Because stick fighting is dangerous, participants pray before bouts, and amulets may be worn for protection.

A tradition of teaching based on this has survived in contemporary French and Italian stick fighting.

A Welshman in the mountains had taught me the art of stick fighting, and I was ready.

They would herd cattle, kill snakes and learn the warrior code by stick fighting.

The Surma have also kept their ancient custom of stick fighting, but advanced weapons have started to appear.

Since ancient times, the arts of stick fighting had been handed down from fathers to sons or learned in traditional military fencing schools.

A sport and ritual the Suri take extremely seriously is stick fighting.

Since stick fighting draws a large audience, it becomes a threat of danger.

Some existing forms of European stick fighting can be traced to direct teacher-student lineages from the 19th century.

He didn't know much about stick fighting and his one idea was to bash in my skull.