How to Hold a Bo Staff

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Part of the video series: Martial Art Bo Staff Techniques

Summary: Learning how to hold a bo staff is important for martial arts weapons techniques. Get tips from an expert on bo staff techniques in this free martial arts video.

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Caleb Labarda Caleb Labarda is a 22 year old Taekwondo black belt. He has been studying martial arts since he was eight years old. Caleb earned his first black belt at the ... read more

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Absolutly Brilliant! Have'nt felt this kind of enthusiasm in years, was inspired by a film very recently "Forbidden Kingdom" and someone throwing a larger one around at a festival in kent, just watched all the training video's which were mesmerising to say the least, i've found what i was exactly looking for, thankyou ;0)

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How to Hold a Bo Staff

Hi, my name's Caleb Labarda, I'm here with Expert Village, and today I'm going to be going over beginning Bo staff. Already, first let's go and get over on how you hold the Bo staff, ok. So if you're right handed, you're always going to have your right hand up, and left hand down. It should never switch, you should never hold it like this, do any of your strikes like this, 'k, 'that?s incorrect, maybe if you're doing more of a traditional Bo, but this is going to be for fast, for some fast movements, for some showy stuff, it's going to be really fancy, So make sure you have your right hand up, left hand down, and you, as you do it, you are going to move up and down your Bo, as you do some different kind of strikes, and everything, but your hands will always, should always be in this position. Never turn your hand over, do any, do any of these strikes like that, 'cause that's incorrect, you're not going to have, you're going to lose control of your Bo, 'K. Also, if you're left-handed, you can do it the other way, left hand up, right hand down, so if you're left handed; your left hand is going to lead your Bo into all your strikes. Like I said, go ahead and make sure when you hold your bow, you want to hold it right in the middle of your Bo, you should have a nice, nice weighted Bo, so it's weighted in the middle, 'K, and then you want to hold it right in the middle, hold it about a hand, hand-length apart so if you put it on the middle, one hand length apart, and that's going to be where you want to hold your bow. Remember always, right hand up, left hand down, or if you're left handed, left hand up, right hand down.

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