Bo Staff Techniques for the Martial Arts

Video Transcript

"We're going to talk today about six traditional martial arts weapons. Now we're going to talk about the techniques of the bow staff, I'm going to use my student here Nolan to demonstrate two of the techniques. So I go to a down strike, he's actually going to take my weapon and do a technique called a strip away. He'll go on this side of my weapon, hook in, and flip my weapon back, taking it out of my hand. Again, going back, he hooks in, now keep in mind he does not hook in towards my arm, he hooks in towards my weapon and pries my fingers off. From there I'm left defenseless and he can go in with more strikes. A second technique, I'll set my bow off to the side a second, a second technique is I'm here and he strikes in the back of my leg. It's called a knee strike, strike into the back of the knee which forces my knee forward. When he forces my knee forward he has a perfect shot to my back foot in which he does what we call pool key thrust, which is very similar to the game of pool, thrusting. OK, go ahead and try it again. There, OK, set up for the technique, strike the back of my knee. Strikes and then again, thrust. Stand attention, bow, bow. And those are just two of the techniques that are used with the bow staff."