In a Fight to the Death, Do You Choose Bat or Knife?

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Happy new year! Tomorrow I’m heading to Singapore to explore the city for a week. If you are there, I’d love to meet you for lunch.

When meeting new people, I’ve found it’s useful and fun to have a small inventory of conversation topics that are fun for everyone to participate in. This week, I’ve stumbled on to an oddly captivating topic with my old friends and new acquaintances. It’s led to hour-long arguments, Youtube research, silly business ideas, and grown men pantomiming deadly fights on the streets of New York.

We are trying to answer the question: in a fight to the death with an equally matched opponent, would you choose a bat or a knife?

Your decision might say something about who you are. Or not. Either way, all of my friends will be reading your replies.

Here are the rules:

  • Your opponent will be randomly selected from your peer group (age, gender, weight, basic background) etc.
  • The bat is a wood standard Louisville Slugger.
  • The knife is 12-14″ bowie knife. The blade length is roughly 60% of that.
  • You will start 14 ft. away from each other.
  • The fight will take place on a dry, grassy field.
  • The fight is to the death.

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Bat or knife? One word comments are cool! I’m looking for a tally. I’ve got a bunch of ideas on this, but I don’t want to influence the count.

Try this one out with your friends and let me know where it goes. Make sure you’ve got some time, and perhaps a wiffle ball bat and a paper towel roll, if you are the scientific type ;)

Cheers from the USA,

Dan

PS, you can download that Bruce Lee wallpaper here. 

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  • Aaron

    Haha, yes! P.S. I’m in Bangkok right now for a consulting gig for a few weeks. Any chance you guys are coming through? 

  • http://www.tropicalmba.com Dan

    no i’ll be in Bali with Elisa in David for the next few weeks, probably won’t make it to BKK in Q1. Have a great time! 

  • Aaron

    a sniper rifle or grenade ?

  • http://www.propelbacklinks.com/ Steve Wyman

    Bat.

    You might cut somebody but not fully. if you get even a tip of that bat with a full swing its going to break something.

  • http://www.tropicalmba.com Dan

    rifle! 

  • Chris Thomas

    The bat. Easier for a novice fighter to use.

    But if I had the training, I’d definitely go with the knife.

  • Owen

    I go with Bat…..it has the advantage of length to keep distance. NO I would not swing it wildy though, I circle in slowly using the bat in a jabbing motion to keep the distance. At this point I employ one of the other weapons I already have (legs) to take low kicks to my opponenet, aiming primarily for the nerve group on the thigh..the ones that give dead legs. From there its just a matter of time before they give way and after that, i can use the swing motion of the bat if I need. 
    Of course the knife fighter (again like someone else states) may well rush me…closing the distance is thier best weapon. However as was stated in the rules you start 14 feet awayy from each other so using the bat it is well within your reason to keep whatever disntace you need.

  • http://www.tropicalmba.com Dan

    and throw it at their eye!?!

  • http://www.tropicalmba.com Dan

    agreed here! i’m thinking of pulling together a padded kit so i can test this stuff out with friends :)

  • Booch Paradise

    Knife no question.  With the bat to do real damage you have to have some wind up which means only one good swing.  The guy with the bat would have to keep it wound up for his swing while playing a game of cat and mouse.  If he swings and misses then the knife guy can close the distance and on the back swing will be hit with the inside of the bat or even the knuckles of the bat guy.  Then its over.  Knife vs knife would suck, but I’d rather be cut up and alive than dead.  

  • http://marketingwithsergio.com/ Sergio Félix

    I pick KNIFE.

    If my opponent has a bat, I’m pretty sure I can just run towards him, having my head covered by my arms and pray to God the receiving hit is on my arms and not on my ribs.

    If I’m able to survive that, I know 100% sure I’d get his throat in seconds.

    BUT, if my opponent has a knife I have no freaking clue what I’d do.

    I think I’d pick knife again but to be honest, I don’t think I’d survive a fight like that. I’m pretty positive I would be able to kill him but I’m pretty sure he’d stab me good as well.

    No happy ending on this one.

  • http://www.tropicalmba.com Dan

    haha oh man i’d take bat against you man! please, somebody start making kits so we can test this shit out. i will pre-order ! ! :D

  • http://www.tropicalmba.com Dan

    i have this over-inflated sense my my batting prowless which plays in to my thinking here. i think i can do 3/4 swings that do damage!!!

  • Johann

    Hi Dan, just read your post that you are going to be in Singapore. I’m from Germany and will be in Singapore from 26.01 – 16.02.12. But I suppose you might have left by then. It would be great if I could meet you to have a chat. I have quit my job last December to start my business. This is part of my reason going to Singapore. Any chance to meet you there another time or do you know anyone else who’ll be there? I’m always keen to meet other entrepreneurs to exchange thoughts.

  • Jasonrasset

    Nothing, I like to put my back against the wall, it’s to the death, after all.  If I had to choose, I would take a bat, as a bat could be an effective defensive tool as well as offensive.  The knife is lethal, if you get a chance to use it properly, odds are in my favor with the bat, I presume, because I hope to never be in this situation. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=564762743 Stuart Langridge

    Hey Dan,
    Years ago I studied kung fu for a couple of years and my teacher was – at the time – one of the leading combat martial artists in Europe. He reckoned that it was safer to take on a man with a gun than a man with a knife! I saw him take on someone with a knife once and it wasn’t pretty for either of them, though the guy with the knife fared much worse. The guy with the knife made the major league mistake of trying to actually use it. It turns out that even self controlled martial arts masters don’t like that much. Who knew…?

  • http://www.tropicalmba.com Dan

    damn. that sounds like something a kung fu guy would say! !! I’m assuming you haven’t watched this movie :P

    http://youtu.be/4DzcOCyHDqc

  • http://www.tropicalmba.com Dan

    ah missed ya!! congrats on the biznass!! i don’t have a lot of contacts in SIN right now, hoping to be back to visit soon!

  • http://www.paulovsk.com/ Paulo R. Ribeiro

    Knife.

  • Michael B

    Bat.  Jabs to the face.  Cant do much of anything after a bat jab to the face.  Plus, it’s surprisingly hard to get a knife to stick in someone.  Slashes work well, but it takes awhile for them to incapacitate someone.

  • Michael B

    On a related note, I sat next to a 10 year old boy on a flight back from Hawaii a few days ago.  We talked Zombies vs. Vampires for over an hour.

    I chose Zombies.

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