Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Rattan is not a tree or bamboo

One myth I often hear, even among kali/escrima/arnis and SCA folks, is that rattan (the material used to make the sticks that kali and SCA people frequently use for practice), is a tree. Rattan is a palm, much more like a vine than it is a tree.

The other myth I hear is that rattan is bamboo. Bamboo is hollow. Rattan is solid.

Just wanted to clear that up.


0 comments:

Post a Comment

- Your email address will not be displayed.
- You can use some HTML tags, such as <b>, <i>, <a>.
- URLs will not auto-link. Use the following HTML to post links: <a href="http://yoururl.com">name of the page</a>