Expandable Batons

Protect yourself with a solid steel expandable baton.  Don't become a victim, become aware of your personal security.

An expandable telescopic baton is a powerful and intimidating self-defense tool and is one of the best impact weapons available.  Gain the advantage of surprise and distance.

Expandable batons, also called telescopic batons, retractable batons, steel batons, tactical batons, metal batons, or security batons.  These are the same non-lethal weapon used by police, security, and military personnel around the world.  One of the reasons why they are so popular is because they give you a little bit of distance, they hit hard and are effective at stopping an attacker in a dangerous situation.  These are very intimidating, and most criminals understand how powerful these weapons are, and will usually back down when they see one.

Expandable baton, as an impact tool, can be used to strike, jab and block and to aid arm locks. To open, you simply flick your wrist quickly to expand it to it's full size.  To close, you simply slam the baton straight down on a hard surface like the floor or a table (see our short video below with Julia demonstrating).  Besides being used as a weapon, they also come in handy and can be employed to break windows, break the safety glass surrounding fire extinguisher enclosures, or lever open doors to gain entry to vehicles or structures.

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Side-handle batons, typified by Monadnock PR-24 and made infamous by the LAPD in the Rodney King beating, come in both rigid and expandable models. The rigid models are typically made of polycarbonate. The expandable models usually have an aluminum chassis from which a polycarbonate section extends. Almost all side-handle batons in use are made by Monadnock.

Side handle batons are derived from the tonfa, a Japanese martial arts weapon, and are used with a similar fighting technique.

Both types of batons have their advantages and disadvantages. Side-handle batons are more flexible, enabling many more kinds of strike and block, but they require more training to use than straight batons. Side-handle batons are also very bulky. Expandable straight batons are more compact and are easier to carry covertly and when driving.

Up until the mid- 1990s British police officers carried traditional wooden truncheons of a sort which had changed little from Victorian times, but since the early1990s all forces have chosen to replace truncheons with more modern side-handle and telescopic batons for all but ceremonial duties.