How to Hold a Bo Staff

Series Summary

Martial arts training is an excellent way to workout your cardiovascular system and increase agility. Among the martial arts forms, Taekwondo is very acrobatic and requires excellent agility. Taekwondo incorporates kicking, punching, blocking, as well as numerous weapons like the bo staff. Taekwondo is also a good way to build strength, learn how to focus, and learn how to protect yourself.

In this free video series, our expert will show you how to use a bo staff for taekwondo martial arts. Bo staff techniques require a lot of focus and strength and our expert will show you how to hold a bo staff and do basic strikes. You will also learn more advanced forms, such as the wrist spin, helicopter spin and figure eight move. Get tips on how to do stabs and strikes with your bo staff and how to do bo staff moves on your knees. If you are interested in taekwondo or in using a bo staff, let our expert show you everything you need to know.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Caleb Labarda, I'm here with Expert Village, and today I'm going to be going over beginning Bo staff. Already, first let's go and get over on how you hold the Bo staff, ok. So if you're right handed, you're always going to have your right hand up, and left hand down. It should never switch, you should never hold it like this, do any of your strikes like this, 'k, 'that?s incorrect, maybe if you're doing more of a traditional Bo, but this is going to be for fast, for some fast movements, for some showy stuff, it's going to be really fancy, So make sure you have your right hand up, left hand down, and you, as you do it, you are going to move up and down your Bo, as you do some different kind of strikes, and everything, but your hands will always, should always be in this position. Never turn your hand over, do any, do any of these strikes like that, 'cause that's incorrect, you're not going to have, you're going to lose control of your Bo, 'K. Also, if you're left-handed, you can do it the other way, left hand up, right hand down, so if you're left handed; your left hand is going to lead your Bo into all your strikes. Like I said, go ahead and make sure when you hold your bow, you want to hold it right in the middle of your Bo, you should have a nice, nice weighted Bo, so it's weighted in the middle, 'K, and then you want to hold it right in the middle, hold it about a hand, hand-length apart so if you put it on the middle, one hand length apart, and that's going to be where you want to hold your bow. Remember always, right hand up, left hand down, or if you're left handed, left hand up, right hand down."