Pool Cues, Beer Bottles, and Baseball Bats: Animal's Guide to Improvised Weapons for Self-defense and Survival by Marc MacYoung

Author:Marc MacYoung [MacYoung, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Carry On Publishing
Published: 2019-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

From the standpoint of mobility, the sabre grip is the most flexible of all three. It's fast and it relies on wrist work and wrist strength. Aside from speed and mobility, it's other strength is you can whip/snap by flicking your wrist. This allows you to 'bounce the stick off' your target and use that force to hit again, somewhere else. You can deliver a series of fast hits with this grip. Its weakness is that your weapon can easily be knocked out of your hand. It is mostly designed to keep people at the farthest reaches of the stick's range.

The Natural Grip (also known as the hammer grip) is less flexible and relies more on arm strength to get the message across. You use wrist work, but it's more rolls and short, slow arcs than a snap. This grip's big strength is that the weapon sits like the Rock of Gibraltar in your hand and isn't going anywhere you don't want it to. This grip is the one you want to use if you're going to thrust, stab or pommel with your stick. Its weakness is that you sacrifice speed and mobility for a more solid grip. Because you can hit with any part of the stick this works when things are mid-range fighting.

The Oriental/Reverse grip is a sleeper. It's definitely less flexible than the other two, takes more practice and uses arm strength in some weird ways. It's mostly defensive, especially against an unexpected attack (or in a situation that could go either way, but goes 'that way' before you have time to shift to a better grip). Mostly, it's a half-way ready grip that comes naturally when you're carrying a cane and not sure. Unlike the Natural and Sabre grip this isn't an obvious fighting grip, so it's a lot less threatening or provocative.

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