mastering the pillow fight

so basically this weekend there was a massive pillow fight in the loudest room in the Embassy Suites. So there were these long pillows like the one you see above. and i was getting hit really hard with those, i got hit so hard that i fell off the bed. Well anyways, i took one of the long ones and was holding it by the end and holding it out. This did not seem to be working. Generally speaking this is because there is no torque acting upon it since the what i was thinking was the lever arm was not because it was not perpendicular to the pillow. So i put my hand perpendicular to it, thus having more control over where it goes so that it isnt just going anywhere it wants to, not to say that it has a mind of its own. =]