How to Throw a Bo Staff

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Hi, my name is Caleb Labarda. I'm here with Expert Village, and today I'm going to be going over beginning bo staff. Alright next we're going to be going over how to throw our bo up into the air, which will look like this. Going all the way up, nice toss into the air. So what I'm doing, I'm doing my finger spin. I'm holding it here, going through my fingers. As I'm coming, all I'm doing is flicking my thumb and it shoots right into the air. So one, bam, all up to the air. Now when you throw it, just practice this -put in your right hand, toss, catch with your left hand. One more time. Left hand, toss, catch with your left hand. Okay? Now when we do it, go ahead and hold it now palm down, now we're just going to turn our wrist and throw it straight up. So, once you throw it up and do a full spin, go all the way around, catch with the left hand. One more time. From here go up, catch, go with the left hand. So now go ahead and go into your throws. You can do it either way. You can go around the wrist, palm closed, straight up into the air. Or, go through the fingers. One, through the fingers and then toss. We handle it like a pencil, you just toss it, and kind of flick your thumb and it goes up for you. So, one, two, there we go. Never reach for the bo, reach up for it, you'll lose it. Just put your hand right in front of you, chest level, and it'll fall right into your hand. Watch. My hand's chest level and it goes right into my hand. One more time, there we go, just like that, and that's going to be a throw. You can go from around the back into a throw, you go around the back, over the head, around the back one more time into a throw. You can just make up your own combos and do it anyway you want. You can do a look-away throw. Catch, bam, you look away. It looks pretty cool. If you get really good, get a high ceiling throw up in the air. You can do a full 360, bam all the way to the catch. But that's going to take a lot of practice, so make sure you get that down first.

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