Greetings from Ireland Maxine, you are doing an excellent job of keeping the old art alive. The -eacht at the end of Bataireacht......is often appended to the end of words to indicate 'doing the activity of' .. ....in this sense its like Japanese 'the way' or Do in Ju-do or karate-do. Bata = stick. Bataireacht =the way of the stick. Japanese Jo-do or Tanbo-do ( for the short stick.)
I have been intrigued for many years with the apparent similarities of the shillelagh (my wife's ethnic heritage) and the Carpathian Mountain Axe, also referred to as a shepherd's axe (a walking stick axe from my cultural heritage). It's interesting to hear that the shillelagh came from a walking stick axe. The Carpathian Mountain Axe is shared by regional cultures in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Romania and Hungary (which all have their own specific terms to refer to it). I have not found a living tradition of its actual use per-se, but I have observed some techniques preserved in the men's folk dances of Hungary, Poland & Ukraine. Also in these countries, it was s symbol of resistance & rebellion.
P.S., I do know of a partially preserved system of 19th-century Hungarian Huszar Fokos (FOH-kohsh) taught in Irving, Texas, USA, by Russ Mitchell who learned it in Budapest in the 1990s; it's a military 'battle ax,' a longer shaft version of the Carpathian Mountain Axe, and it's typically used with 2-hands. He has published this in his 2019 text ""Hungarian Hussar Sabre and Fokos Fencing." For the record, my walking stick art is the Japanese Uchida-ryū_Tanjō-jutsu - late 19th-century walking stick vs. Japanese 'Katana' in the form of a wooden Bokutō.
They would put the sticks up the chimney to season them that's how they became blackened. Goose fat was used to waterproof them if you could afford boot polish you might use that .Anything you could get your hands on basically.
Good presentation. Francis McCaffrey interviewed a fellow named Simon Keegan who has a school for his family bata style as well (I think he’s in either Ireland or England)
BTW, guys, I am certainly enjoying your video clips & shorts!
Glad you like them!
Greetings from Ireland Maxine, you are doing an excellent job of keeping the old art alive. The -eacht at the end of Bataireacht......is often appended to the end of words to indicate 'doing the activity of' .. ....in this sense its like Japanese 'the way' or Do in Ju-do or karate-do. Bata = stick. Bataireacht =the way of the stick. Japanese Jo-do or Tanbo-do ( for the short stick.)
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Thank you very mutch for this ❤️🔥😊
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very interesting! :)
Glad you think so!
I have been intrigued for many years with the apparent similarities of the shillelagh (my wife's ethnic heritage) and the Carpathian Mountain Axe, also referred to as a shepherd's axe (a walking stick axe from my cultural heritage). It's interesting to hear that the shillelagh came from a walking stick axe. The Carpathian Mountain Axe is shared by regional cultures in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Romania and Hungary (which all have their own specific terms to refer to it). I have not found a living tradition of its actual use per-se, but I have observed some techniques preserved in the men's folk dances of Hungary, Poland & Ukraine. Also in these countries, it was s symbol of resistance & rebellion.
P.S., I do know of a partially preserved system of 19th-century Hungarian Huszar Fokos (FOH-kohsh) taught in Irving, Texas, USA, by Russ Mitchell who learned it in Budapest in the 1990s; it's a military 'battle ax,' a longer shaft version of the Carpathian Mountain Axe, and it's typically used with 2-hands. He has published this in his 2019 text ""Hungarian Hussar Sabre and Fokos Fencing." For the record, my walking stick art is the Japanese Uchida-ryū_Tanjō-jutsu - late 19th-century walking stick vs. Japanese 'Katana' in the form of a wooden Bokutō.
They would put the sticks up the chimney to season them that's how they became blackened. Goose fat was used to waterproof them if you could afford boot polish you might use that .Anything you could get your hands on basically.
Good presentation. Francis McCaffrey interviewed a fellow named Simon Keegan who has a school for his family bata style as well (I think he’s in either Ireland or England)
Just saved on his few days ago
... u may be interested to know that the Irish word 'air' = 'slayer'!!!