Kung Fu Bo Staff Poke

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dan Schmidt from the Chinese Martial Arts Center is Seminole, today in this clip we're going to be performing the Kung-Fu Staff Poke. Okay. So when you're here you want a Yin and Yang grip. So you want the rear hand facing downward, you want the front hand facing upward, like this. And you want more length at the end of the staff than you do in the rear. Okay, just a little bit, about maybe two to three width fists grip. Okay. So you're here. So just start standing normal here. You want to step straight out, okay, and bring your front hand out and up, slightly to an angle. Okay. And you want to make sure that you keep the rear hand tightly at the hip. Okay, so the action is this way. Okay, so it's out, slightly up. You don't want the staff too high, you don't want it higher than the top of your head. Mainly this kind of strike would be either use directly at the face, towards the middle of the face or right at the chest. Okay, so when you're here, you pull back slightly, you step out, poke, straight out this way. Okay. So when you perform this technique, okay, you have to make sure that you have the hands properly. Okay. So this is how it's proper. So the hand's right at the hip, this hand straight out, so it's target area's on this area. Okay. Now if he was to hold this hand wrong, okay, he held them too far out, okay, it's very easy to smack the staff, then I can attack from here. So you have to make sure that it's tight. So if it's tight, held at the hip, see, it doesn't really go anywhere. That's how you perform the Poke."