Effective Staff Fighting Techniques
Trevelyan Kian
What with all the many different and often romanticized fighting styles, staff fighting is a discipline that isn't getting much attention.
While almost every other weapons-based martial art has received the lion's share of attention over the years from TV, movies and the various media, relatively little is known about staff fighting techniques. If more people were aware of how effective and devastating this weapon is however, it would surely receive far more attention than it does now.
Even so, staff fighting is getting noticed a little more lately. A popular TV program recently showed a feature that covered different martial arts weapons, and one of them was the staff. The show demonstrated just how powerful and efficient this humble weapon can be when wielded by a trained expert.
Capable of delivering a wide range of strikes from sweeps to glides to skull crushing blows and even jabs, staff fighting techniques are certainly something to be reckoned with. In fact, when faced with the prospect of a swirling staff that you have little or no chance of blocking or intercepting, the outcome of the combat will more likely than not favor the staff fighter.
Although the staff is an impressive weapon for offense techniques, it also makes an extremely useful defensive weapon.
The staff can be used to block and parry just about any strike your opponent throws at you, whether it's a kick or a punch. You can even use your staff to break out of your opponent's grip if he catches you in a hold.
Many different cultures have used staffs as weapons, and each culture has developed its own unique rules and methods for staff fighting techniques.
For example, China developed lots of methods and techniques for staff fighting. The staff is an integral part of China's wushu or war arts style.
The Japanese have their own staffs of different lengths. The 4 foot long staff is known as the jo, while the han-bo (half staff) is only 3 foot long.
Everyone from the Koreans, East Indians, and the Filipinos have used staffs as weapons. Even the English once used eight foot long pieces of wood as weapons called quarterstaffs.
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