Ribs: oh, yes. Very much yes. Broken ribs make it incredibly painful just to breathe, and nearly impossible to move. If the rib's properly broken instead of just cracked, there are also terrific odds of it puncturing something. Like the liver, or a lung. Break a rib right off the spine...
Scale: I'm a 56kg woman, about your MC's age. If I land a well-executed empty-hand strike, I can break someone's jaw or rib, no problem. Give me a baseball bat, and if I was coming at someone from behind I'd be aiming for the top of their hips - nobody's getting up with a broken hip, and I can manage that much force with that sort of a weapon.
Knees are a TV target. They're small and difficult to aim for. A person with minimal training, and particularly one who is likely to be smaller and lighter, will go for a big target and one that'll cause the most damage. Aiming down give more force than aiming up. So ribs, kidneys (nobody's getting up from a baseball bat to a kidney, okay), calves.
If she has even minimal relevant training, she'll go for a two-strike sequence. The first paralyzes the second neutralizes - i.e. the second strike causes more damage/pain, the first one just buys time. So if going for someone's knees to make them fall, second strike will go to the abdomen (impossible to miss, and standing person going at a prone one with a baseball bat will cause significant damage). If going for the ribs, both hits will go there.
Also consider snap kicks. They're vicious little things, fairly easy to learn to execute right. Snap kicks and stomps are both first-line self-defence attacks.
(If using hands, stick to palm-heel or knife-hand. Nobody who knows what they're doing will use a fist if they have a choice about it.)
If coming from the front and she has the angle for it, shoulders are awesome. They're full of nerves (excruciating pain) and hard to miss. Alt., get someone in the knee/calf to make them fall then stomp on their shoulder - they won't be getting up any time soon. Note that this is a higher risk move, and in the situation you describe I think person who's comfortable with prudent ruthlessness will go for something more immediately destructive.
Her training (so far) is defensive - similar to aikido, with a few hard-to-block cheap shots designed to give her a chance to run. Occam's Razor says the guard may have better training than she does; ergo, stay out of reach and fight dirty.
Not only is the club a possible defensive tool, but it maximizes power from both arms and the hips/legs.
Oh, she's pretty skinny for that height. Body composition? How much of that is muscle - about average, hobby athlete, pro athlete? Also, unless this is set in Belgium or something like that, she'll be very nearly the guard's height, which changes the game.
Aikido's excellent. The main thing even minimal (weeks) Aikido training will give her is knowing how to maximize force. For maximum effectiveness, mix it with krav maga. Krav maga's all about maximum damage in minimum moves; it makes a potent combo with Aikido. Aikido's a soft empty-hand art, so it'll give her about nothing with regards to knowing where to hit for maximum damage. (On the other hand, if someone tries to land a hand on her, they'll be in for a surprise.) Krav maga will cover that angle. (Amusingly, everything I said above I learned from a person with this training combo.)
Assuming your MC has hobby-athlete muscle % or better and knows how to work from the hips, she can very easily kill with something akin to a baseball bat. And I very much second the kidneys as something to aim for - even if she misses, she'll get either the ribs or the pelvis, so win either way. (Pelvis, that's the one I meant earlier: not the hips. Non-native English speaker here.) The guard will likely fall to the ground; follow that up with a good hard stomp (heel first) - shoulder or basically anywhere in the torso. (There's a ganglion in the shoulder I forgot the name of; that's her target there.) Another club swing will be a bad idea as it'll send her out of balance. Alt., she can aim a snap-kick to the side of his torso (ribs or kidneys) - or the head, if that what she has in range.
Scale: I'm a 56kg woman, about your MC's age. If I land a well-executed empty-hand strike, I can break someone's jaw or rib, no problem. Give me a baseball bat, and if I was coming at someone from behind I'd be aiming for the top of their hips - nobody's getting up with a broken hip, and I can manage that much force with that sort of a weapon.
Knees are a TV target. They're small and difficult to aim for. A person with minimal training, and particularly one who is likely to be smaller and lighter, will go for a big target and one that'll cause the most damage. Aiming down give more force than aiming up. So ribs, kidneys (nobody's getting up from a baseball bat to a kidney, okay), calves.
If she has even minimal relevant training, she'll go for a two-strike sequence. The first paralyzes the second neutralizes - i.e. the second strike causes more damage/pain, the first one just buys time. So if going for someone's knees to make them fall, second strike will go to the abdomen (impossible to miss, and standing person going at a prone one with a baseball bat will cause significant damage). If going for the ribs, both hits will go there.
Also consider snap kicks. They're vicious little things, fairly easy to learn to execute right. Snap kicks and stomps are both first-line self-defence attacks.
(If using hands, stick to palm-heel or knife-hand. Nobody who knows what they're doing will use a fist if they have a choice about it.)
If coming from the front and she has the angle for it, shoulders are awesome. They're full of nerves (excruciating pain) and hard to miss. Alt., get someone in the knee/calf to make them fall then stomp on their shoulder - they won't be getting up any time soon. Note that this is a higher risk move, and in the situation you describe I think person who's comfortable with prudent ruthlessness will go for something more immediately destructive.
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Her training (so far) is defensive - similar to aikido, with a few hard-to-block cheap shots designed to give her a chance to run. Occam's Razor says the guard may have better training than she does; ergo, stay out of reach and fight dirty.
Not only is the club a possible defensive tool, but it maximizes power from both arms and the hips/legs.
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Aikido's excellent. The main thing even minimal (weeks) Aikido training will give her is knowing how to maximize force. For maximum effectiveness, mix it with krav maga. Krav maga's all about maximum damage in minimum moves; it makes a potent combo with Aikido. Aikido's a soft empty-hand art, so it'll give her about nothing with regards to knowing where to hit for maximum damage. (On the other hand, if someone tries to land a hand on her, they'll be in for a surprise.) Krav maga will cover that angle. (Amusingly, everything I said above I learned from a person with this training combo.)
Assuming your MC has hobby-athlete muscle % or better and knows how to work from the hips, she can very easily kill with something akin to a baseball bat. And I very much second the kidneys as something to aim for - even if she misses, she'll get either the ribs or the pelvis, so win either way. (Pelvis, that's the one I meant earlier: not the hips. Non-native English speaker here.) The guard will likely fall to the ground; follow that up with a good hard stomp (heel first) - shoulder or basically anywhere in the torso. (There's a ganglion in the shoulder I forgot the name of; that's her target there.) Another club swing will be a bad idea as it'll send her out of balance. Alt., she can aim a snap-kick to the side of his torso (ribs or kidneys) - or the head, if that what she has in range.
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