What arts use bo's?

[craigwarren]

Can anyone tell me what martial arts actually use bo's, better yet are there any martial arts which are entirely based around bo's?

[YODA]

Do you mean Bo's as in 6 foot Japanese staff or just staffs in general.

Many Filipino arts include staff - it's an area im working on in particular myself at the moment.

[craigwarren]

Thanx yoda, actually i was suppost to go to your class for martial arts against cancer at heriot watt but i was called into work. Are there any places in central scotland where staff techniques are taught?

[YODA]

Not that I know of - maybe some of your fellow Scots here will have some info?

[Pacificshore]

If you are able to find any traditional Okinawan based art near you, you'll probably find that they teach traditional Okinawan weapons too. It is also known as Okinawan Kobudo which covers the bo, nunchuks, sai, kama, and eku(oar). You may even want to look into some of the Chinese arts, as they too have weapons training in their curriculum, one being the bo as well as other countless weapons. The difference will be in how the weapons are manipulated.

[YODA]

What are your goals with the Bo?

Are you interested in it from a historical perspctive - do you want to learn to fight with a staff? Both?

[craigwarren]

I guess its just one of those things that look pretty cool and could be a very practicle thing to be able to use. Im much more interested in being able to fight with a staff than the historical views though.

[Solane]

Ninjutsu uses the Bo but my instructors tended to focus on the hanbo (3 ft Staff) as you are more likely to have a modern equivalent to hand i.e. walking stick, large umbrella etc

Hope that helps

Solane

[TkdWarrior]

a pick n history of Bo might be helpful for me :), anyone??
-TkdWarrior-

[YODA]

One thing you must do Craig IMHO is not get fixated on a standard length or weight of staff. I consider any impact weapon (non flexible) that is easier to use two handed rather than one handed to be a staff. This could be a snapped-off broom (light and pointy), a piece of scaffolding pole, a piece of 4x2, whatever. You need to be familiar with a wide array of sizes & weights - for familiar read "train & spar with".

Don't get caught up in cultural issues either - Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, European - all have their strengths & weakneses - research them all.

[Bushido_Kai]

I agree whole heartedly yoda. I myself am very interested in furthering my fledgling interest and practice with the bokan (bo). i share my sensei and your sentiments. there is no such thing as a superior martial art, only superior martial artists. it's too bad all over you are across the pond. i've only been studying for a year and a half and i'd be terribly intimidated. but i could learn a grand amount from all of you i'm sure.

[johndoch]

All this talk of bo's and no mention of the poor ignored arrows:(

[USTSDA2003]

Tang Soo Do uses the bo. :yeleyes:

[YODA]

I have a strong suspicion that Bo-Jutsu may use the Bo too :D

[Saz]

I've seen the Bo used in kyokushinkai too. Motly in demo's though

[kobudo_tob]

I have a strong suspicion that Bo-Jutsu may use the Bo too

Woah, YODA show down........its too much for me to take in.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to attend my meeting to discuss the Sun revolving around the Earth.

[Sonshu]

These guys use it and use it well.

There are a few good clubs in scotland- good style for weapons all round and worth a look.

SONSHU

[YODA]

Originally posted by kobudo_tob


Woah, YODA show down........its too much for me to take in.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to attend my meeting to discuss the Sun revolving around the Earth.


Let us know how that meeting goes bud - they'll be telling us that the earth isn't flat next! :D

[owihitmyself]

hey since you guys are on the topic of bos i just bought a 6' tapered ash staff. i would like to make it my primary focus, but also incorporate 5 years of kicking martial arts into technique (taequando). realistic to incorporate kicking into bo form or no? also, online recources that anyone knows of for instruction? thx.

[zun]

Taiji chaun uses a bo. It's also got a walking-stick version too!

[Kinjiro Tsukasa]

I use a bo and a hanbo in Budo Taijutsu, but that's not the main focus of the training. We also use canes, training swords, training knives, and lots of other stuff.

In my Tai Chi class, we're getting waxwood staffs -- range in length from six feet to ten feet long.

[David]

Wing Chun uses a bo

Mantis uses longer tapered (single-ended) poles

Originally posted by owihitmyself
hey since you guys are on the topic of bos i just bought a 6' tapered ash staff. i would like to make it my primary focus, but also incorporate 5 years of kicking martial arts into technique (taequando). realistic to incorporate kicking into bo form or no? also, online recources that anyone knows of for instruction? thx.

Weapons training is often considered as weapon vs weapon. You usually want to keep your flesh out of the fight in that scenario and let the weapon do the talking. Stick are cool, though, so I understand where you're coming from.

Rgds,
David

[Syd]

Yang Style Taichi as in Yang Lu Chan's Old Yang Style has a superb Short Stick form (I practice this form which is full of explosive fajin, kicks and a great set of moves which come out of snake creeps down goes into a block up, leaping crescent kick and straight into a left right furious spinning the staff in 3repulse monkey's before turning with a back kick and upper cut to the south, another block up and then you do a complete leap into the air and jump over the stick hanging onto the stick where you end up with it held behind your back, turn again with upper cut with stick in right hand holding left hand in the high stalk spreads wing posture!) - which is essentially what could be called a Bo in the Japanese sense of things. It is believed to go back to Yang Lu Chans sons but cannot be traced any further back than that.

It may well be the case that Yang Lu Chan created this form but this cannot be verified. It probably came about later with his sons when training conditions deemed the Spear too dangerous to train in with the spear head fixed. What they would have done was removed the spear head and then had a long staff form which would have become shortened into the short stick form by one of Yang's sons. The Short Taiji Stick Form is quite rare, and was only ever done by the Yang Shou-hou side of the Yang Family.

This is an incredible form with all it's internal martial arts guts still intact!

Best, Syd

[Reiki]

We train with bo too!

And I love it, its one of my favourite weapons :D

[Shortfuse]

isnt there any common style that teaches the bo because i dont have many rare styles near me (and if they are then theyre trying to hide behing another building or wedged inbetween some tall building where no one can see it) and by common i mean basic and by basic i mean broad and by broad i mean common

[Reiki]

where exactly are you?

We have a broad syllabus covering lots of MA techniques and have dojos in the UK and Australia [and all over NZ] and there will be one opening soon in LA I believe.

We do a lot of weapons work and its lovely...... :love:

[#1 Stutta]

Originally posted by USTSDA2003
Tang Soo Do uses the bo. :yeleyes:

Oh yes, you are so right. Tang Soo Do uses the bo. And we also incorporate kicking into it if somehow your opponent gets too close. Then you just kick him away. But, I learned how to fight pretty good with the bo in my Tang Soo Do class.

[Sub zero]

Many styles of kung fu use the bo

As well as JJ whihc i understand has a two man bo set which is like sticky hands with a bo staff.

[small guy]

i had my first JUJITSU leson 2day it wos gr8 we used bos and there big gladiator looking things and i got to nok poo outa em