Actually, a familiar tool "umbrella" sometimes seriously argued as a weapon

Everyone once played a chubby with an umbrella when he was a child, but in fact it seems that that way of thinking is not a mistake. Umbrella which is a familiar tool not only puffs out rain but also seriously argued as a tool to fend off attacks such as abusive attacks.

The Umbrella as a Weapon - Geri Walton
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Umbrellas, which are thought to exist from around 2000 BC, are also considered to have religious implications in the past. The umbrella is sometimes used as a symbol to show the intentions of the king and there is a history that it was positioned as a luxury item in Europe.

Although it is such an umbrella, as it gradually becomes used as a tool of the general public even in Europe, it seems that it became becoming to be used differently from originally like "Chamera". The book "The Umbrella: A Misunderstood Weapon (umbrella: misunderstood weapon)" written by JF Sullivan in 1897 said that people in the era of Europe playing with umbrellas were drawn with humor .

Although it is a "weapon", the umbrella written in this book is not like killing others but appears as a daily scene. For example, "weapons" used to defend yourself when angry puppy jumps ... ...


It seems like the mother repels with an umbrella to protect the child struck by a stranger. In this case, it is certainly feel likely to say that "weapon" good, but you may ask that had been the use of umbrella, such as funny and at the time of Europeans also somewhere drugs.


Also, there seemed to be a game playing with fencing using an umbrella. Events that reproduce umbrella fencing at that time are also being held.

Umbrella fencing at Suffolk 2014 - YouTube


Although we used umbrella weapons somewhat funny, there seemed to be a way of advocating seriousness as a weapon seriously. Charlie Charles Random de Berenger, a soldier, wrote the book "Helps and Hints How to Protect Life and Property" written in the 1830s and "Defensive Gymnastics (for defense How to move your body) "as one of a number of defense techniques, how to protect yourself with an umbrella is introduced.


In the book written earlier, Lieutenant Colonel de Berenger said about the umbrella "It is probably possible to divert as a weapon, use it as a stick to hit the opponent, or use it as a shield by spreading the umbrella, I can withdraw my pistol gun from my head ". It also says that it is useful as a defense against dog attacking dogs.

Lieutenant Colonel de Berenger was not the only one who considered the umbrella as a defensive weapon. In 1899, Edward William Barton-Wright, who published an article titled "New Art of Self Defense" in Pearson's magazine, in 1901, two years later, Or ways to incorporate canes into defense techniques.

The defense law advocated by Barton-Wright is to combine his name and "ju-jitsu"Bartitsu(Vertice) ", and a number of methods have been devised to protect themselves from thugs and the like. Many of them seem to be methods of handing and attacking based on Jiu-Jitsu etc., but the way to incorporate the umbrella is mentioned as a part of it.


Among them, Mr. Barton-Wright states how to defend using an umbrella as follows. In the event of being attacked, first tap the attacker 's head with an umbrella. In doing so, the opponent lifts both arms to the height of the head to protect their heads. The defender, aiming at that state this time, grabs the tip from the opponent's elbow, robs the freedom of the body and makes the attacker lose consciousness by strongly hitting the attacker's jaw or the part of the heart with the fist.

Besides this, Mr. Barton-Wright says "How to get away from attack range of attacker's weapon" or "How to invalidate the attack power of the opponent when you are in equivalent armed state with attacker", " "How to stand up to high opponents", "How to protect yourself from opponents who are good at kicking", and so on, they are introducing a rather interesting defense method. In the following sites, the contents of "New Art of Self Defense" are introduced, and may be interesting for those who are interested.

Journal of Manly Arts


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