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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vargo" data-source="post: 656454" data-attributes="member: 4436">My old martial arts instructor summed up our education thus:"Empty-handed martial arts is a struggle to see who gets the weapon first.  After that, it's all over."The above mag-lite suggestion is a good one.  I like the cane idea better - reach is ALWAYS a good thing, because bad stuff happens where they can't reach you.  If you think you can get away with carrying a second cane somewhere, practice escrima - a Filipino marital art focused on two weapon usage.  Very effective.Learn to use terrain to your advantage.  Five versus one can become a series of one on one fights if you can find the right location.I'd tell you to show no mercy to an opponent that falls, but you'd probably get arrested for excessive force.  It's a great way though to establish who's in charge, though, especially if you've only got one primary and a bunch of hanger-ons.  Knock down the primary, beat the heck out of him, and his toadies will likely leave you alone.Plus his toadies will probably leave him, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>