The wooden fighting sword-sticks of Crete

[Marc]

Originally Posted by fearn

Great to see these! Anyone have an example of the magila from the Canary Islands?

Just to clarify, "makila" is the Basque word for "stick", and also a specific type of it :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makila

http://www.argia.com/makilak/makopaes.htm

There's also a Basque combat school using a big stick (quarterstaff-type), also called "makila", but it has nothing to do with the cane-type stick mentioned above.


On the other hand, the Canary Islands stick fighting is called "Juego del palo Canario" (Canary Stick Play):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juego_del_Palo

http://www.palocanario.com/Historia%20JPC%20INGLES.htm


I didn't know about the Cretan stick fighting. The specialized shape of the stick is fascinating. Thank you very much for pointing this up, Eftihis!