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Hi I'm Wayne ......I met you on the first page. I may as well tell you my 33 yrs of Martial Arts experience.

1st Degree Black Belt Defense-Ability Combat Hapkido

3rd Dan Combat Hap ki do (IMAUA)

Combat Cane

Canemaster Student

NICT craduate ( Nerve Impact Control Tactics)

Tai Chi practitioner

Lifetime member IDSA (International Disabled Self-Defense Association)

Lifetime member WBBB (World Black Belt Bureau)

Lifetime member ICMAUA (International Combat Martial Arts Union Association)

Member CCMAA (Canadian Combat Martial Arts Association)

Lifetime member CMAPA (Combat Martial Arts Practitioners Association)

Lifetime member SMAF (Shinja Martial Arts Federation

Lifetime member NPTA (National Progressive Taekwondo Association)

Lifetime member ( Combat Jujitsu)

I was coming home with a buddy from work who was driving one day in December 1984 .I was 30yrs old at the time with a wife and two kids.He drove off the road and hit a telephone pole hitting right on the front passenger side.I woke up in the hospital with a broken neck paralized from the neck down.I know there's a lot of people out there who knows exactly how I felt at that moment( no fun hey!) Well the doctors told me I would never walk again but being a stubborn Newfoundlander I didn't believe them.Slowly after 8 months in hospital and rehab with a lot of hard work,sweat,tears and prayers and with the grace of God I started to get some of my functions back. I went from a wheelchair to a walker to two canes down to one cane and a leg brace.I'm a walking quadripelegic I have limited function on my left side and considerable weakness on my right,I have nerve pain every day plus all the other little goodies that goes along with being a Quad. But one of things that helps me get through the day is Martial Arts.

Before the accident I trained in Karate and had reached brown belt level, of course after the crash I though I would never practice MA again. I tried everywhere to find a Sensai to help me continue my training but no one wanted to teach someone with a disability ,not where I lived anyway. So I only had one option to train myself. I bought every book and video tape I could get my hands on I studied Jujitsu,Karate,Hapkido,Aikido,Tai Chi,Krav Maga,Small Circle Jujitsu, Jeet Kune Do,Stick Fighting,Cane and knife fighting. I looked for any and every technique I could adapt to suite my disability I set up a heavy bag in my garage and practiced every day when the pain would let me.In the mean time i found a Tai Chi class I could join which really helped my balance. Not long after that I struck gold I found a Sensai in Kindai-Ha Shinto- Ryu Jujitsu who would take me on as a student I trained with him for about two years when my luck ran out and he got transfered,but before he left he referred me to another Jujitsu master where I continued my training.

The style I was in at the time I found was not really suited for me ,I wanted a more practical self defense than traditional style so I was lucky enough to find Master Schmidt and Grandmaster Pellegrini and Combat Hapkido.Also Master Temple of the CCMAA who has been a great Sensai.I guess the point I'm trying to make is not to let a disability stop you from making your dreams come true things don't come as easy as they once did but if you don't give up they can happen. Don't worry about not being able to perform the techniques the same as everyone else adapt and make them into your own.

Disabled not Defenseless!

Bye for now

Wayne

My absolute favorite self defense weapon is the cane, I have to use the cane daily because of my disability.Little do most people realize how dangerous a cane can be in the hands of someone who knows how to use it.Its the only weapon legal to carry any where in the world.

THE FIGHTING CANE
by Joe Hess

Because of the changes in our society and the laws that govern us, many persons are looking at weapons that they can carry on their persons and not be recognized as a deadly weapon. This weapon can be highly visible but not appear to be threatening. It has to be able to block, strike, control and protect. It has to be a weapon that any one sex can use without having to go through a long martial arts class to become proficient. This weapon has to possess strong characteristics, with speed and power both built into it. this weapon is The Fighting Cane.
From my first teachings in Gung-FU with my Sifu Pete Pernigotti, to my Goju training with Master Edward Verycken and Grandmaster Peter Urban, I have always had a love for weapons. The first weapon taught to me at an early age was the Sai. My Sifu would teach me training drills using weighted sais to build the power in my wrists, forearms, and shoulders. All of which would prove beneficial in later years for me as a World Champion in Kick-Boxing and as a Law Enforcement Officer. My love for weapons led me down a path of multiple weapons training, some in the Chinese arts and some in the Japanese arts. My desire to learn the short Jo and Long Bo are favorites in my teachings.
I have always loved weapons that can strike very fast, and can trap and re-direct as you control, such as the Nunchaku with it's twirling and striking capabilities and the sai, with it's in close fighting movements using traps, strikes and take-downs. By learning these weapons I have learned a great deal about centrifugal force and control of the weapon, and the extension I am using which comprises total weapon mastery. If you take the in-close fighting techniques of the Sai you will see that it is truly a fighting weapon of command. If you take the best of the Sai and the Bo together you will come up with the FIGHTING CANE.
Back in the early 1960's my Okinawan Sensei James Smithey who studied under Shimabuku introduced me to the cane, but my first actual offensive & defensive training came from Grandmaster Peter Urban, who used to carry around with him the Sheppards Crook. This long version of the cane was very unique. He created a series of defensive and offensive techniques that were uncanny. I have always loved the movements that were contained in this type of training, because it incorporated many techniques which were taught to me in prior styles and systems. The unique thing about the cane techniques was that I now had a weapon that I could carry in broad daylight and no one would ever question my carrying it. I could even take this weapon on board an airplane without being asked about it. The cane is truly a weapon where one cannot judge the book by it's cover. Hopefully after going through this text and observing the multitude of movements available to you when using a cane, you will be able to walk with more confidence.
The first time I had ever witnessed anyone actually using a Cane in a television series was with a show called "BATT MASTERSON" He would always execute simple movements re-directing the bad guys and coming out the winner.

CAPTIONS:
1-2. Subject approaches from the rear and places you into a rear body hold underneath your arms and locks you up
3-4. Quickly transfer the cane to your left hand and loop around the neck as you strike rearward with your left elbow trapping his right arm. As you pull him off balance and in-close to your back, Transfer the right hand around the cane and use both hands to pull forward as you choke him out.
5-6. As you choke him out begin to pull him over your right shoulder and take a short step back with your left leg, raise your right hand as you pull him off balance pulling with your left hand, deliver a knife hand strike to the side of his neck.
7-8. From a frontal attack as your attacker moves inward towards you quickly stop his forward motion by delivering a palm heel strike with your left hand to the center of his chest, at the same time hook the ankle pulling him off balance and backward onto the ground.
9-10. As the attacker hits the ground on his back, quickly deliver an overhead descending strike using the handle end of the cane to the center of his chest.
Any type of follow-up strike can be delivered at this time if needed.
11. When approached by two attackers, quickly put air space between you and them by attacking quickly, snap strike the first attacker int he groin forcing to fall to the ground.
12. Notice that the force of the blow comes from the snapping of the wrist* directly upward using the tip end of the cane.
13-14. Quickly move into the second attacker by blocking his punch and hooking his neck. Pulling him downward and off balance using both hands to deliver this pulling force.
15. As you pull the attacker off balance downward, quickly deliver a strong right leg side kick to the knee joint. (Notice that the strong hand is in front and at the top end of the cane for more power.
16. As an option you can deliver a quick palm heel to the side of the face of the second attacker as you remain pulling downward with your strong hand.
17. As your first attacker begins to rise again, finish him off by using a forward tip end poke to the center of the chest, deliver this poke with both hands driving him backward.