Figure Eight Bo Staff 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. O.k. so now, for the next move, you just saw me doing, that's called your figure eight's or your exes. O.k, this is either for an offensive or defensive move, o.k. If you want to get opponents away from you, you can attack them like this, or you can back up and it's a defensive move, it will also protect you, alright. So, what I'm going to do is, make sure you hold the Bo properly, right hand up, left hand down. Now, the one, the side with my right hand up, I'm going to pretend there's a huge paddle on it, o.k. Pretend I'm in a boat, so that's kind of an easy way to do it. So, hold it up like this, so now I'm going to paddle on the right side of the boat, paddle this side, and then keep paddling this side, but if I keep paddling on one side, I'm going to end up going in circles, so I need to paddle both sides. So, come on this side, then hold it up, o.k. now, go ahead and go down and paddle, the other side. One, go down, up, and the other side, one, two, one, two, o.k, so right side, left side, right side, left side, good. And, keep it paddling, and then as you get it in a nice flowing motion and as you can see, as I'm doing it, I've got, my right hand is guiding it and my left hand is just pushing the Bo to keep it moving. And, if you get it really good, what you want to do, hold it to about two fist links above from the middle and then you can do it with one hand. There you go, so that's what it's going to look like with one hand, sideways. And then when you practice have your other hand here by your face, just in case you mess up and get too close and knock you across the head. So, that's going to also protect you, so right here, across for your eight's. And look here, you can also go around the wrist and go into throws from here, around the back, stop, bam, go back into your figure eight's, or your exes. And that's going to be called your figure eight's and that's another really cool move that you can use with your Extreme Bo Staff. "