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Martial Staff

2007

Welcome to Martial Staff

Staff, Bo, Kon, Cudgel... a long stick that has been used for defense and excercise for millenia.

The staff is the most beautiful and simple of weapons, and every tradition, form, and technique has something to offer its students.

The blog format of MartialStaff.com reflects its ever-changing, ever-incomplete nature. If you want to suggest an addition, or point out a error, please let me know.

--Squidocto

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A Brief Staff Vocabulary

Bo - Japanese staff.
Cudgel - Chinese staff.
Grande canne, or grand baton - French short staff.
Gun - Chinese staff (often translated as 'cudgel').
Jang Bong - Korean staff
Jo - Japanese short staff.
Kon - Okinawan staff.
Gusan - Okinawan short staff.
Bangkaw - Philippine staff.
Jogo do Pau - Portugese staff.
Quarterstaff - English staff.

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Chinese translation help?

I don't speak or read Chinese, but I would very much like to know what the names of these Western Wushu staff forms are. Please contact me (see left sidebar) if you can help out. Thanks in advance!

One "Taming Tiger Staff" thanks, Russ!
Two
Three
Four

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2006

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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