Your Bo is a very versatile weapon or tool for self defense. It is very fun to train with and will build a strong foundation of fitness, speed, strength, flexibility, and coordination, while also giving you better mental acuity and neural plasticity. It is like an insurance policy for your health!
The walking cane is a powerful and dynamic self defense tool because it is strong, flexible, devastatingly destructive to an attacker, and it can be taken with you into your home, your car, the bank, on the bus, the train, a plane, the county courthouse, etc… It is therefore, like an insurance policy for home, auto, business, etc…