What is this type of fighting?

Question

There is a way of fighting with sticks. I first saw it on Stargate Atlantis. It's where they fight using sticks. Please answer my question!

Answer 1

Kali? It's an ancient martial art originated in the Philippines.

Answer 2

sword fighting

Answer 3

There are many martial arts that involve sticks because sticks are such a commen element found in the world they are a very commen wepon virtually every martial art uses them on some level.  Although I have never seen the epesode of STargate Atlantis you are talking about here are a few of the martial arts and their histories.

        Kali is a martial art originating in the Philippines because when the spanish empire ruled the island they banned swords.  The natives made up for this by practicing to fight with wooden sticks instead.

          Kindo is a japanese martial art that uses wooden, or reed swords called boken to practice sword skills until they master the art of the swords suitable enough to become a samurai.   The wooden boken is considered a deadly weapen in its own right even though it has no metal blade of its own right.  In the hands of an accomplished kindo master a kindo sword is able to break bones, or bruse and rupture organs.

            Kung fu, (Or Gung Fu ) uses a series of bo staffs.   The full staff is a wooden or bamboo pole six to eight foot long.  The half staff is three to four foot long, and is often used in pairs.  

            Kung fu often impliments varients on their staff wepons such as the two section staff (commenly known as nunchucks)  Or the three section staff ( a wepon that looks like nunchucks but has three sections )

             Sometimes considered a staff is the chain whip, (or nine section staff)  This is a series of nine pieces of metal or wood with four to five pieces of chain linking each together.  At one end of the staff is a weighted sharpened spike, and at the other is a small ball with a bright silk ribbon to make the apponate dizzy.

        I'm sure other martial arts use sticks, but I havn't studied them.  I'm sorry if that didn't help.

Hope that helps,

Jer

Answer 4

The fighting style they use on Stargate Atlantis is based on the Martial Arts style Eskrima (also called Kali).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskrima

Answer 5

If it's Japanese, then with sticks its jodo or with bambu practice-swords it's kendo.