Japanese Karate Sensei Reacts To A Martial Art from The UK｜Quarterstaff

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As I'm the guy in the film (the good looking one with the hair) I'd like to thank you for an interesting outsiders view, if you are in London please pop by and visit with us. I can confirm there is no taper to the staff, we can reverse the staff and use the other end without any problems. We train mainly with 6 foot staff, but these are technically too short, 7 or 8 foot are easy to manage, but not easy to buy or move on public transport. And yes, we are different, but we all do a lot of the same things.

3:20 No, the quarterstaff is supposed to be equally thick throughout its length. Some modern training staves might be tapered at one end to fit a spear-head or other polearm-head, but that's a design flaw deliberately included for the sake of convenience. A historically accurate quarterstaff would be balanced exactly at the centre, and have the same diameter end-to-end.

Hello, if you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch - I'm the guy in the shorts with the tattoo. Thanks for taking the time to review our video.

In Portugal we have something similar, called "Jogo do Pau," it's origin story is that of a shepperd's martial art, the bo is just their walking stick. If first gained notoriety during WW1, as they had better than average bayonet skills, so the British kept pushing them towards the front line. Not that it did any good, there were high casualties. The staff art itself re-emerged around fifteen years ago, when they tried to make it look more Eastern, you know, for marketing. It didn't work I think, but there are some cool videos of it on here.

You should look into HEMA. Their swordfighting approach definitely has similarities as well as noticeable contrasts with katana practitioner.

i think the staff is the most practical off all the ancient weapons

Hi, I think that's HEMA you should check out other weapons too (Y) it's interesting to see the difference between European and Oriental martial arts

Fundamentals of fighting is to seek advantage and a reach advantage is the most defensive & offensive minded approach. Once you get into close range, then a middle grip on the bo let’s you deliver successive blows quicker. Schola Gladitoria has at least one video on the spear and the various holds on the weapon that shows the versatility of pole weapons in general for short all the way to long range. The fact that the upper block here & in kobudo involves holding the pole in the middle shows the utility in countering, but in the mid range you can equally threaten a strike on either side of the pole or a tsuki, so the default hold in kobodu is a good place to train day to day but just as kata give a full range of possible solutions and in actual fights you must select the one that works best, so too, in bo (or spear, nunti bo, naginata, etc) starting at longest range in a fight wouldn’t be a bad idea.

As an instructor of English martial arts- in our club we focus on longsword, backsword, sword & buckler and quarter staff (primarily). It is the English manner to hold the quarterstaff towards one end of the staff. There are three staffs represented in the English martial arts: a short staff which is proportionately like a walking stick, a quarterstaff which is often around 8' long and a longstaff which can be up to 15' long. The primary sources for staff fighting in England come from historical treatises such as George Silver's Paradoxes of Defence and Zachary Wyldes treatise. The club you are reviewing here doesn't utilize proper protective gear whilst training and this is an anomaly among the greater HEMA community. Typically we wear fencing masks and gloves for controlled drilling and additional padded jackets for sparring. Thanks for the review as I am often interested in seeing the perspectives of other practitioners from other disciplines.

"All martial arts become very similar at the end" - SO true. I did Uechi Ryu for years, modern fencing, HEMA, I'm an avid boxing fan (never practiced), and the more I learn about each of them, the more they're all really the same. I think the differences really come in at the front end (the "broad strokes" so to speak - strategy, stances, how a fist is held, etc.) and in the rules for competitive sports. In other words, the differences feel really superficial at best, and artificial at worst.

Well done excellent material keep learning adapting realize you make it and there are no limits and you can achieve anything all the martial Journey 👍

I think all martial artists should learn from everyone, " no one country has a monopoly on the sun or martial knowledge"

Let’s complete the bo (staff) set with Chinese Gun shu!! This may be too off topic, but there are some cool Indigenous, Polynesian (Maori), & African martial arts you should check out

Wing Chun staff is also held in that style where it's uncentered and closer towards the back end of the staff

I'd like to see you do a review/view of Shang-Chi

I practice both HEMA and Karate, and I can tell you that we do have forms in HEMA, but they're not practiced in the same way The old masters like Meyer, Fiore, Talhoffer, etc. teach the forms and show them in their writings, but specifically tell you not to stay in one for too long. You should know the form and how to flow from one to the other, but use them more as snapshots of a fight and not a static position. I hope to get a better camera soon and show more sparring on my channel.

I am a recent subscriber and I have found your instructional style very informative and helpful, and you are also humble and respectful. I enjoy your content very much, and I look forward to learning more from your videos! Thank you!

You could also check out "Bartitsu", which developed between 1898 and 1902 in England (according to wikipedia).

HEMA tends to be focused on all aspects of armed fighting from the weapons usage to grappling and boxing to dealing with fully armoured opponents. With a nice complement of sneaky beaky tricks