This video is from a couple years ago when Brett was still only about 125 pounds. He wanted to fight instead of spar. I found his stick was so much faster than mine that I was eating two shots to his one and that, fortunately, he was being too aggressive for his weight and hand strength disadvantage so I went for the disarm. In my 160 losses I have been disarmed 16 times. That translates to 10% of ass beatings becoming disarms. A guy getting beat up rarely gets the disarm, and usually only when he is stronger, lucky, or is being hit by a hand with poor grip control. In fact, virtually all my 16 disarms were against Damien, who took me to the ground and used his jujitsu, or Aaron, who was the #2 Middleweight in the World, and who I would have needed a claymore to beat in a stick fight.
Look, I'm telling you from experience, if you are getting out performed in a stick fight use the snake disarm. The rest of the stuff is pretty iffy. Extend the hand toward his shoulder to deny the head shot stoppage to your head while you try to work him with your own stick. If you can place the checking hand on his elbow or shoulder or head and work in that's fine. But if he has good skills and instincts he's not having that. If he is aggressive enough he might go for your body to punish you. In fact, you can hear Brett's father in the background telling him to punish me.
His aggression got the best of him when he went for doubles underneath and I dropped my arm down and wrapped up his stick. Once you have wrapped the stick with your left arm, torque your hips leftward as your right forehand stroke slashes leftward also, powering that stroke with the same motion. Body shots with sticks are not as debilitating as punches or kicks—just more painful.
If he is stronger than you, what I have done is slide back out of the snake and grab his stick with my hand, then run around on the outside pulling his arm straight and beating it with short smashing chops while he tries to catch me. I have done that to grapplers and big monsters with some success. Many really strong men are too strong to ever yank their stick loose unless you also move in and spike their thumb side with the butt of your stick. And when you do that—guess what—you're in a clinch with King Kong, smart guy.
