Scherma col bastone, scherma con la canna da passeggio
Origin
Italy
Main Techniques
Weapon-based
Weapons
Sticks
Purpose of Practice
Warrior Arts
Type of Origination
Recovered
Degree of Sportification
Yes (Year:) No
General Information
Canne Italiana refers to Italian style cane fencing. Nowadays two different styles are practiced, the academic style and the street style. The first one is practiced with semi- and light-contact attacks, the second uses full-contact attacks.There is a grading system consisting of three nastri (belts): white, red and black (Accademia d’Armi Manusardi, s.d.).
History/Development
Fencing with a cane originated in France, but in the 1990s Maestro Italo Manusardi and his student Lorenzo Ravazzani Manusardi codified what used to be thought only based on oral and practical transmission. They reanalyzed the techniques and called the new system canne Italiana (Accademia d’Armi Manusardi, s.d.).
Transmission (Policies/institutions)
Accademia d’Armi Manusardi is one of the institutions that continues to teach and research the art of canne Italiana.