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The "Canne de Combat" is a French martial art (of which I'm particularly fond of) where we fight with a "canne" (hence the name 😄). Historically, it was a mean of defense. The standard length is 95cm and the weight between 90-130g for tournament canes, and up to 200g for training ones.

The most common way of fighting is with a single cane (and lots of protection, fencing helmet, padded clothes...), but there are some funny variants that I do practice a bit:

• "Double canne": one cane in each hand
• "Canne chausson": single cane with French boxing kicks. It can also be done with 2 canes, but then it's getting hard to parry kicks 😅

Video generated from shots by Cédric Lacage and Riad Idjellidaine

There's also the "Bâton de combat" where instead of a cane we use a staff (140cm length, 400g weight). Unfortunately (or not) there are no tournament for this one as it's too dangerous (one hit can bend a fencing helmet)