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Staff Videos

Rather than link to all the staff videos available online these days, I'm just going to maintain a staff playlist over at you tube.

I'm not going to put every bo, stick and staff video available on the list -- that would be thousands, and a waste of everyone's time. I'm just going to include the ones that are representative of a style, are particularly well done, are unique, or just catch my fancy.

I've divided it into several sections:

Historical Staff, for older clips
Staff Traditions, for videos that represent a martial tradition
Staff in the Movies, for clips from films
Staff, General, for everything else

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Hu's Monkey Staff

This performance of a monkey staff routine by Grandmaster Hu Jianqiang is, to my knowlege, the best of its kind. The soundtrack is HORRIBLE, and I recommend TURNING THE SOUND OFF before watching. Terrible voiceover and added swish sounds. Master Hu now teaches in the USA
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Western Wushu 3 VCD Set

This set of three VCDs is not an instructional video but an overview of Western Chinese Wushu styles. The good thing about this is that it has an enormous number of demonstrations: in addition to ten staff forms there are forms for the stick, spear, three-sectional staff, two-sectional staff, whip chains, broadsword, tonfa, and others (some of the weapons I don't know the names of). There are a few empty hand forms as well. The bad thing... well, it's only bad if you don't speak Mandarin. There is extensive narration and what I assume is historical background information. Perhaps it's quite good. I don't know.

When I purchased this it was listed as being by Master Sui Bing Liu, but there are several other performers, ranging in age from about 16 to 66. This makes for interesting watching, since many of the forms have stylistic similarities and it allows for a comparison of personal touches. Also from the ad: "This Set that show a lot of the different sets in the Western Staff style. Among them are the Black Tiger, White Eyebrow, Winding Sea, Fanzi Fist, Fanzi Spear, and many more. No breakdowns, just sets with different sections on the background of the instructors and the sets." A sample form can be viewed here at youtube.

Part of the 'Sports' VCD series [more HERE, 2nd paragraph], but, since it's not instructional, doesn't follow the same pattern as the others.

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