Some people, OK, just Lesley, thinks sticks are no fun. Here are pictures and a weblink of people having way too much fun with sticks.
http://www.sticksite.com/fantastic.jpg
These people are stick crazy.
Hey, I used to do the Broomstick Dance and other stick dances, in the days when I could dance! I have nothing against sticks in general - wonderful things, with all sorts of uses. They hold up the runner beans in the garden, get chopped up for firewood 
, make wonderful whistles and fifes 
, - there is no end to their uses. You don’t have to convince ME, mute. It is just that, as in everything, you get the occasional rogue. Like rogue elephants, man-eating tigers . . .
OK, I forgot diabolos. I am sure there are plenty more great uses, too. But have you looked for uses of rogue, pirate sticks? Hmm?
No, I didn’t think so. It’s easy when you don’t live with one, isn’t it? Out of sight, out of mind …
Just remember those of us whose lives are totally dominated by the unpredictable behaviour of our sticks. Or is it really just me?
Coffee’s post with the picture of devil-sticks was what occurred to me.
When I cut a stave, I usually try to make it a stang, if I can. That’s the kind with the fork at the top for you to rest your thumb.
And then there’s the “yarrow stalks” that you can use to consult the I Ching. Those yokes you buy in the shops tend to be bamboo.
And there is a method of divination using Ogham twigs. Nice, if you can spare the two or three years needed to identify and collect all the twigs required.
And there are those little wooden sticks that are so useful if something gets stuck between your teeth.
I’m a juggler so I use sticks frequently. I also use sticks when I walk, without the dogs. I like to make my own sticks usually with a persimmon shaft and a handle out of boxwood or natural shed antler. I find sticks useful for helping me pick up poisonous snakes. The antler handle is particularly handy for snakes as it has a nice taper, smooth, hard and won’t hurt the snakes when I scoop them up. I don’t know why these snakes cross the road. I understand some blokes use to turn sticks into snakes, sort of silly I think. Sticks are also great for pushing greenbrier, poison ivy and sumac out of the way when taking a walk in the woods. I also use a stick when I wade a stream or river for fishing. One of my sticks has a crook that I use to help me clean a section of gutter on my house. Another stick has a screw-off handle so that I can then screw the shaft into the gun stock of my birding scope or camera to create a steady viewing base. I walked right into a rather deep mud hole in a marsh a few years ago, stick saved my life
The Chapman Stick:
Please remind me, if you’re having problems with a stick, what’s wrong with a walker? At a time when I needed support, I much preferred the walker.
djm
I like the ones with the wheels, brakes, and seat. I prefer wheels with Phil Wood hubs though.
Can you imagine the damage a FOUR-LEGGED stick would inflict on me? Or one with FOUR LEGS AND WHEELS? Good grief, man, are you trying to kill me? (Because that’s already been done, you know!).
At least sometimes Stupid Stick is so busy trying to keep his pirate hat on and the parrot on his shoulder that he forgets his nasty little schemes. If I gave him a basket, and / or a seat, he wouldn’t have to concentrate at all, could store all his weaponry and use all his energy to outwit me.
No thank you.
Contact Staff
Along the same lines Calisthenics Rods
Maybe Stupid Stick is really an escrima stick and just doesn’t know any better. He isn’t rattan by any chance is he? I have heard this can happen from time to time.
Also useful for some martial arts like Bâton français and
crossing streams using a good Fierljeppen technique or punting.
there’s these things…
double yer fun!
Tried them! Or one of them! They don’t like giving the amount of support required, although they are very good for testing the ground for deep boggy holes. I need something I can lean on! They hurt my hands when I make them short enough to lean on.
I suppose Stupid Stick could have a martial arts background. I don’t know if he is Philippino, but he came from ebay, so could have originated anywhere! He is definitely not rattan, but it is worth knowing that they have a bad name. I shall avoid them.
I am sure he would enjoy punting. The potential for disaster is just wonderful. Are you all trying to get rid of me by giving him ideas? I’ll just go, you know! You don’t have to push …
And deej, the real reason I don’t use the walker, apart from their renowned bad natures, is that my left arm doesn’t yet work well, so I need a one-handed device! This is why my guitar playing is not improving as it might! Luckily I can manage whistles, although I fumble. So Stupid Stick has the upper hand, for the moment.
I’ve never tried them.
However, I’ve heard that the trick is to use the hand straps for pressure and only grip them lightly.
Yes, I liked the strap, but it exerted a downward pressure on me, rather than pushing me up! I might have been doing it wrong, of course, but I lean sideways at present, and walk sideways (great fun), so I need the stick at pushing-on height so that I can keep pushing myself upright and steering in the right direction! But of course Stupid Stick finds it far more fun to steer me in the wrong direction!
well…if yer gonna walk ya have to do it on the ground, not the ceiling! 
I use a stick like this sometimes, the new ones have a brake. It’s a nice stick as it always tell me how far I have walked.
