The quarterstaff

I can’t even imagine how long a wholestaff must be.

quarterstaff the preferred weapon of wizards throughout history.

"I don't think the English can claim to have invented the big stick" Oh yes we did, how dare you! Unpatriotic! Treason! Shame! All sticks were small to medium sized until we came along! Call Yourself an Englishman?! Love your videos btw, thanks for this.

"Actually, it's a buck and a quarter quarter staff, but I'm not telling HIM that!" , Daffy Duck

"You want the shaft to be hard and stiff and be able to slide it around in your hands". Oooookaaay

Quarterstaff: A retired spear that got fat & lost it's point.

The French were also masters in the Quarterstaff. Oh wait, those were Baguettes...

I imagine that sometimes an iron ring would be added on each end, not only for the extra weight, but also in case the wood should start to split on impact, the rings would help hold the staff together a bit longer, which you'd definitely want if you were in the middle of a fight. Same for wrapping cord, or leather strips around it.

Is an expert with a quarterstaff called a quartermaster?

if you think about it the quaterstaff is one giant pommel.

When I was a teenager, a long time ago, I called it a walking stick or hiking stave. A friend and I hiked with them and they were useful for making our way through brush, up steep hillsides, through swampy water . . . We never needed them for self defense. But we had them.

Hmm, coming from a woodworking background, I believe that 'stave' is a term for a split blank, mostly from the old bodgers/chair makers. That is the proper way to make a staff. The ash one you hold in your hand is obviously not split and has cross grain in the top part of it, which will guarantee a crack following the grain eventually. A ferule on the end, which would have meant the iron rings you mentioned are for preventing cracking on the end, especially under heavy use. This is on all wood lathe tools. I have wondered about the Wing Chung staff, which was long and tapered. I have wondered if the design came from using a branch, which does taper from one end to the other. Bamboo would not work well, but the rattan I have seen is all fairly even thickness. The way it flexes as it is used adds another technique to be used...

"Big sticks that you hit people with" That's what brings me to this channel :-)

All weapons are derived from "The Big Stick". After all, hammers and poleaxes/polearms are "Big Sticks" with tactical attachments. And swords are sharpened "Big Sticks" made of metal, with optional guards. And arrows are short "Big Sticks" that you fling with elasticated launch mechanisms.

"There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory." ~Clint Eastwood

“I’ve also seen quarterstaffs made with an iron cap on either end, sort of a tube...” OH GOD DONT RUIN IT PLEASE DONT RUIN THE COOL QUARTERSTAFF “...that is perfectly feasible.” OH GOD YES

"a really big stick is pretty difficult to beat" That one has to be deliberate :)

2 quarterstaves should be an halfstaff, isn't it.

Imagine uou enlist to army in medieval times, excited to make serious fighting but they just give you a stick and a torn gambeson with blood stains (then you starve to death because army was running low on supplies)

8:42 "Scouts were scouts in these days, they learned whacking each other with sticks, they got to carry proper knives, they did responsible things and... well, that's been lost". 100% about the Soviet pioneers.