Japan's youngest martial art brings both new and veteran practitioners from across the globe to Tanabe, the town where it was born. Two men stood opposite each other holding wooden sticks shaped ...

A shrine for the martial art of Aikido founder, who died in 1969, if Naylor had the money, he’d decorate it with flowers. Naylor bends down to grab a wooden staff, also called a jo ...

Back then, this long wooden stick with a bulbous head, called a shillelagh, was key to bataireacht, or Irish stick fighting. And this Irish martial art, which dates back more than 500 years ...

Bataireacht, which dates back to the 16th century, is a blend of boxing, fencing, and grappling fought with a long wooden stick with ... of the ancient Irish martial art. "Ireland’s ancient ...