Citations:cane fu

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English citations of cane fu

  • 2011 April 5, Mark Mynheir, chapter 27, in The Corruptible[1], Multnomah Books, →ISBN, page 164:
    I'd downloaded a training series off the internet called Cane Fu," in which a martial arts instructor taught a series of self-defense moves with a cane.
  • 2011 August 24, Leonard A. Swann Jr., “Drifting Days”, in Son of Sassamansville[2], Author House, →ISBN, page 224:
    A front page article in The Wall Street Journal reported: “Everyone is ‘Cane Fu’ fighting at Senior Center, so watch out.” A new trend of cane fighting started at St. LEONARD'S Retirement Center in Centerville, Ohio, where Bingo was replaced by Martial Arts Cane Fighting.
  • 2012, Earlene Fowler, chapter 2, in Spider Web[3], volume 15, Penguin, →ISBN, page 23:
    They enjoyed hobbies together like their weekly scrapbooking class and their cane fu class down at the senior center. Cane fu, I'd learned, was a type of senior martial arts where a person learned to defend themselves against muggers or, as Aunt Garnet called them, mashers.
  • 2013 March 12, Bram Frank, chapter 17, in WHFSC Grandmaster's Council: a compendium of the world's leading Grandmasters[4], Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 458:
    Thanks to Mark Shuey's exposure of “Cane-Fu” (cane self defense for the elderly), the media's research leads to Robaina. For the first time, Robaina presents his method as an American Martial Art to the public.
  • 2014 March 11, Roy Day Jr., “The Defender used in the Wheelchair Protective Stance”, in Crime and the Disabled[5], Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 324:
    Go to the net and put in canemansters.com, there is a whole system of cane defense — cane fu, and a man dedicated to teaching cane self-defense like I am to wheelchair self-defense.
  • 2016 March 15, Rita Lakin, Getting Old is Tres Dangereux[6], volume 6, NYLA, →ISBN:
    She then directs the Cane Fu gang, who are positioned in front of the grove where we will stand. They're lined up in two rows. Merrill Grant will lead them to the chuppah, at the music cue of a rat-a-tat-tat on the drums.
  • 2017 May 1, William Briggs, chapter 5, in How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis[7], reprint edition, University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 68:
    Instead, she walks everywhere with a stout oak cane and practices Cane-Fu for exercise and self-defense.
  • 2017 August 15, Mike Befeler, Death of a Scam Artist[8], Encircle+ORM, →ISBN:
    “We have our cane fu class going on this afternoon.” Fred pointed to half a dozen women and one scrawny man in the middle of a large room. An instructor in what looked like a white karate karategi, stood in front of the group. They all held canes in their hands. “What's cane fu?” Reginald asked.
  • 2018 October 1, Rita Lakin, “The Deli”, in Getting Old Can Hurt You[9], volume 8, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN:
    ‘My vote for favorite case is when we read about the woman who hit a purse-snatcher guy with her cane, and within weeks, Cane Fu classes were opened. We got to use canes to capture a murderer.’
  • 2020 September 13, Scott William Carter, A Deep and Deadly Undertow: An Oregon Coast Mystery[10], volume 7, Flying Raven Press:
    “That–that–that was–” “Deep breaths now.” “–amazing. You, like, used kung fu!” “Cane fu, maybe. I only have a few minutes before our friends in blue get here, and I really want to know about this third guy. What was his name?”