mal Wal I have one too passed down.. such a great thing..

I should have one but when " the old man " ( my grandfather ) passed away, we had workers helping us clear out his house and one of them went home with it. Thankfully they didn't find the 200 year old black jack that was passed down to me but I'd rather have the shillelagh because it was a family heirloom. I've looked into buying another one but I want an old one like ours that got stolen but they're expensive.

Delighted to hear and know, please teach him the rudiments of the stick. In this strange world we inhabit, a guy who can 'swing a stick' properly might be armed and ready to protect himself, without ever thinking about it.....

Among the shillelagh that I presently own, and carry from time to time, my favourite is a slightly shorter and heavier one, which has a carved hand grenade design for the knot, or handle, which I have nicknamed "The Irish Hand Grenade", yeah....It is a beautifully weighted "weapon-and-walking stick", so to speak, with which I train in the traditional family system regularly with. Shillelagh fighting systems were always a complete martial system, the equivalent of something like the traditions that survive in the Phillipines in Kali, Arnis, Eskrima, Panantukan and Dumog. From what I have learnt, many aspects of the arts of "what you did if you dropped your shillelagh in a fight or battle, or were caught in a moment without it", or " the empty hands aspects" of the art, are heavily incorporated into modern western boxing to this very day, and I can always see many aspects and principles of what I have learnt and train in, both armed or unarmed, (as the principles, tactics and techniques remain very similar, either way), whenever I watch boxing, or spar/train with boxers. Many of them are fascinated with what I can show them of the seamless transitions into the original martial art therefrom. The closest systems that I have ever seen to the Irish systems are those of the Phillipines, and original Irish empty hand systems are very similar to 'Panantukan'.

@@jac9963 Wouild love to know where you train! I have trained stickfighting as a teen, and am finally beginning to study Irish Stick Fighting.

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us american irish have sticks. boomsticks lol! i still want a nice one though.

Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪😁

VEI DORJE Englishmen's quarterstaff is a example.

Its only competition would be the rock.

@@vampirevomit2414 Sounds like Hurling

@@veterankamikaze3591 hurling for woolly mammoth.....

it is maybe just a short one not a mini one if about 18 inches it is real my man

Thank you, Frances, for this insight!

Irish people killed him

I don't know about the Irish but in Scotland we have Sillelaghs called Kebbie sticks and they had lead in the knob end and we call them "loaded sticks" when filled with metal :-)

Compl33tR4nd0mZ noice

You can buy an authentic shillelagh online from the Olde Shillelagh Stickmakers. They are actually based in the town of Shillelagh, Ireland. Here is a link to their site www.oldeshillelagh.com/

Adhitya Ramaputra you can get them on eBay

They’re bog oak

I built over 100 on my own as a hobby, but I would never sell one of them, it is hard work to finish the wood, and I love them all too much. ;o)

William Jones it's first and foremost a cane/walking stick like any other. If you just so happen to know how to use one martially...

A shillelagh may not be legal to carry but a walking stick/cane is as long as it's used as support. In Ireland the cudgel was outlawed so it was simply lengthened turning it into a cane. It was no longer considered a weapon.

and here is another person asking a question for which they appear to already have the answer.

Generally, if an officer decides from evidence that the stick is actually an unlicenced offensive weapon then a prosecution will occur.

It's a walking stick but one which will do damage. I carry mine while walking the dog.

Long before man learned how to forge metal he used sticks with knots on the end to hunt and fight. The only weapon that's older is a rock.

It has been scientifically proven that a skelp of a blackthorn stick will not improve your health. Skelp= a blow, a smack.

Its a hurley and ball is sliothar.Its not a weapon the sport is like a mixture of field hockey baseball and lacrosse. GAA.ie

Cúchulainn cross between hockey and murder

did u not watch the vid? something seems wrong with the average person nowadays. u don't grasp the simplest things.

@@skyjuiceification Mmm

@@irishlongswordboland3114 Well the hurls were used historically as weapons