> I live in Alaska, posting my first message here on this egroup.
> Anyone know of websites that sell Canne De Vigny or Canne De Combat
> equipment?

Hello!

My name is Zsolt Sandor, and I practice la Canne de Combat since
4 years, I also teach it. I also started to work on my Vigny
Canne skills, but it's a different story.

The french canne federation, C.N.C.C.B. (Comité National Canne de
Combat et Baton) created a dvd with the name La Canne, which is a
very good starting point.

They site is not really intuitive, but check this link:

http://www.budointernational.net/am/tienda/index.php?cPath=21_25

For Vigny Canne, contact Craig Gemeiner, he made 3 DVD's about
Vigny's method:

www.savateaustralia.com

Be careful, that la Canne de Combat, which is a sport, is very
different from la Canne Vigny, which is a, well, self defense
system.

La canne de combat consists from 6 parts:

On competitions, there are 3+1:

- la canne: single stick play
- double canne: double stick play
- baton: staff
- wellchair canne: for people with disabilities

Additional:

- canne chausson: canne and savate, combined
- canne défense: self defense with the canne


Both CDC (Canne de combat) and Vigny Canne have their value:

- Vigny canne is for self defense, much "combat like".

- La canne de Combat is much more a sport, with competitions, nice
tricks, it's elegant, and graceful. There is European Championships,
and also World Championship from la canne de combat.


Regarding to sticks, and equipments:

- We use a normal 350N fencing mask, which is very good.

- Buy a pair of shinguards, something like this:

http://www.decathlon.co.hu/HU/product_8019385-12891586/

- We make the clothers by ourselfs, because we found sport7 very
expensive. As I have seen, the french guys are also doing the same
thing. :)

- For Vigny Canne, hockey gloves are preferred, but for la Canne de
Combat, they are useless, you need a much lighter, easier glove (do it
yourself :))

- We order sticks from a french old gentleman, which is also cheaper,
than sport7. Only 2 euro / sticks, and for me, to Hungary, the postal
costs was something like 47 euro...

If you write me a private email, I have some books cough, cough :)
scanned, which are in french language, I can send you them.

If you have any questions regarding to la canne de combat,
please, ask it, I try to answer.

Best regards:

Zsolti