Amazing Staff Fighting Techniques
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Staff fighting is a discipline that is not quite as popular as the other more romanticized and often-depicted fighting styles.
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.
You don’t want to mess with someone who is trained in staff fighting techniques: A properly wielded staff can deliver strikes that sweep, glide, jab, and crush skulls. If you have little or nothing with which to block a twirling staff, the outcome of the battle is almost decidedly in the staff fighter’s favor.
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.
Staffs have actually been used as weapons to great effect by a number of different cultures, and each of them has developed their own unique set of staff fighting techniques.
The staff is an important part of China’s war arts style (wushu). China developed plenty of very effective methods and techniques for fighting with a staff.
The Japanese use several different lengths of staff, among them the 3-foot long han-bo or half-staff and the 4-foot long jo.
Staffs are also used as fighting tools by Koreans, Filipinos, East Indians, and even the English, who used an eight foot long piece of wood called the quarterstaff.
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