Historical Fencing Manuals
The Stafffighter’s Library is dedicated to the recovery, critical editing and republishing of manuals on stick fighting — from the 19th to the 21st century — with a special focus on Portuguese stick fighting. It produces academic work with documentary recovery, technical notes and historical contextualisation.
Critical editions Facsimile reproduction Jogo do Pau PortuguêsSee catalogue
New Edition
Stick Fighting – Russian Military Manual (1843)
Recovery + modernised transcription + technical comparison with Portuguese Stick Fighting.
About the Project
The Portuguese Staff Fighting Historical Research Centre is dedicated to the study, preservation and dissemination of Portuguese martial traditions involving sticks and staves. Its mission involves documentary research, collecting sources, recording memories, technical evaluation and cultural promotion of Jogo do Pau - both nationally and internationally.
Its editorial scope includes the Stafffighter's Library, a library and publication line specialising in the recovery, critical editing and republication of historical manuals on stick fencing — from the 19th to the 21st century — with a special focus on Portuguese Staff Fighting and European military methods. Each work is restored with academic rigour, technically reviewed and published with comparative notes, glossaries, iconography and historical context, making accessible a little-known heritage of great relevance to the history of Iberian martial arts.
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