Powerful Staff Fighting Techniques
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by: TrevelyanKian
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Just turning on the TV and flipping through the channels will give you a taste of just about any other weapons-based martial art. Most people know about karate or sword fighting, but very little people can tell you much about staff fighting techniques. If more people knew just how effective and devastating this weapon can be, it would certainly get a lot more attention.
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.
Whether your opponent throws a punch or a kick at you, you can use the staff to block or parry virtually any strike. If you're unfortunate enough to get caught in a hold, you can even use the staff to break out of it.
The staff has been used as a powerful weapon by many cultures around the globe, and each one has developed staff fighting techniques unique to their country.
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 fight with staffs of different lengths. There's the han-bo, which is a 3 foot long half-staff, and then there's the jo, a 4 foot long staff.
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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