Crowbar Combat

2 of 3: An X Reader Wishes to Survive Orkocracy: 5/17/24

Limitations and potentials of the prybar as an improvised weapon.

Training Tools

-Large prybar

-Small prybar

-Hanging snake [200 feet of rope coiled into a six foot hanging target, as thick as a human neck, with the bottom bulb hanging at hip level]

-Post/tree, stump

I recommend, for all, progressing along this trajectory and becoming a Prybar Master, as your Groe Foes desire deeply to be mastered at your ominous hands. The least you can do for these poor squabbling souls is to reclaim the throne in their dark hearts abdicated by Your Feckless Sires.

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Citizen Prybar

Normal People, sub-gorilla grade humans, who wish to do battle with the pry bar need the large version, which is about 30 inches long. A normal person that uses a small prybar must also use it as a large one, as one-handed use is likely to pose challenges in combat and cause injury in training. This is to be used as a carbine with bayonet, with some modifications.

Grab the bar at the base of the crook, so that the forward turning crows foot acts something like the knuckle bow of a sword—your ORK sword!

The base thumb of your dominant hand is facing forward.

Grab the bar halfway to ¾ up to the chisel point with the inside of the weak hand palm in and knuckles out, with the left thumb pointing back at the strong thumb. If you must lose a finger, make it the pinkie.

Both hands should be wrapped in a hammer grip, no thumb or forefinger rising along the bar.

The foreward hand grip, against unarmed packs [unarmed packs being the perfect foe for this weapon], may be used to stab in a lateral inward thrust, hooking the back hand with the left lead. If you score a thrust, or miss, rip back with the front point and hook in with the crook foot.

Practice a lateral to diagonal arc, with the sweeping chisel point, if it misses, giving way to the hooking crook foot crook.

Add foot shifts, stepping back with the outward sweeping point stab, stepping forward with the inward hooking crook, then stepping in with the outward sweeping point, then back with the inward hooking crook.

Practice shadow fencing, shift stepping and shuffle stepping against imaginary foes.

Put on gloves and practice against a hanging snake or hanging grappling dummy wrapped in gorilla tape.

Now practice against a post, stump or tree and work out a good grip for not bruising your finger bones on the steely ridges of your ork sword.

Then, once grip has been adjusted, not squeezing tight until impact, and hands have been toughened, take off the gloves.

This done, practice thrusting at the face by sliding the rear hand forward using the lead hand like a loose sight and guide.

Then practice holding the bar in both hands with the base being the chisel point with the left hand 1 to 4 fingers above the chisel shaped pummel, pulling and the right hand forward and pushing, to wield this like a crook shaped steel club, using the same shift steps in and out and around. This has limited utility unless you are the attacker. But, it is good for practicing finishing and for conditioning the hands by beating hard on a stump. Be care full not to bounce the crow foot back into your face.

Thrusting with the crook end is likely to score but also be snagged or grabbed.

Take it slow, Citizen Prybar.

Then, practice the Boatman’s Stroke, using the crow foot as a rib removal, skull sheering meatcan opener. Turn that stump to wood chips.

Roll your wrists before training.

Stretch the forearms after.

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Combatant Prybar

A trained stick fighter, with highly developed forearms that has done extensive power hitting drills and has competed in full contact minimal gear stick fights—yes, all three dozen of you guys, worldwide.

Use a shoulder load position and then stroke like this is a sword, not a stick. Do not break your wrist, but maintain a locked wrist as you stroke out and then in, not across. Use diagonals, not vertical or lateral.

Step with every stroke—every stroke.

No flourishes or jabs.

This tool could ruin your wrist if you do jabs, redondoes or pull a stroke short in training.

Slash through and thrust, with the slash taking you to a diagonal inward point on position.

Pull the crooked butt of your slash to your hip and then thrust backhand in supination, passing the point up to the right and pulling the crook back to right side shoulder load.

From right shoulder load you can thrust inward in pronation and then arc the weapon down to the hip and up high to do a downward slash, keeping the wrist locked.

Play with this patiently, Combatant Prybar.

Sword and machete experience will help.

Coming straight from stick and knife you will be challenged by the octagonal grip which slides in a big hand and by the limitation placed on wrist mobility by the heavy weight.

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Predator Prybar

Genetic freaks, burly carpenters, college wrestlers, MMA fighters who have deadlift grip strength—you know, guys that don’t need an equalizer, but just want to have goonish fun!

You may use the large prybar with one hand, like a small prybar, and dispense Steely Angelic Woe among the Deserved Spawn of Groe!

The most important thing for you is to post off of standing casualties as starting blocks for launching counterattacks against his jabbering fellows.

Be respectful. Some say that Achilles was doomed to lordship in Hades because he did not respect Hector’s body.

Use the hook to drag the slain to the banks of the River Styx, and be a good fellow and tip the Boatman.