H. G. Lang The Walking Stick Method of Self-Defence 1923.pdf

In the early 1920's, Superintendent of Police in India

H.G. Lang introduced the Walking Stick Method of

Self Defense based upon the instruction of Swiss la

canne Professor Pierre Vigny. He published this

historic manual documenting his cane fighting system.

This manual, faithfully transcribed by Kirk Lawson

from the original (copyright held on text formatting and

image scans), contains 116 pages of text, 66 pages of

which is instruction by Lang in the original manual and

60 images illustrating his techniques.

Special thanks to Ralph Grasso for preserving this

historic text in his library. Additional thanks to Joseph

P. Sullivan for providing a copy to me.

Finally, special thanks to The Exiles (http://www.the

exiles.org) for hosting the original PDF transciptions.

This document is an attempt at a faithful transcription

of the original document. Special effort has been made

to ensure that original spelling, linebreaks, and

vocabulary are left intact, and when possible, similar

fonts have been used. However, it contains original

formatting and image scans. All rights are reserved

except those specifically granted herein.

You may distribute this document in whole, provided

that you distribute the entire document including this

disclaimer, attributions, transcriber forewords, etc., and

also provided that you charge no money for the work

excepting a nominal fee to cover the costs of the media

on or in which it is distributed. You may not distribute

this document in any forpay or pricemetered medium

without permission.

Special dedication to my wife Mylinda, my son

Christopher, my daughter Allison.

Kirk Lawson

THE “WALKING STICK”

METHOD OF

SELFDEFENCE

AN OFFICER

OF THE

INDIAN POLICE

LONDON:

ATHLETIC PUBLICATIONS, LTD.,

LINK HOUSE, 54 & 55 , FETTER LANE, E.C. 4 .

THE “WALKING STICK” METHOD

SELFDEFENCE