How long is that shillelagh?

Thank u, this helped, I was starting to get discouraged 😢😅

Just another brief commentary: if you pock by the other end, the power of the strike as a short stick is increased...

Two of my brothers and one of my sisters are truck drivers. This will be handy for them.

I pay the extra to get in the nicer neighborhoods, those discount stabby prices aren't work it.😂

As I am very short I only found one walking stick in my size. Adjustable canes that are always offered are aluminum and fall apart!

Your legal immigrants are cdomino's.They are just passing.They have no way to be in our country in the first place.Bad mat I keep trading with with m sticks all the time We need to be prepared to protect ourselves.Because joe biden is doing his job as our president

Ok knee started to hurt,so I back off,to much on my squatting for some reason , even after a year,I still haven't got strong enough .

In liberal cities , the criminals are let off and you are considered the bad guy

Would the best extra item be a small 6" robust working led flash light, Matt?

How do I order? (Florida delivery)

20:30 I'm saying we put the gun ranges and an armory. Civilian armory sounds fine, but that's more of a gun shop. I'm talking about something like a canoe or kayak rental, except you don't have to pay. You get assigned a rifle, and a monthly allotment of ammo, which you have to fire at that range. They'rd be a soda machine that takes change, a vending machine with snacks, a rangemaster, and probably a recruiter. On busier days, trusted volunteers. 21:26 Ah, you worry about a lack of discipline. Fine. Certify them with the rifle before you load it. Make their first shot count. You're not going to PT my guts out. I just want to be more technically competent as the American population over the average Iraqi. That's all I'm asking for. 23:01 Once you get em' to bow down to an empty rifle, I think they're on the way to certification.

15:14 No one fears reality until it is too late.

13:22 It's almost like a European sport. Guarding over a bunch of stick wielding sissies.

Thanks !!

Starts at 10:53

Thanks!

thank you for saying our rights come from G-d

Great videos Matt! I agree the cane is an excellent tool for nonpermissive environments. I live in a state where gun laws are very good, and I carry a firearm daily for self defense. I'm also a firearms enthusiast and love plinking my own handloads at my steel targets. That being said, I also have a few hickory canes for instances where I travel to places where firearms are not allowed. I enjoy learning the techniques and perspective you demonstrate in your videos! Keep up the good work!!!

Thank you, Coach! May we have another? Great work mixing it up. My choice is cane, as always. A colleague of mine kept a 5 iron and some golf balls in his work truck, just in case of nocturnal predators. On another note, is it possible to block an elbow effective ly?

Another thought... Large MAGLIGHTS are effective and perfectly legal.

Here's a tip... put a sock on your bat. If someone gets hold of the bat, the sock will slide off of the bat, giving you another swing at the piñata... 🎉😂

thanks Matt

Big George Foreman could probably break it

Matt , my choice for improvised weapons to carry around in my car would by any type of object or item shaped similarly to the dowel rod weapons you have featured in previous videos as these are the types iv been practicing with or perhaps an adjustable metal cane like the ones sold in pharmacies.

Cane every day unless I'm hiking.

Life saving advice 🙏🏻

357sig/magnum!!

Matt, great class. So glad you pointed out the serious ramifications of using a bat or golf club for self defense. Years ago i made an arrest when a male used a bat on another male, who sustained serious injuries, due to a road rage incident. The instigator had a baseball glove, in the back seat of his vehicle, strapped to a bat. As many people believe this will allow a person to have a bat in their vehicle when not actually playing at that time. This is what occurred. In court, it was learned that he wasn't going to or leaving a game, but that he had never played baseball. He was found guilty of going armed with intent and assault causing great bodily injury. When going to, or leaving a game or practice, a player should have the bat in a zippered case, and with the other baseball gear, stored in the vehicle's trunk. This hopefully can prevent a serious problem. Stay safe. Doug.

I have a self-defense stick. It says XD9 on it! 😂😂

Great video very informative, positive incourageing 👍

My friend and I have been having a (friendly) disagreement about the viability of one technique we didn’t see in your video - a baseball swing. It’s a strong strike… but does it telegraph and take too long to chamber and strike?

My thug stick is my 12 ga

First time here. Loving this from the first minute.

could I not use my self defense cane in this manner? I have a 42 inch cane ???

I'm an ASP instructor since 2002 through ASP international. Is it perfect?? No! Is it better than nothing?? Yeah, kinda... Professionally I've only ever used it to break windows.

I was doing karate but I stopped doing it

NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!! Talk to the police except to point to the guy on the ground, say, that guy attacted me, then shut your mouth and do NOT answer any questions. No cop is your friend.

Watching from Quezon City, Philippines whenever possible. Very enlightening and inspiring lessons of self-defense and discipline. Thanks and more power.

I’m 88 and have arthritis in the hands, and been thinking of something like this! What is the best diameter?

What is the diameter of the stick?

Great idea, but, i have several handguns that work much better.😁

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happy to live in a slave country where its not allowed to carry a piece of wood with me...all governments hate people, their laws are proof of it

Watched a lot of your videos, came across today. My impression : with this stuff you will beat up I a real street fight. A lot of blablabla and bad technic. Sorry for that. But that's my impression as an martial arts and combat fighting practitoner since 30 years.

I live in Italy where we have an old tradition of stick fighting from the shepherds and I appreciate a lot your teachings. I want to add only a small advice how to make a good fighting jo stick: we use not a stick millef from a wooden board but a suiteble hardwood sucker. The reason is that a sucker has a structure llke a series of concentric tubes of lignin that make the stick very resistent to bending and chipping during a stick fighting. Every fruit tree of " rosacae family" is good like but tree, apricoat, apple etc. but also olive tree. In Ireland also rhey have an d tradition of stick fighting with the shillelagh stick ( similar to the jo) made out of blackthorn sprouts dried for a couple of years that are the very best. In Italy we prefer howthorn which is easier to fnd in branches suitible for a good fighting stick with performances like bkackthorn and......fully complimentary!

Do you catch yourself saying yes dear for self defense?

I never thought of it that way but that’s exactly how I learned to do it!

As a male, diagnosed at 34, now being 41, with Multiple Scleroses which heavily effects my the strength and use of my legs depending on if my nerves are transmitting or cross-firing like bad electrical wire. While I still have good upper body strength currently I have needed a cane for some time now. Luckily, I have my Grandfather's old Hickory crooked walking cane and it has been very handy in my journey. I've had my CCW and carried a firearm for much longer then I've had the MS but as you have mentioned here, even being in the US, I can't take that everywhere I go. I thank you for talking about this stuff and will get a resistance band to help me work out my upper body strength to preserve what I still have and maybe even beef it up a bit. I'm also working on another cane/walking stick using a vine wrapped hiking stick that someone had made for my Grandfather as well as Deer Antler / stag from a Buck that my Grandfather have harvested decades ago. I am mounting them together with Stainless steel All-Thread rod but not sure how well that would hold up in a self defense situation...

Good info as always. Thanks!