An Outline for Learning the Art of Cane Fighting: In 25 Lessons

by Matthew Lynch

Leboucher's 1843 text on how to learn cane fighting in 25 lessons is a window into the evolution of La Canne. It is also a highly practical manual on how to defend yourself with a cane, and whether or not these 25 lessons turn you into a human threshing machine capable of delivering "150 cuts per minute!" as Leboucher claims, it will certainly spark a few ideas. The excellent illustrations of sporting Frenchmen (dressed at the height of Parisian fashion for 1843) braining, swatting, thrashing, and maiming one another with whizzing hardwood canes are sure to amuse and enlighten.

37 pages, Paperback

Published December 15, 2017

About the author

Dr. Lynch is a Chair and Associate Professor of Education at Langston University, a blogger for the Huffington Post, a columnist for Education News, and a education advice columnist for Education World. He spent seven years as a K-12 teacher, which gave him an intimate view of the impediments that hinder genuine education reform. He has focused the second stage of his career on researching topics related to educational policy, school leadership and education reform, particularly in the urban learning environment.

Dr. Lynch’s scholarship is intended to make a redoubtable, theoretically and empirically based argument that genuine school reform and the closing of the well-chronicled achievement gap are possible. His research and commentaries have been featured in publications throughout the United States and have centered on issues ranging from school reform to politics. Throughout his career, he has been interested in developing collaborative enterprises that move the field of education forward.

Dr. Lynch is the author of It’s Time for a Change: School Reform for the Next Decade, the newly released A Guide to Effective School Leadership Theories, and the forthcoming The Call to Teach: An Introduction to Education (Pearson, 2014). In addition, he is the editor of the following projects; Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians (Praeger, November 30, 2012), the book series Studies in Anti-Intellectualism and Academic Disengagement (Rowman & Littlefield), and a forthcoming book entitled Reimagining School Reform and Innovation (Sense, 2013). For more information, please visit his website at www.drmattlynch.com.