Why is the baseball bat grip the standard for club and bat weapons across martial arts?

[Bullsherdog]

Notice this true be it the Samurai Kanabo, Indian Club exercise tools, and pretty any club/bat weapon.


Why is this? Can someone explain from a physical mechanism terms what makes the standard baseball grip more effective?

 

[frank raud]

Grab a club with one hand thumb up and the other hand thumb down. Notice how this limits your motion.. Grab the same club with both thumbs down. Notice how this limits your motion. Grab the same club with both thumbs up. Notice how you can swing freely, generating power.

 

[frank raud]

were the answers you received a year ago when you asked the same question on another forum not good enough? Why is the baseball bat grip the standard for club and bat weapons across martial arts? : martialarts (reddit.com)

 

[Deleted member 39746]

Im going to point out a cultrual element here, you draw how to do something from past experiences. In the same way someone who has only done longsword would treat a staff like a longsword, if you did baseball (or any bat sport) you would porbbly insert how you held it and swung it in the situation as its the only informstion you have. Or if you have only seen it done like that.