Eskrima Kombat

By Peter Katz, Pacific Union College   “A Fight Which Was None of Your Own Making”: Martial Arts and the Theater of Science As they near the conclusion of their 1890 treatise Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defense, Baron Headley (Rowland George Allanson-Winn) and … Continue reading “Staging the Streets: The Theatricality of Science in Fin-de-Siecle Martial Arts”