Category: Getting to Know You
I was reading one of the posts where people were talking about canes and guide dogs. It got me to thinking, what are some of the things you use your cane fore besdes traveling? I used my cane for self defence once. I was doing a demo for tae kwon do, and I had a routine with ne of my other classmates. Well part f the routine was with cane in hand and he was attacking me and the other part he would take the cane from me and I would defend my self emty handed. The first time we did this I used a folding cane about 53 inches long. The first strike I adminstered was suppose to be low around shin level. Well I exacuted the strike and the darn cane collapsed on him and wrapped around his calf. When it did that it tore skin. Not pretty but we went on as best we cood. The second time I did that routine, the strike was suppose to be adminstered with the handel to his ribs. This strike was a two handed strike with the right hand leading and the left hand following up. I was suppost to strike him with the very top of the cane between the ribs. Well I got cocked and ready I was waiting for him to rush me. We were in grass so I could hear him coming. I was cocked with the my right hand basicly in my left arm pit and the rest of the cane going paraelle to my body. After the performance which we got a standing ovation, my instructor came to me and she said "you need to be more aware of your surrondings." Confussed I said why. She said "When you poked that cane behind you there was a man sitting in a folding chair. Had your cane been three inches longer, or had he not ben leaning back in a streach, you would have taken out his eye.? When I think of what could have been I still hold my breath. On a lighter note I sometimes use my cane to find dropped things. I find faster than reaching with habnds, bt this means that once in a while i give my cane a bath. lol
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the only thing I can think of besides the normal use for a cane, is to use it for extricating things from behind furniture. comes in handy when the remote has dropped behind the sideboard.
lol, my remote always seems to fall out of reach of cane, i e, under the couch so I must roll off the couch and then move it to retrieve remote then put it back then re settel my self. You can never get back to as comfortable as you were. Frowns.
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the only thing I can think of besides the normal use for a cane, is to use it for extricating things from behind furniture. comes in handy when the remote has dropped behind the sideboard.
1.Getting my brother out of bed by poking him which is potentially dangerous.....bear with a sore head is a good analogy lol! 2.Using it to manoeuver things just out of reach
3.Teasing the cats .4.Scratching my leg back ect.5.turning off the stereo or tv ect.
My mobility teacher says they make good poles for holding plants like tomatoes. And my friend and I think they'd make good shepherd's crooks, cattle prods, and javelins. And they're really good for whacking people when you're mad at them though technically you're not supposed to do that.
Well, in high school, people are always tripping over my cane, bumping really hard into me, not moving, etc. So I often poke people with it. If I have to. And once I hit my arch enemy on the shins and said, all innocently, "Oh, I'm so so sorry!". Lol it was great!
Caitlin
They are great for your girl to kick your but at sword fighting. huh, dragonfire lol! hehehehehehehehehe!
practising my golf swing... j/k and getting a seat on the underground though I usually have the seat to myself..cant think why smile.. hmm twirling it like a baton if I'm bored
lol caitlin, bad girl! he...yeah, self-defense, and getting marbles out from under my dresser...threatening my brother and sister on rare ocasions. alison
I use my cane for: travel, finding things that I dropped, finding objects in general that are on the ground and a pole to lean on. Yup if you ever go to Washington D.C. expect to stand in long lines that might take a hour or two and so people complained of standing, lol. Not me! I used the top part of the cane (as the top part reached at the bottom of my neck.) with my hands on top. Must say I wasn't complaing.
well, most probably i'll use it for self-defense and i'll use to whacking people if need to do so.
Well I could think of a number of things I could use my cane for. First of all, to crack someone over the head if they called me "the blind girl" second of all, maybe a sex tool? haha! haha nah i'm just joking, but I remember once I accidently put my cane between someone's legs as i was walking and this guy's like "ahh her cane is fucking me, how hot!"
hahaha nice one party_gal
Lol! I only hit people if I have to! otherwise I totally am using my cane as a tool, I don't agree with abusing it. But I think that it's kind of an added bonus. If we were ever to ber attacked and couldn't see what was happening, we just hit people! So it's really qutier easlonable, wouldn't you all say?
Caitlin
Well, I now have a guide dog so mostly my cae is used to block my back door which is a sliding glass one its stuck in the track so my door could not be forced open. I've also used it to get things from under furniture including my cat who was hiding from going to the vet LOL.
I've never done the poking things with my cane bit. Should try that. And like the door thing. Hehehe.
Caitlin
When I was a ten year old jerk I used to go up to random people in school and say, "Hey this is what canes are used for" and then attempt to poke 'em in the nuts with it.
James
Oh my gosh James! Lol! How horrible lol!
Caitlin
I use my cane for the normal stuff and self-defence.
Troy
lmao!!!!!!!!! this is hillarious!!! ive always wanted to see a cane war.....
Sometimes my friends would pull the elastic (that si the elastic in those aluminum folding canes) and let it go so it would shoot across the room.. they dubbed this the 'cane gun.'
James
The cane gun? What? Lol. That's hilarious...well this is rather interesting. When I was little I had solid canes for like ever. THen my teacher said, "Look, here's a folding cane, you shoudl get this." And so I unfolded it and put my hand on a joint and it slammed shut on my finger and for like three years after that I wouldn't go near a folding cane. Now I love them. I just know not to touch the joints! Hehehe lol! Caitlin
I mean, dont' touch the joints while it's unfolding.q
I use mine as pole for dancing, it makes a great dance partner. I've also twirled like Goblin said, only one time I got my husband in the nuts while doing this. I've also used it as a limbo stick in a bar and the entire staff did the limbo under it. I've also used it to flip someone off, that is someonethat has flipped me off first and then I say, my finger is longer than yours.
well i use it for traveling, or hitting ppl when they pick on me, but only if i absolutely *have* to
Lol ahahahha Tex about the Limbo! And go Mel! lol!
Well, a few things, actually. I use a folding cane, and find the elastic piece on the end a great cat toy. Once in college, I had way too much time on my hands, put my stylus in the elastic part, pulled back, and let go. I almost put my broadcasting teacher's eye out. Fortunately he had a sense of humor. I use it to find things. By laying it on the ground paralel to my legs so that it is across my path of travel, I can cover more ground systematically than I can with my hands. I use it as a crude measuring device. My wife and I bought a piece of furniture at a yard sale and had to make sure it would fit the area we had in mind. I used to use a sraight cane with a crook on the handle. Some kids were playing street baseball at a busstop near where I lived. One of them took the cane and got the ball out of a storm drain.
In adition to some of the ones that have already been mentioned here, in sixth grade the basket ball players were forever borrowing it to get the basket ball down when it got stuck.
Dear me! I don't think long canes should really be used for a lot of these things, like keepine the sliding back door shut. They're not very strong as this idiot proved when I went in to college one time, a great big foot came down halfway up my cane and bent the bloody thing in half so I couldn't use it again. Luckily, I was with an LSA so I could go back across the road to RNIB Vocational College and borrow one from the Mobility department, but I have to admit, I use mine occationally for getting at things down the side of the wardrobe or prising braille magazines out from where they wormed their sneaky ways under my Divan bed, so I can't get my arms under it to get at them.
I use mine to chase cattle and hogs on my family's farm. I have broken lots of them when I swung at a miserable hog and hit a gate or post instead.
hmm. Everything I've done with my cane has been mensioned here, accept one. I use my folding cane as a percussive instrument. lol
I've used my cane for most of the things you all have mentioned (especially sword fights)! However, I'll bet you, that none of you have used it to kill a mouse.
Once, we were sitting in a tenth grade American Lit class, when my teacher freaked out, because she saw a mouse run behind her desk. Well, she went psycho, but me and a friend took my cane, and well, I'll leave the rest up to your active imaginations. Let's just say, that after that, the part near my tip was...well, well deserving of its red coloration. It was basically scured on the end of it.
Hmm, maybe I'll try that with the mice here...
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The only thing I have used my cane for is hitting people when they don't get the heck out of my way (only in high school). Using it to kill a mouse? Nasty!
Self-defense, whacking my dad in the shins when, for example, I run into something I didn't see and he goes, "Geez, ya think you were blind or something!" It's also unfortunately been used as a castrator one time when it got stuck in a crack and jabbed my dad who was behind me. He was singing soprano the whole rest of the afternoon. My nephews have used it to play fake light saber, fake martial arts stick thing with. Girls who use NFB style telescope canes and are desperate and horny... well, uh, you take the chain thingy off the handle and... uh huh...
I use my cane when I'm messing around with some of my friends at college and sometimes we have cane fights and bang both of the canes together. One of the boys in my class decided to call me a health hazard because I always poke him if he's standing in front of me.
I would use it to wak people if nec... but I also have cane fights... there fun as hell.lol
Well, my cane has been used for some pretty interesting things. I have used it as a fincing sword on a few occasions. Also, once I asked someone where the restrooms were in a place I didn't know, and they proceeded to pick it up and lead me by it. My choir director also used to use it to conduct with.
That would make for a very interesting baton. lol
sword fights. duh!
I ones had to use mine in a fight because the asshole, was trying to bash my hed in to the wall that was be hined me.
Did it help?
Well, let's see. If you have a solid cane with the hook on the end, you can use it to get a baseball out of a storm drain. I helped some kids do this once. Also, the elastic part of the folding cane is a great cat toy.
Lou
o yes it do yes it did
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I ment yes it did werk. the asshole backt down pritty fast.
nice *smile*
You can use a cane as a fincing sward. If you atatch a reel and fishing line to it, you've got yourself a good fishing pole. I've used my cane to wack people when they didn't get out of my way.
Fishing? Haha! Good one.
Another use for the cane is a base ball bat, or a baton. you could also make music with the roler tip, if you have one. You can also use it as a measuring device, compare the length of an object with the cane. You could even use it as a dance partner. It's o amazing how many uses the cane has. Also, you can use it as a broom.
And for you women, you's can use it to plesher yourself's. lol!
OH, God, I wouldn't go that far.
Heck no!
Besides traveling, I use my cane to get stuff from under the bed like my phone and poking people when they get in my way.
Cane fights are fun, but a bit dangerous also. Which makes it even more fun.
Haha!
I have used my cane as a baseball bat when I was little, I broke a few of them on people's heads, and a few other things.
A good use is a jump rope, but be careful where you jump. You could use it as a balance beam, but it would snap!
canes are also good for if you dropped something behind the couch and of course it's hard to get back there so get your cane back there and push it under the couch far enough so you can reach under neath the end where you're stand and get the item you're looking for. Sometimes I wish there was a thing that came with your cane like a remote paging device where if you hit the button your cane beeps or something so you could find it. I don't know how many times I couldn't find where I put it.
Kerby
I sometimes stand on my cane if it won't fold up. It doesn't really help, though.
My penus is to small so I use my cane instead.
LOL.
Hahahahahahaha hahahahahaha ahahahhah!
Makes me never want to use a cane anymore.
Oh, dear God!
Getting back on topic, I have used my cane to assist me in the art of beating someone I didn't like who was also blind on the first day I met him.
Was the cane fit for use by the time you were finished with him?
No, not really. I busted it, and fragments of the cane were in his leg.
Holy shit.
jeese! How, may I ask, did u do that? and how did u know u didn't like hm if u just met him? lol
on topic... I've used my cane to lean on, whack people in my way, as a percussion instrument, (once in band I played the base drum with it lol), and I've also had my friends use it to tap the rim of the basketball hoop so I could shoot. One time I was shooting and the girl that was tapping the hoop freaked out cause the ball was coming toward her, so she tried to use the cane to stop it. It broke. hahahaha!.
People always ask me for my cane to beat someone up.
Anyone ever played hockey with canes? Rather interesting.
To poster seventy, that happened once. I had to walk around for the rest of the day with part of my cane duck-taped. My teacher felt so bad about it. lol
I just get people round the ankles with my cane if they annoy me, or I just trip them up if they keep walking in front of me! JHahahaha!
I just hate it when I lost my cane one time. I was at blindness training center, and I couldn't find my cane what so ever. I looked everywhere in my dorm room, no luck. I asked a few of my friends to help. It so happened that the cane was behind the heater.
How did it end up there?
my gym teacher had to use my cane on a number of occasions to get a basketball down from the hoop when it got stuck in the net.
The heater in the dorm room was a small metal one that sat on the floor. I was going to stand the cane by the wall for something, and it fell behind the heater. I remember, at that same place, I was going to the bathroom. I leaned my cane on the bathroom wall. It fell. When it fell, it hit the emergency alarm! The other students thought there was a fire. Thankfully, the dorm supervisor turned off the alarm.
Moste of the uses have been covered here but, lets go over practical weapons you can use your cane as.
1. short sword
2. long sword.
3. short staff
4. bo and arrow
5. numchucks
6. slingshot
7. club
I have also modified canes, adding in stuff like blades and better bunjy cords for shooting stuff with.
How the hell does the cane work as numchucks? I don't even know what those are for.
We use to sord fight and also take and fold the cane in half and take chesnuts and hit them at each other. man those things hurt.! I also lean on my cane and use it to find things sometimes.
The bad thing about folding canes is they can actually wind up hurt the user. I forgot to double mine one time when someone was bothering me and I swung it and the damn thing first came apart and then a piece wound up hitting me in the face.
fold the cane in half, take each side in a different hand and spread it out about 8 inches, there you go, got your numchucks!
To make noise in order to play basketball. someone would tap the rim of the hoop with my cane so I can know where to shoot the ball.