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Simple Secret To Disarming Bats & Clubs

Don’t Be Intimidated

There is more to stick fighting than meets the eye. Coming against an attacker with a club or bat can be pretty intimidating until you understand the physics behind it. This is especially true if your attacker doesn’t understand where the power in a club or bat is. In this video, we’ll teach you everything you need to know about easily disarming a club or bat-wielding attacker.

Breaking It Down

The key to defending yourself against an attacker with a club or bat is getting inside. By inside I mean getting close enough to your attacker that the stick is of little or no value to him.

This may sound very simple, but getting in that close can often be a difficult task.

In order to get inside, you must understand which targets on your body are dangerously weak against blunt weapons. These targets mostly consist of the bony parts of the body — the skull, shoulders, knees, elbows, ribs, shins, tops of the arms, etc.

Defending Yourself Against Blunt Weapons

Unlike defending against a knife where the inside of the arms is one of the most dangerous places to get cut, you actually want to block a club or bat with the soft tissue on the inside of your arms (if you have to).

The bat will cause much less damage to this part of the body. It will obviously still hurt and leave a nasty bruise, but it won’t break your arm. One good block and you will be able to close the distance between you and the assailant, eliminating the danger of the bat without ever disarming it.

Now, of course you should avoid taking any shots from a club or bat if you can help it, but if you have to block or take a shot, use the soft parts of your arm and make sure you don’t try to block the club or bat at the “sweet spot”. Try to block as close to the handle as possible. Your other option is to simply redirect a blow and get inside that way.

Final Thoughts

As with any self-defense situation where an attacker has a weapon, your first and best option is to flee. Techniques like this will radically increase your odds of winning, but there is still a lot of danger involved. Even if you disarm and beat your attacker, you will still likely have some bruises or cuts.

This technique is designed for situations where you cannot leave the scene without a fight (where you are trapped, must protect family, friends, or bystanders, etc). These are the types of situations where knowing how to disarm and neutralize your attacker can mean the difference between life and death.

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89 thoughts on “Simple Secret To Disarming Bats & Clubs”

  2. I’ve found the easiest and most effective way is hitting your attacker’s hands. He’ll be ‘licking his wounds’ so to speak while you do whatever. That’s inclose and obviously it’s not always available. Actually pretty rarely, do thank you.

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  3. Hi fast fight, thank you for your videos on self defense methods I learn a lot of good info from fast fight. Thanks and please continue your short clips, they make perfect since
    Sincerely,
    Mark s

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  6. Been a police officer for 40 years. This was very helpful. Wish I had this years ago when I suffered a skull fracture from a bat.
    This also appears to work possibly an axe?

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  7. Hi I really like the bat techniques because I was in that kind of situation before when a local hoodlum was trying to get some gang strips by harming an innocent unsuspecting person name me the peaceful person in the neighborhood! This guy tried several times to hit me in the head with a bat for no reason at all.I kept moving in a circling motion around him kinda like the Ali shuffle an after several misses he felt I was getting an opportunity to clock him and he stop.With your technique I probably will knock a person out that swing a bat and take it!

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  11. Thank you I feel a little better with this technique and knowing what parts are less powerful and suggests what I can make.

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  15. Thank you so much for the great tip for defending against a stick/bat weapon to avoid the sweet spot.

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  17. What about a sword how would I defend against such a weapon ??? Thanks for a great demo defending oneself against a stick, thank you.

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  18. What you say is true but if he is trained in escima then in kali we call it stick boxing and we train for away mid range as well and especially in close by using the butt. Also with the stick in hand punching with it in hand is similar to brass knuckles. Keep up the good work.

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  20. Interesting that you are actually able to have an advantage when a person has a bat as a weapon. Thank you for sharing.

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  21. good to know this sweet spot . I once had a guy hit me with a tire iron in the side of my ribs for no reason .I lifted my arm as I stepped back not far enough still go hit . but I dropped my arm when it hit and trapped the tire iron between my body an arm . He was helpless with his weapon trapped. I punched him in the face and took the weapon away. it left a nice mark in my side but didn’t brake anything (ribs).that was enough to scare him off because I now had the weapon.

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  22. At least I now have a chance to defend myself!!! Or at least be AWARE of what might need doing…. Thank you SO MUCH for the mini-trainings!!! Some might think, “Oh, bits and pieces…”, but they definitely add up!!! I’m blessed that I checked out an email from you and decided to follow up!!! Thank you, thank you thank you!!!!!

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  25. Hi Bob, when you swing that weapon, do you have to shout “FORE” in case it knocks his head off, lol. Good tip to know that getting in close is practically disarming your attacker, and you could kick him where it really hurts, and then finish the fight with a karate chop to the back of his neck or even another kick to the face.

    Sorry for late comment, had Internet problems, 150+,e-mails to sort out on google, I still have to more to do on Yahoo.
    That is another reason I have not taken you up on the offers that you have advertised.

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  26. TO:- Mark P Sheffer.

    I noticed to addressed the comment to fast fight, I think you should know by now, that the team is better known as FightFast, just thought I would put you in the picture.

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  27. I like the way he say’s, “….don’t really have to worry about this anymore”. It such a passively positive comment that reduces the severity or threat of the stick which instills confidence to the viewer or student. It’s a subtle yet cleverly obvious comment that helps reduce the fear or concern of the stick.

    Of course we are going to worry about getting hit. But he’s telling us not to be afraid and that the weapon can be defeated. From a purely strategic and physical viewpoint, it is simple matter of avoiding the impact or as he explains to take a hit with the least amount of power behind it.

    The two guys are very quiet and unassuming, but very effective teachers. For people who are less physical and fearful of confrontation and being hurt, this is a great lesson and perfect teachers.

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  31. I like it, a well-presented production with good audio.
    If an aggressor gets in close and you’re the one with the batten, all is not lost.
    When using a long batton, if an aggressor gets inside the power arch of the batten, the secret to putting down the aggressor is to swing the stick to the side, and bring it back using the tip of the long batton or the impact point against either the ankle of the aggressor of the knee. Once the aggressor drops you can then poke him away or use the batten to subdue the aggressor in a club like manner. The important thing is to take a side impact option, swinging with just one hand in a side arch, while the other hand grapples with or strikes the aggressor who had been foolishly permitted to advance too closely. Of course, the aggressor may know this too, so be aware that if you are in close that a side attack is imminent. Great videos.

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  33. Thank you for this information. Coming from a petite size woman, I need all the help I can get to defend myself.

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  35. Great info. Love it all. At 57 and about 52 years of street fighting, martial arts any extra info for quick stops is awesome.

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  36. Very true about where most power of a weapon such as a bat is generated. Where possible I would move to the outside rather than the inside and barrage the attacker with numerous strikes using ridge hand and palm strikes, even taking them down with a palm heel strike with my fingers in their eyes as I grab their arm or have my hand at their back. No time to play around with such people.

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  38. Someone trained in short stick fighting would not swing their stick like a bseball bat. These practitioners use a variety of pokes, jabs and strikes that are extremely difficult to defend against. I doubt that the technique shown in the video would be very effective against the short stick practitioners.

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  39. Having watched this it just brings to mind my friend’s son who was killed by a bat, he was reaching in to grab and leaning his head back and away and was hit a glancing low to the temple, he dropped and it was over.
    The one who hit him was actually the defender who would not have swung the bat except in self defence , my friend’s son was a bully and was 6″ taller and 50 lbs heavier , it still resulted in a manslaughter charge, and many years of nightmares, and daily what ifs.

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