Bo Staff Wrist Spin Techniques

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Caleb Labarda. I'm here with Expert Village, and today I'm going to be going over beginning bo staff. Alright now let's go ahead and go over how we're going to be spinning our bo around our wrist. So you can go with just a one-hand spin, go around, and then go back, and that also helps you go, when you start going to throws, that's going to help you really get the speed and momentum going instead of just going through your fingers. Going through your fingers you can also go above the head for the helicopter spins, but this one you mostly want to do around the wrist when you go into throws. So let's go ahead and go over that. From here, hold it, find the middle of your bo, okay? Hold it here, go all the way. Practice flipping it around the wrist and then flipping it back over. Going one, and back over. So it's going to look like this -you have it here, here's the middle of my bo, I'm going to hold it right here, to the right of the middle, I'm going to just practice slipping it around and then all the way back. So then I catch it. I go pass the middle and I catch it on the other side of the bo. You can see in my bo I have a...this would be the center, this is where I like to put my hands, right at the edges of my black tape. If you want to mark your bos, that's a good way to do it. So from here once again, one, spin over the wrist, and back over. Okay? One, just let it roll around the wrist, and roll it back over. And then it'd help too if you do just your front spins. Go through here, instead of doing through the fingers, just go around the wrist each time. There you go. So make sure you get that move down because it's really going to help you out as we start getting more into some throws and some harder difficult moves."