Training clips from Milton, Ontario Canada - Glen teaches traditional family Irish stick fighting techniques taught to him by his late father, Greg Doyle.
Doyle Bataireacht or Irish Stick Fighting or simply 'The Newfie Shillelagh" is a devastatingly effective two-handed combative system developed well over 300 years ago by a Doyle family in Ireland. This system was brought to Canada in the early 1800s via a Doyle who settled in the rough and tumble landscape of the Atlantic's Newfoundland coast.
As most of the stick fighting styles eventually became extinct in Ireland (due to socio-political changes, and access to other forms of modern weapons etc), The Doyle Clan 'Rince an Bhata Uisce Be...