Comments for Celtic Martial Arts at http://www.celticlife.ca , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.celticlife.ca Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:19:59 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.celticlife.ca/index.php/Meet-our-Bloggers/celtic-martial-arts.html#comment-154 While I'm sure that their heart is in the right place, I would be very wary of anyone claiming to teach "Celtic" stick-fighting by teaching Asian martial arts techniques as they state on their facebook page an elsewhere. The techniques of Irish stick-fighting are not the same as those used in Asian stick-fighting styles. In point of fact there doesn't seem to be very much of anything Celtic about what is being taught. Now maybe they just mean they are Celtic in the sense of their ancestry, as none of them are Celtic speakers by birth. But when I qustioned one of the members of this Society about that he angrily stated that by his definition, "Celtic" meant Irish, Scottish and English martial arts. Now as any real Celtophile knows, the English are not now nor have they EVER been a Celtic people or one of the 6 Celtic Nations. These guys, apparently, are now trying to claim that the English - the one nation on earth which has done more to *destroy* Celtic culture than any other - are somehow Celtic!!!! If they are this misguided in a basic misunderstanding of the words they use to describe their Society, how much more misguided must their "Celtic" techniques be? I hope they clarify these issues and make some changes but until then? Buyer beware. - John W. Hurley Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:34:13 +0100