CLUB

A club is a Arme primitive, even basic of the weapons known as of fray or contact.

Morphologiquement, the club is large a Bâton makes to brutally strike its adversary or anything else. It is generally used with a Main, nevertheless there exist clubs requiring the two hands of the Guerrier, they are called Quarterstaff S in English.

In the popular imagery, the club (or bludgeon ) is associated with the cave men. It is present in many prehistoric fictions. However, no archaeological discovery made it possible to attest its real use during the Préhistoire.

Quotation

To arm the hand with the primitive man of a bludgeon seems to us perfectly natural, but it would be vain to seek of them the traces in the windows of the museums or the archaeological files. The bludgeon is not there. On the other hand, it carries out an extremely rich existence in the field of the imaginary one. One invariably finds it between the hands of the creatures which, just as the prehistoric man, express a mixture of animal and human features. In the Greek Mythology, the Centaur S and silenes were carrying bludgeons, of which they were used for to fight against the wild animals.

Attribute

The club is, with the skin of lion, the attribute of Hercules in the visual arts.

Specialized clubs and sticks

These various weapons are evolutions of the club but adapted for their users, in particular of the practitioners of Martial arts and the Policier S:
  • the Bludgeon, arms traditional with the police officers, is a stick a generally less long than arm and made Bois, of plastic Métal or . Until the beginning of the Années 1990 the English police officers (bobbies) used bludgeons out of wooden, which they recently replaced by telescopic bludgeons.
  • the Beater of Baseball, is sometimes used as a weapon.
  • the Maglite

See too

  • the Mass of weapon, an evolution of the club.
  • In the vulgar language, the club can indicate the Pénis.

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