The attacker can use any kind of weapon while attacking. If the attacker has a baseball bat, he can attack you with that. Defending against a baseball bat, hockey stick, or stick is the same. You can apply the principle to defend against that kind of weapon.

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So if someone attacks you with a baseball bat, put your hands up to block the stick - I will never say that. Even a martial art grandmaster who broke three baseball bats with shin kicks and made world record would not suggest that, I think.

If you get the idea of breaking the stick or baseball bat doing block with your hand, it is better to forget that. You can see some fancy stuff in movies, that's for entertainment. When you fight to defend yourself, you have to think based on reality.

To defend against a baseball bat, the best thing you can do is to get in before the attacker swings the bat. You get in and stop the attacker's hand. Then you can attack him and get out of there. If you want to step back to defend yourself, you can, but guess what? He is going to attack you again with the baseball bat. So how long are you going to get back? You will get hit eventually.

You can get back in case you cannot get in for the first time. When the baseball bat passes you, you can get in and stop his hands. Please do not try to stand there and try to block the bat with your hand. You do not want to break your hand, do you?

Now you can apply this technique attacking against other sticks. It would be better if you can watch what I'm sharing. I'm going to share a video from YouTube. This is not my video. All video credit goes to Nick Drossos.

Hope you will find it useful. Thank you so much for reading this post. I really appreciate your support and feedback. Please feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments below. If you like martial arts and want to learn more about martial arts and self defense, you can check out some of my recent posts.

Stay safe. Always be happy!