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The Bahng Mahng Ee

Is a short stick. It can be practiced as a single or double weapon. Practitioners like this weapon because of its challenging partner drills and disarms.

The Bahng Mahng Ee was originally used as a tool such as a leverage bar for an ancient Korean “backpack,” a laundry stick, and an ironing stick. The ironing stick has a very interesting history. Folded cloth would be placed on a flat rock surface and rhythmically struck with two specially designed sticks in order to flatten the wrinkles out. The “ironing rock” often became a place for the women – mother and daughter or perhaps neighboring women – to gather and work together. By listening to the rhythm of how a woman beat the clothes, passersby could tell whether she was happy or sad. The daily chore of using the sticks to beat clothes conditioned the upper body and taught the women how to strike forcefully and efficiently. It was only natural for the women to pick up one or both of these sticks in the face of danger.

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