Baseball is hard and solid. If someone attacks you with a baseball bat, this is not a joke. When someone swings a stick, you do not want to break the stick by doing some sort of block. Maybe from somewhere, you get an idea of breaking stick for self defense.
You can watch something like that in movies. The hero breaks the stick with a block or kick. This is a baseball ball. There is no question of breaking that for self defense. Even if you are capable of breaking a baseball bat, you do not want to do that. Who wants a broken hand anyway?
I know some martial artists can break baseball bat with kicks. Still, when you are being attacked, you do not want to show your skills at breaking. Today I am going to share a video that actually happened. Usually, it gets worse when we see a fight in real life. Let's watch this video. This is not my video, and all video credit goes to Nick Drossos.
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A guy is getting out of the car and talking on the phone. Suddenly the attacker comes towards him with a baseball bat. And he swings the bat to attack the guy. What the guy did is very smart and effective for self defense. When you are being attacked like this, you have to make your move.
You can step back to avoid the attack, but the attacker will attack you again. Please do not do parry and block the baseball bat with your hand. To protect yourself, you should get in and stop the hand that swings the bat. You can use your surroundings in your favor. And the guy did that very well. He pushes the attacker against another car.
As soon as you make your move and defend yourself, you should get out of there pretty fast. In case there are other attackers, and if they come and attack you, that will be a problem. You do not want that to happen. So leave the place pretty fast. You can call the police. They will take care of it.
Thank you so much for reading this post. Please feel free to express your thoughts in the comment section. 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!
100.303 SRY