Dwarf020

A couple months ago i started carring a walking stick w/me almost all the time. it's just a pine stick about an inch and a half in diameter w/a big rounded piece on top, where you are supposed to hold it. It come up to my waist (i'm 5' 7").

Now, i carry this thing, not because i can't walk w/out it (i'm 21 and in perfectly good shape, if a bit scrawny), but mostly because it gives me a sense of security that if i were to get into some sort of confrintation (an astronomically unlikely event for me) i wouldnt be compeltely defensless and unarmed. On the other hand, it's not like a have gun so i'm not like i'm going to accidently kill myself or somebody i want to stay alive (my favorite description of how to aim a gun: 'point this end at the thing you want to die..'), but i could hit somebody pretty hard.

I was just wondering if people think this is a really strange thing to do, and if anybody knows of any websites that i could use to teach myself to be reasonably compitent w/this thing (i dont have any martial arts training or anything)