Manual of Arms for Baseball Bat

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I'm thinking of buying one of cold steel's polyproplene baseball bats as a defensive tool. Are there any weapon based combat systems out there that can be adapted to the use of a baseball bat for home defense?

The rooms in my home are rather large and contain minimal furniture (for now at least) since I just moved in a week ago.

Any helpful pointers would be appreciated.... :)

I dread to think that the only thing one can do with a bat is to swing hard and hope the hit connects.
 
Look at the stick forms that abound in SE Asia and focus on the two handed techniques.

Also, why the CS bat instead of a traditional wood or aluminum sport bats?
 
+1 on the louisville slugger. That way you can actually use the bat to play baseball should the need arise, and if someone comes into your house, you have a better argument that you just used an object at hand to defend yourself, not some funky bat that is marketed as something that is designed solely to mess someone up.
 
I think the CS bat type thing is the worst idea ever from a liability standpoint. It doesn't make much logical sense, but that type of item just seems like asking for trouble if you have to use it. Lawyers would have a field day.
 
Get an aluminum teeball bat. It's handier in confined quarters. I've got an old Power Flite Aluminum teeball bat (without the plastic/paint; it's raw aluminum) Not to sound retarded, but if I was going to bludgeon an intruder to death, it'd be my first choice hands down.
 
if someone comes into your house, you have a better argument that you just used an object at hand to defend yourself, not some funky bat that is marketed as something that is designed solely to mess someone up.
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If I have to use a bat to defend my house (which, in addition to a gun, I am an advocate of), I could care less about what it looks like. It's my house, and I have no problem having specific weapons to defend it. I don't even think that is an issue of plausible deniability. I mean, it's not as if you were out looking for bat-fights, and if they are found in your house, why can't you use the burglar-beating stick?
 
"Swing, batter, batter, batter, Swing!"

There is a time and place for brute force and ignorance.

Had a girl friend once that defended her home with an electric steam iron. She did not have to even hit the guy as the threat was enough. Or maybe the sight of a 5'10' Amazon completely nude and charging snarling while waving any blunt object would have been enough to run him off.

-kBob
 
And we've discussed better home defense tools than a baseball bat in previous threads, unless you have a very open floor plan with a lot of room to swing.
 
Had a girl friend once that defended her home with an electric steam iron. She did not have to even hit the guy as the threat was enough. Or maybe the sight of a 5'10' Amazon completely nude and charging snarling while waving any blunt object would have been enough to run him off.
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There are some stories that are irrelevant and should be left out of a thread so as not to derail.

This isn't one of them.

I feel like we need more details as this is just too funny of an image to go without further explanation.
 
Oh, and guys, he's in SE Asia, so perhaps some of the "better" SD/HD tools are not available to him.
 
19-3Ben,

She used to take her six-inch barreled Dan Wesson .357 out of the night stand drawer and lay it on top of the night stand in the evenings.

She shared the room with another girl. Other girl sat the cool steam iron on the night stand on its side while looking for something and forgot the iron.

The Amazon awoke to the sounds of someone breaking in through the big sliding glass door of the student apartment, rolled over toward the night stand, grabbed a heavy thing with a grip on it, and ran out into the living room ( the phone was on the wall there) to defend herself.

It was only after the guy injured himself getting away and fled into the darkness that the room mate pointed out that the Amazon was brandishing the steam iron instead of the shooting iron!

There is a lesson or three there somewhere.

-kBob
 
IMO baseball bats are clumsy, somewhat difficult to retain and not particularily effective if you don't have a clear shot to the head. There are any number of relatively "politically correct" melee weapons I'd choose over one.
 
A used garage sale aluminum bat for under $5 would make an outstanding weapon. Value, strength, lightweight...

As far as them being slow and clumsy, I disagree. A full haymaker swing (while clumsy) would destroy ribs, an arm, break a kneecap, or crush a skull. A "jab" would offer repeated punches offering reach and retention of the weapon. A full swing or jab would be relatively quick and easy to recover from (jab being quicker and easier). Aluminum offers added strength and is lightweight. Wood may break or have hidden fractures.
 
Any Walmart sports department will have a kids starter baseball and bat combo for around $20.00 They are about 24" long and light enough to do any stick drill on the planet with.

I bought one, sanded all the paint off and now it sits next to my front door, beside my cane. (One's for going out, One's for staying in) :D
 
I would go a little bigger (28/29"), but yea, something small and easy to handle one handed.
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Yeah mine has a 2" diameter and I think it's 22"-24". I can swing it pretty well in a lot of the more confined areas of my residence, but I really just stow it under the bed as a last ditch weapon. If something is going bump in the night the mossberg is coming out.
 
At a time when the Irish were limited to what weapons they could carry, they developed stick fighting (canes, walking sticks) into an organised martial art form. This information is readily available on the internet. I prefer the canes from Brazos walking sticks. If you truly have the room to swing it, a modern steel frame, wire strung tennis racket is an innocent looking devastating weapon. Neither is considered a leathal weapon per se but Al Capone helped encourage local law enforcement to consider a ball bat a murderous bludgeon. My self, I have a concealed carry. If I am in an area that I consider hazardous I also take a cocobolo cane I turned, carved and balanced myself. I am too old to fight anymore, if threatend it would be my intention to do such massive damage that I could limp away in safety.

blindhari
 
Any Cane, stick, baton, and some sword fighting styles ar compatable with a bat.

Gentlemen let us not forget that the head is not the only effective target on the human body. Legs, knees, arms, elbows, clavicles, and ribs are wonderfull things to break by pure force of blunt object. In about as many seconds as hits I can shatter the knee, break rids and collapse lung, break the forarm, and shatter the collar bone.
 
Compared to a baseball bat, a standard jo staff would offer far more options in deployment. Better reach, too. Can even double as a walking stick. A bat is an OK weapon, but I'd put it into the "impromptu" category of makeshift items at hand.
 
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