What is Kaspin? (website in Finnish)

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Anybody know anything about this?

http://www.kaspin.net/

There are videos on the site, some of better resolution than others.

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Here's a little info:

Kas-pin is a Finnish martial art
Martial arts, also known as fighting systems, are bodies of codified practices or traditions of unarmed and armed combat, usually without the use of guns and other modern weapons. They are often taught today with the goal of developing both the character of the practitioner and the mindful, appropriate, controlled use of bodily force.

The martial arts, perhaps due to a half-century
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The history of Kas-pin is not very well known, and what little is know is somewhat disputed.

Kas-pin has been passed down in the valkonen family alledgedly for 30 generations.

Weapons used in Kas-pin are many and varied

Knife (Finnish puukko)
Bear-spear
Sickle
Karttu (a club with an aproximate length of a baseball bat)
Sword
Sotilasvanhus (a doubly curved walking stick)
a Belt with a weight at the end
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source: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Kas-pin