These are a hoot!

I was looking at some new knitting websites I hadn't seen before, as I was looking for a specific yarn that's becoming difficult to find, and in one of the shopping sites, I found this:



Check out more details at this shopping site when you click here.

And why do I bring this up on a website that talks about both knitting and martial arts? Well, I'm glad you asked.

I know that in my form of martial arts, one of the midterms that you have to do as a second degree black belt is a creative form, in which you can use object other than traditional weapons or open hand techniques. I've seen people use golf clubs and a pool cues, but when I saw this, I thought, "A-HA!". I could see using these in place of a double short ecrimas/double bahng-mah-ee for a routine. Oh, that would be too rich!

(same info cross-posted in my martial arts blog.