We're much more likely to face this

http://www.gfi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/burglar-crowbar.jpg

or this

http://www.intmensorg.info/images/thug.jpg

or this

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/polopoly_fs/1.3857344.1416565203%21/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/image.jpg

and very much more likely these two

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/bottle.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200

http://www.extranewspapers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/knife-600x337.jpg

than another person armed with a walking stick (especially a TRAINED person with a walking stick!).

Does our Bartitsu training help us prepare for this?

Do we even walk with a cane, in our daily lives?