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Some blackthorns are so enormously heavy that it is next to impossible to do any quick effective work with them, and one is reminded, on seeing a man “over sticked,”-if I may be allowed such an expression-of Lord Dundreary’s riddle, “Why does a dog wag his tail? Because the dog is stronger than the tail,” or of David in Saul’s armour. The weight of the stick is an important matter to consider. Let’s check with Allanson-Winn, who wrote a little bit about bataireacht in his book Broadsword and Singlestick: (Again, what I am going to say applies only to Antrim Bata, other styles may have their own rationales)Īs I teach a traditional style, I always like to look back into history to see what people thought was a great fighting stick. So let’s talk about it then, how heavy does a shillelagh really need to be? This is the image that has been presented of a shillelagh in popular culture, and surely that’s what a bata fundamentally is? Right? A lot of people come to us expecting that we will be using large and heavy clubs. The main reason being that I get a few people discovering bataireacht and being surprised at the weight of the shillelaghs we use. Here is a subject I have been wanting to tackle for a while.