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New eBook coming soon!  Which cover looks best — the one with the wood background, or the paper?

From the back cover:

This pared-down walking stick method is at once brutally effective and easy to learn. Inspired by the work of Pierre Vigny, H. G. Lang, and Col. Thomas Hoyer Monstery, and based on two decades of research and testing, this action-packed ebook is guaranteed to inform and thrill martial artists of all experience levels.

Dozens of illustrations and clickable links to video demonstrations flesh out this short but thorough fighting manual which covers all fighting ranges, including grappling and wrestling. Practice its strategies and techniques and within a few months you’ll be shocked at your fighting readiness!

The humble and ubiquitous cane, in the hands of a gentleman or lady devoted to training in this unique method, will become a devastating, yet legal and non-lethal, self-defense weapon.

About the Author

Robert “Mitch” Mitchell Jr. has been teaching martial arts since 1990. In 2011 he was awarded the rank of Master by the Combat Martial Arts Practitioners Association, and in 2019 became an authorized instructor of Mark Hatmaker’s Frontier Rough & Tumble Martial arts program. He is the founder of Heritage Arts Inc., a 501(c)(3) federally-recognized non-profit educational charity providing free instruction in martial arts, fitness, outdoor skills, and spiritual development (www.heritageartsinc.com).

His writing credits include “Martial Grit: Real Fighting Fitness on a Budget,” “The Calisthenics Codex” (which has been in Smashword’s Top 10 fitness books since its publication in 2015) and “The Wildwood Workbook: Nature Appreciation and Survival.” A priest in the Old Catholic tradition, he has also written two books of homilies — “Lift up Your Heads: A Year of Old Catholic Homilies” and “Seek His Face: Another Year of Old Catholic Homilies.”

A fellow named John Cummings commented on my post Grandpa Lyne and Me Sharing a Love for Canes and requested to see the newspaper clippings regarding my Grandad Lyne’s job as caretaker of the  old 7 Pines battlefield (there’s a shot of Grandpa Lyne there on the left).

Grandpa Lyne is somewhat famous for his hand-made canes and, coincidentally, I’m something of a cane fighter.  Click here to get my cane defense course at Mitch’s General Store.

Anyway, without further preamble, here you go John — articles below!  Unfortunately my mother didn’t record the publication dates or save the mastheads.

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Those who know me are aware that I’m something of a cane fighter.  Coincidentally, my great-great-grandfather on my mother’s side, one “Captain” James E. Lyne, is somewhat famous for his hand-made canes.

James and his wife operated a general store with an apothecary and a Civil War relic shop.  He ran the relic stand and did the heavy lifting at the general store, while she ran the counter, operated the apothecary, and kept the books.

I don’t believe he was really a captain in the Confederate army though.  To hear my great-grandma tell it, he was so young they wouldn’t let him fight in the “War of Northern Aggression” as they called it.  She always said all they’d let him do was carry messages and blow a bugle.  Rumor has it he said whatever he needed to say to make his battlefield tours fun and entertaining.

Anyway, great-great-grandpa Lyne liked to carve and sell souvenir canes.  Here are some pics of his canes by way of canequest.com.

At some point he was also a caretaker of Seven Pines Battlefield.  Somewhere around here I have a newspaper article about it.  If more folks are interested, I’ll see if I can dig it up and scan it.