Hiking, Stickfighting & Irish Shillelaghs

Impressions from our Hiking trip in the beautiful Rhine-Valley with some Stickfighting training and a visit at the workshop of Irish Shillelaghs Rhine-Valley. Our host and friend André took us through his workshop, showed us his beautiful hiking staffs, walking sticks, cudgels and more and some of his recent work he does with steaming, bending etc. a future Blackthorn Shilellagh. Thanks a lot for his hospitallity and a great day. You can find André in the Facebook-group The Irish Stick: Also check out his youtube channel: Also check out the channel of my buddy Stefan, who showed us some of his work for self-defense with a heavy Walking-stick: