IMPORTANT: This is not a training manual. This brief guide introduces personal Walking Cane Self-Defense from both the historical and the contemporary perspectives for the reader's consideration. It has been written with educational intent and purpose, and it promotes appropriate and proper instruction by professionals at all times. The objective is to provide the reader with enough real information for making informed decisions about how best to approach learning the correct skills of cane self-defense and who to contact to get started. Here you will read about the deeper personal understandings and philosophies inherent to cane self-defense instruction by some of our world's master cane instructors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, and the United States. You also will read how Asian martial arts have impacted the more traditional European martial arts, and how different cultures have passed their knowledge and techniques of stick-fighting and cane self-defense down through the generations spanning centuries. Welcome to the Art of Cane.