Video: Types of Bo Staffs

Rattan bo staffs are generally double headed while white wax wood staffs are tapered on one end. Learn about the differences between double-headed bo staffs and tapered bo staffs in this free video.

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Hi my name is Dan Schmidt from the Chinese Martial Arts Center in Seminole and today in this clip we are going to be discussing the different types of staffs. So mainly there is this kind of staff rattan. It is also known as a double headed staff. It is called double headed because it is of equal thickness throughout the staff on each end. It is a very flexible type of wood and it is very strong. It will last a very long time. Double headed also means that you do one move with one end and then immediately you will do another move with the other end of the stick. So this way. The move will go side to side, up and down with varying techniques. So this is a very pliable type of wood. It has to be the same width from the top all the way to the bottom and the size of the staff depends on what you are doing. Mainly the staff would be about as tall as you are or sometimes it could be a little bit taller. There is also other kinds of staffs, the eyebrow type staff where it goes up to the eyebrow height or another type of staff comes up to about the arm pit height depending. Mainly they are all used the same but this is your most basic type of staff and your most traditional one. Then there is this kind. This is a white wood wax wood staff and this is commonly what you see today. This is used throughout modern China. It is made of a different kind of wood as I mentioned white wax wood and it is tapered on one end and it gets thicker towards the bottom on the other end. That is so, this is a lighter type of wood and in the competitions they like to be very very fast so this looks a little more impressive. What they do is they do the same types of movements but due to the weight being a little bit heavier on one end it makes your flowers and the different techniques a lot faster and those are the different types of staffs.

Types of Bo Staffs

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