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  The Mighty Sjambok
The use of the Sjambok is that widespread and it is that dangerous on the person targeted.
The best one with the Sjambok is to be chambered for a #2 strike, which is a back-handed strike where your right hand is chambered for that #2 and your right hand is near your left pectoral muscle.
If the Sjambok was a sinuous razor blade, you would be cutting yourself, the back and outside of your own leg, your right arm lifts, the right hand still has the palm facing rearward and the thumb oriented to the ground.
www.donrearic.com /mightysjambok.html   (4199 words)

  
  Sjambok - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The sjambok is the traditional whip of South Africa.
The name seems to have originated as cambuk in Indonesia, where it was the name of a wooden rod for punishing slaves.
A strip of the beast’s hide is cut and carved into a strip 3 to 5 feet (0.9 to 1.5 m) long, tapering from about 1 inch (25 mm) thick at the handle to about 3/8” (9 mm) at the tip.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /sjambok.htm   (192 words)

  
 Sjambok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The sjambok or litupa is the traditional heavy leather whip of South Africa, sometimes seens as synonymous with apartheid but actually much older and still used outside the official judiciary.
It is made from an adult hippopotamus (or rhinoceros) hide, or possibly from the penis of a male animal of either species.
The instrument is also known as kiboko (the name for the hippopotamus) in Kiswahili and as mnigolo in Malinké.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sjambok   (323 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The sjambok or litupa is the traditional heavy leather whip of South Africa, sometimes seen as synonymous with apartheid but actually much older and still used outside the official judiciary.
It is made from an adult hippopotamus (or rhinoceros) hide, or possibly from the penis of either species.
The sjambok is also used today in South Africa by those who mete out discpline imposed by Kangaroo courts.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=sjambok   (401 words)

  
 Sjambok
Sjambok, is a traditional whip from South Africa.
Sjambok, was the name of a wooden rod for punishing slaves.
The Sjambok is made from Hippopotamus or sometimes Rhinoceros hide.
www.mistressincontrol.com /mistresssjambok.htm   (123 words)

  
 20 more cross into Botswana
Crisscrossing his back, sides, arms and chest were multiple scars which he testified were the result of the sjamboking suffered at the hands of a Policeman known only as Haipa and two of his colleagues.
After being sjamboked on August 4, the day of his arrest, he was hospitalised from August 6 to 18.
The rubber sjambok hit him on the middle of his head, with its end whipping forward over his head to cut his nose and lip, and break one of his teeth.
www.namibian.com.na /Focus/Caprivi/at.htm   (837 words)

  
 The sjambok
The sjambok is made from an adult hippopotamus (or rhinoceros) hide.
There was another version of the sjambok made not from the hippo’s hide, but from its penis.
The sjambok was used by the Portuguese, the French, the British and the Boers both for judicial punishment and to chastise slaves.
www.ecstagony.com /eng/info/artinst/sjambok.htm   (683 words)

  
 Sjambok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The name seems to have originated as sambok in Indonesia, where it was thename of a wooden rod for punishing slaves.
When Malayan slaves were imported to South Africa, the instrument and its name wereimported with them, the material was changed to hide, and the name was finally incorporated into the Afrikaans, spelled as sjambok.
A strip of the beast’s hide is cut and carved into a strip 3 to 5 foot long, tapering from about 1 inch thick at thehandle to about 3/8” at the tip.
www.therfcc.org /sjambok-105618.html   (209 words)

  
 Annapolis To Newport Race 2005
According to the IRC Rule under which both yachts were racing, Sjambok, with a rating of 1.336, beat Donnybrook, with a rating of 1.442, by 5 hours, 18 minutes and 26 seconds on corrected time.
Aboard Sjambok, watch captain Matt BECK credits increased breeze for the last 100 miles as well as splitting with Donnybrook to sail around the east side of Block Island for the close on the water finish with Donnybrook.
This race was lovely fun.' Sjambok hugged the high, rocky eastern coast just south of Castle Rock as they approached the finish with their red asymmetrical spinnaker to finish at 17:54:08 this evening.
www.sailing.org /?ID=j1fFh5jqr   (435 words)

  
 The Martialist: The Magazine For Those Who Fight Unfairly
Cold Steel's sjambok is made from some sort of semi-flexible plastic (mine was shipped bent over itself, actually, and still has a slight kink in it as a result).
Be careful not to score the sjambok itself with the edge of the scissors.
I don't usually prefer such lanyards for short fighting sticks, but the sjambok seems like a weapon on which it is prudent to have such a retaining strap.
www.themartialist.com /pecom/sjambok.htm   (690 words)

  
 Sjamboks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sjamboks are used as a cattle prod, a whip, a riding crop, and a means of self protection throughout Africa.
The Sjambok was adopted by the South African police as a riot control weapon.
Because of the large numbers of Sjamboks that were needed, the issue item was made from precision molded fl plastic.
www.garysoutfitters.com /productdetail.asp?mcid=1&scid=250&pid=534   (221 words)

  
 About the Ebook - Sjambok.co.uk
The Sjambok is the cattle-prod or whip used by the South African Police with great effect in riot control.
It is not as potentially lethal as is the walking stick but can administer punishing corrective measures to a mugger or would-be rapist.
It is written for the middle-aged non-violent person concerned about the shocking rise in mugging and attacks upon the person constantly reported on in the media and is the first detailed textbook on this intriguing and rare system of Personal Protection.
www.sjambok.co.uk /about.html   (137 words)

  
 Self-Defense Forums: For A Fighting Chance - SJAMBOK--> which one(s)
Sjambok is more flexible (although stiffer than a regular whip) and thus isnt a good walking stick (wont support weight) - it hits differently, and personally if I had to pick one to walk out the door and beat someone with right now, I'd pick up my Sjambok.
I do like Sjamboks and I keep 1 short one inside the house, mostly for squashing spiders, and a large one attached to my camping pack, for hitting Cottonmouths which have a habit of chasing hikers.
I doubted Don's assertion that a sjambok could do what it is advertised as being able to do, so I took a very restrained whack on the forearm.
www.selfdefenseforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=9242   (1260 words)

  
 SJAMBOK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In Africa, the Sjambok (sham-bawk) is a cattle prod, a whip, a riding crop and a means of self-protection.
Unlike most western style whips, the first Sjamboks were not plaited from thin leather strips, instead they were carved whole out of hippopotamus hide.
Adopted by the South African police as a riot control weapon, todays sjamboks are made from precision moulded extruded fl plastic.
www.coldsteelswords.co.uk /sjambok.html   (133 words)

  
 MMSA story - Please Sir, May I Have a Whipping?
Danny yelped pitifully as the sjambok licked its distinctive line of fire across his bare bottom, his whole body jerking with the shock and agony of it.
The sharp report of the whip meeting the boys bare bottom was still far louder than the wail of pain from the twelve year old, and then the man returned to the gentle stroking of his sons backside with his weapon of chastisement.
He had hardly noticed that his uncle had been rubbing the tip of the sjambok on his bottom, but he did notice when it was lifted, and then, when the whip wrapped its fiery path across his poor hind quarters, he couldnt hold back his wail of pain.
www.malespank.net /viewStory.php?id=5734   (6420 words)

  
 Self-Defense Forums: For A Fighting Chance - Got a Sjambok...
I then tried the Sjambok on a shaken-up can of Coke, which is the most fun I've had in a very long time.
Heating the sjambok up to make it more flexible is fine, but when it cools down you are left with an awkward bent piece of plastic that needs some massaging to get it back into shape.
On a wall I had an empty mineral water bottle I was attempting to strike the top of with the tip of the sjambok.
www.selfdefenseforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=9703   (2099 words)

  
 Ranger Surplus - Sjambok, 36 Inches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In Africa, the Sjambok is a cattle prod, a whip, a riding crop, and a means of self protection.
Its considerable reach, lightning speed, and devastating impact have also built it quite a reputation as a sure defense against deadly snakes.
And since the Sjambok is swung like a rod, not cracked like a bull whip, its weight, speed, and flexibility does all the work and little physical strength is required.
rangersurplus.tranguard.com /details.asp?tgs=4195429:27677735&cart_id=&item_id=1425   (85 words)

  
 Home - Sjambok.co.uk
The Sjambok is intrinsically non-lethal and is most unlikely to produce life-threatening injuries.
It is difficult to surpass the Sjambok as a legitimate tool of Personal Protection.
With only a few hours’ study and practice it is more than possible to have at one’s fingertips a vigorous means of survival if under threat of being mugged or raped.
www.sjambok.co.uk   (106 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | sa news Court views sex toys in Coetzee trial
A whip, sjambok, handcuffs and other items allegedly used during rough sex between Juanita Coetzee and her husband were displayed during mitigation of her sentence in the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday.
The defence was trying to show that Coetzee was a "battered wife" who killed her husband because of his perverse sexual preferences.
She then pulled a whip, a pair of handcuffs, a smallish ball and a sjambok from a box containing many other items.
iafrica.com /news/sa/389282.htm   (448 words)

  
 Sjambok- Race Reports
Sjambok averaged almost 14kts through the evening to cover the 160nm course in just 11:35:38, beating the course record by over 1 1/2 hours!
The early portion of the race, from the start in Ft. Lauderdale to the Miami sea buoy and on towards Fowey Rocks, was a tight reach in 18-20 kts of breeze.
Perhaps she had benefitted from not having to do a bare-headed change, perhaps she had just the right sail for these conditions, perhaps the modifications that they had recently made to the boat had really paid off.
www.sjambok.com /racereports.htm   (2350 words)

  
 Tools : The Scourge of the Dark Continent: The Martial Use of the African Sjambok
In The Scourge of the Dark Continent the author has written a fundamental instructional manual on the use of the sjambok, which is a short whip made from rhinosceros hide.
New versions of the sjambok are manufactured from synthetic plactic and it is these implements that the manual addresses.
Other chapters describe how the sjambok can be customized, how it should be trained with, and how to keep it readily available (whether in your house or on your person.) The manual also includes advice from whip experts James Keating and Tom Meadows, who are also well-respected instructors within the self defense community.
www.homeremodelingtoday.com /tools/skill/1559501987   (298 words)

  
 Schoolboys sjambok pupil: South Africa: News: News24
Here are the stories from across the country that made headlines this week in the news.
Pretoria - A pupil from F H Odendaal High School in Pretoria was assaulted and beaten with a sjambok, kicked in the head and beaten by a group of schoolboys on a rugby field during break on Friday morning.
Marius Van Loggerenberg, 18, suffered injuries to his ribs, several blows to his body, a cut to his head and a bruise on back of his neck.
www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1992976,00.html   (834 words)

  
 Cape Times - Home Affairs staff sjambok refugees
Officials used sjamboks and sticks against about 30 refugees who forced their way into the building shortly after the gates opened yesterday morning.
One showed the Cape Times a 7x1cm sjambok mark on the left side of his face, and a bruise under his right eye.
Another man said he was beaten and kicked in the chest and in the back by a male official.
www.capetimes.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=269&fArticleId=2430581   (479 words)

  
 Cold Steel Knives: Cold Steel Black Sjambok, 54", CS-95SLB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sjamboks are used in Africa for herding cattle and for self-defense.
Traditional sjamboks are carved whole out of hippopotamus hide.
The illustrated Black Cold Steel Sjambok has an overall length of 54", and weighs 14.2 ounces.
www.knivesplus.com /cold-steel-sjambok-cs-95slb.html   (173 words)

  
 NAUTICALweb - Latest news
Orlanda-Olympus were in second place followed by Sjambok whilst both Lexus and Pisco Sour gained a position compared with the previous buoy.
Lexus were bacck in seventh place again, followed by Aifos who were suffering the consequences of the false start, and Spanish vessel Balearia who seemed lost on the racecourse, quite a distance away from the rest of the TP52 fleet.
In fifth place were Americans Sjambok, followed fairly far behind by Lexus, Aifos and a lost Balearia.
www.nautica.it /go.php?press=W&recno=42   (620 words)

  
 Sjambok.co.uk
The Sjambok is a whip like weapon used by the South African police as a defensive weapon.
The Sjambok aside, the book has much to offer in advice on personal self defence.
The psychology of defence and the attitude in defensive attack as well as the view of the law in personal defence situations.
www.sjambok.co.uk /feedback.html   (184 words)

  
 Sjambok
Originally, tribal people carved sjamboks from dried elephant or rhinoceros hide, employing them as both symbolic and practical emblems of authority.
Sjamboks were also used for personal self-defense, and non-lethal dueling.
These are made from real South African “police issue,” once used as a low tech alternative to chemical Mace™.The defunct Nationalist Party regime manufactured them in large numbers for riot control, making them of flexible polypropylene.
www.aswgt.com /sjambok.html   (125 words)

  
 Cold Steel Sjambok - www.wholesalehunter.net
Its considerable reach, lightning speed and devastating impact have built it quite a reputation as a sure defense against deadly snakes.
The Cold Steel® synthetic Sjambok hits just as hard as one that is made out of the traditional Hippo hide.
This bigger, thicker handle, when combined with the heavier, beefier lash allows the Sjambok to be swung with even greater power and control making it a must have whip for city people and country dwellers alike.
www.wholesalehunter.net /outdoor_sports/Cold-Steel/Cold-Steel-95SMR-Multi-Purpose-Tools.html   (168 words)

  
 Combat / Samoobrona - Sjambok (SFD)
"sjambok sjamokowi nie rowny, orginalne s-bocki z RPA robione bylu ze skory hipopow(takie leniwe zwierzki co spia w mule rzecznym)dlaczego, poniewarz ta skora nigdy nie tracila na elastycznosci.Mialo to dluga "pale" 50 cm i zwalalo z nog nawet bardzo muskularnego murzyna.
Rodzajem rózgi jest też SJAMBOK wywodzący się z RPA, przerażająca broń.
Sjambok - broń używana przez policję RPA, coś pośredniego między pałką a pejczem.Doskonały sprzęt do samoobrony /używany był między innymi przez przyboczną gwardię Hitlera/.
www.sfd.pl /temat130725   (361 words)

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