If you like a lotta chocloate on yer biscuit...

[steel_bonnet]

Some of you may have received emails about various bits of fencing history for your era with mysterious comments made by me about "research" and "hypothesis". So what was I on about? Truncheons, that's what.

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truncheons

[calcinations]

I can't recall where just now, but I read that the police in the good old days were trained to go for the elbow, collar bone or somewhere else, perhaps the hand. Non-lethal but incapacitating if in the middle of a melee or making it a lot easier to arrest someone.

We've also got my dads old rosewood truncheon. Very heavy and just right for the job.

Re: truncheons

[steel_bonnet]

Nowadays they go for the upper thigh- crippling, painful but less than lethal and avoids any risk to the head