xsuntrec thank you. The world has changed. It is no longer right, or possible, to try and keep the martial arts “secrets” locked up in the dojo. I am glad you are getting some value from my videos.
Your tutorials are very useful. You talk a lot and that creates space between the speed of your teaching and the breadth of content - you throw away all that's neither useful nor fun - and our ability to absorb it. The distraction of the chatter allows me to learn stuff more quickly. Thank you for modelling an interesting teaching style ☺
Haha. Thanks! A lot never pick up on the chatter! It is very intentional and I learned a lot of it from great martial arts instructors myself. Thanks for your feedback and insight!
Sensei Matt , I honestly believe I can learn from you . I definitely believe that one needs a teacher to learn good effective martial be arts . I also believe that you have covered this point of criteria with your easy to understand videos . I know at least for myself that with the formal training ( in a dojang ) , that I can surely advance with your instruction . I also appreciate the fact that you do not see advanced age as a particular obstacle .
hey matt. I, like many others in the comments, was also inspired by Morgan from walking dead. lol. I changed my lifestyle about 4months ago and instead of meditating once in a while, working out once in a while, and being good to myself once in a while- i am loving myself every single day. ate better. meditate every day. work out everyday. and even quit cigarettes!! big deal. big deal. so today, i decided to look into Aikido because of Morgan and the fire that was ignited. I have watched at least four instructors such as yourself on youtube today. which by the way, about at least an hour and half on each instructor straight... i also have a very addictive/manic personality but im learning to embrace it. anyways, You sir are my favorite. I ran accross some that were too fast, some that were just sales peeps at the end of the day. i appreciate you matt for your approach and I look forward to focusing on my basics of the art with you. i want to focus on form as I meditate outdoors through this technique.
Matt Pasquinilli I thoroughly enjoy your channel. I studied Aikido for a period of time what seems like an eon ago. I have a pretty severe spine and hip (fractured pelvis) injury I’m working through and plan on picking my study back up, for rehab and mental and I just love it. Missed it. I get to cheat a little by watching. Lifts my spirits up and gives me a big but not unreasonable goal(s). I wrap my ankles with an ace bandage and wear my bicycle helmet when I practiced my no/jo 😖😂 Sounds crazy- LOOKS crazier,,, but so does ending up in the ER because Knocked myself out or worse. It’s a whole lot of fun (bo) though. Love the John Wooden quote- slow is smooth, smooth is fast. I used to tell trainees that. Keep up the wonderful episodes Merry Christmas 🙏🏻😇
When learning the first spin, my teacher told me to flip and skip. Flip the direction of your palm, skip it, then grab. It keeps you from going straight to the ends of the staff
Nice...just what I've been looking for. I trained in Karate for 5 years under a Japanese Shehan with the future outlook of training in weapons, unfortunately things didn't quite happen that way. As fare as weapons are concerned the Bo Staff I find the most appropriate to learn. My goal was to pass on my training to our youth, but as I am now in my 50s I feel my focus towards the older generation. As with most countries carrying a weapon is illegal as well as difficult to hide, however a short Staff aka 'Walking Cane' can be carried out in the open and is totally acceptable and inconspicuous. I can see total potential for me to utilise my Karate training alongside a Short Staff for our Senior Citizens to protect themselves. 'Learn so that we may Teach'... 'Arigato Gozaimasu Ta Matt'
I truly appreciate you taking the time to share with us. Excellent presentation. slowing the camera was very helpful. Looking forward to more learning.
I love this session. I started to watch this, this afternoon & I thought I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this. So up I popped went up to my local woods found the perfect staff. So now the Pupil beginnings - Grasshopper! Little John & all you Merry Morris Men Watchout cus I've got "Me Ol" Bam-Boo" By the way you are cool at what you teach.
Hello Sir, I recently started learning staff fundamentals in traditional Korean Martial Arts and we learn to cross our hands and butterfly (hook both thumbs on the staff with palms up when transferring hands). I understand that different systems have different methods, but you specifically said that you should not cross your hands. Can you please explain the different thought process behind the Japanese Method. Edit: Will you be showing the rest of this Bo staff form?
Halfway into the video, so far I've heard: "If you're lucky, one day you'll whack yourself in the head..." "Do this... in front of as many people as possible... let them judge..." I like this guy already! XD
one or two inches longer than you are tall. But don't over think it. So long as it is long, if you don't have one long enough, start anyway. It is always best to start where you are. Thank you for your question. Did you get a staff?
could you show helpful practice with heavy stick as sort of metal pipe or wood stick with wieght on the ends? It is heavy and it is not possible to practice the same way, but it's good making your arms stronger, thank you
Do this training cross over to if the Bow were replaced with a spear? It appears that it could based on the similar design of them both? Great Totorial! Alpha
Can you at some point in the future illustrate your Bo skills with a spear and please teach on what is the proper length of a Bo ratio to the individual? I've always wanted to learn how to use the Bo, but never had someone to teach its fundamentals as you do! Thanks for your display of Bo skills! Much respect! Big AL
Big AL yes. I will look for a spear. I think I have one in storage. And I will go over length and other attributes. Thanks again for watching and keep training!
I'm here because of the Walking Dead Season 6 a guy named Morgan using Aikido philosophy to make their opponent submit with respect and control and giving them the opportunity to choose non violence, the way of Aikido!!!!!!!!
remo conan Aikido is one of my favorite martial arts. It is a lot like dancing and is pure joy to practice. I am glad you enjoyed that reference to Aikido from the show and hope that you can find the philosophy (which is also my philosophy) in the training that you and I will do together. Practice hard!
Thanks Matt initially I liked and did a bit of wing chun but was lost with the forms then I wanted to do tai chi but found the movements had many forms and I found both hard to follow but for some reason I saw this show with the stick form and philosophy playing out and during a few scenes they displayed practising the stick form and from which I immediately was intrigued by the freeness of motions but the stick itself is a measurement tool which again intrigue me further because it put into context all martial arts in a sense because the stick as An extension of form is measurable to the form of the stick and this sense of like a law or measurement in the stick allowed a lens to view the form with relation to the stick basically it made sense the stance of most common martial arts but by introducing the stick you can relate by holding the stick then looking where your feet are etc making it easier to find your posture so to speak but the stick offers more in that there is spatial awareness and I'm discovering is enjoyable in learning the form than say learning kata without seeing the form making it unrelatable to reality but introducing the staff bo imagining the form becomes visible and manifests into I think another level of martial arts because it is not a true weapon in my opinion anyway, yet it bridges that gap of the free form traditional hand and feet forms but the stick also encompasses these and if one were to use other traditional weapons the staff bo is a starting foundation!!!!!!!
I must be really lucky, because one of the first times I was doing my reverse spin I hit myself square on the bridge of my glasses. That felt pretty good for the rest of the day haha. *I had a really short staff, and was trying to teach myself. It was bound to happen eventually lol.
Dale Parker Ha ha! I’m not sure I have anything written down anywhere or signed by anyone. I do have a bunch of staves though. I’ve been spinning them and hitting things with them for a long time. I have taken classes from others here and there. It was a regular part of the martial arts school where I studied and later worked for many years. I have no college degree or official certification from any Budo head dojo or anything. If you know much about the staff, you should be able to tell there are both Japanese and Chinese influences in the way I move. That happens a lot I think from Korean style martial artists. Were you looking for any specific credential?
I was trying to piece together what traditional lineage your bo studies have, as the bo handling looks good, however, the strikes, blocks, and stances, do not conform to any modern Okinawan or Japanese Kobudo schools. I myself have studied Kenshin Ryu, Hokushin Ryu Kyu Kobudo, and Yamani Ryu Bojutsu.
As you probably know, a lot of the older Korean Taekwondo, TangSooDo, etc.. masters were originally taught by Korean men who were sent to Japan and Okinawa during occupation, and so were taught at Kobudo schools. After the war, they were quick to come up with a series of new names, finally, mostly, agreeing on Taekwondo in time for the '88 Olympics. To this day, many Korean style martial artists, who are not Korean, do not realize that most of their poomse are stylized kata from Shotokan and other schools - and not done with even a tenth the proper hand technique and stance work. But the Koreans tried hard to differentiate the forms on purpose and added more kicks and a flowing style. Today, the forms and style of what is more modern Taekwondo is really becoming unique - and to me it is very ugly and silly. Anyway, we did both Japanese and Chinese style weapons because the older Koreans were students of those styles first. I do try and attend seminars on Kobudo whenever possible to see how it is really supposed to look! Thank you for sharing!
@@pasquinilli my son is training in TangSooDo here in SoCal and will be testing for his brown belt in a few weeks. He's just beginning to learn Bo Staff techniques and your videos have been really helpful as they are very close to how his instructor Master Robinson teaches the beginning forms. Thank you for taking the time to explain how to properly handle spinning a bo staff. And yes he's hit his head and legs LoL. I've even started practicing with him the past few weeks 🤕
There is absolutely no valid reason in a weapons based martial art to put your primary weapon either behind your body or over your head the way you do it.
I bleed a lot. I’m pretty good at looking cool no matter what. Hahaha. But seriously, the spinning is for proprioception and hand strength and flexibility and timing and distance etc... it’s cross training. Not self defense at all but improves strength, speed, skill and other attributes needed for striking and blocking in self defense. It’s like running for boxers. You don’t run in the ring but you run in training to condition the legs and improve endurance and breathing.
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You are the best my friend. Tim Matt pasquin illi
Thanks Tim!
Gracias por la clase ....from Sudamérica...🌈☯️
Es un placer. ¡Gracias por ver!
Good. Not only for the exercise but also for attacks and defence
That first form will take some time to learn. Thank you greatly. 😊
I really appreciate your teaching style your easy to follow and I sincerely feel like your giving it away...thank you
xsuntrec thank you. The world has changed. It is no longer right, or possible, to try and keep the martial arts “secrets” locked up in the dojo. I am glad you are getting some value from my videos.
Your tutorials are very useful. You talk a lot and that creates space between the speed of your teaching and the breadth of content - you throw away all that's neither useful nor fun - and our ability to absorb it. The distraction of the chatter allows me to learn stuff more quickly. Thank you for modelling an interesting teaching style ☺
Haha. Thanks! A lot never pick up on the chatter! It is very intentional and I learned a lot of it from great martial arts instructors myself. Thanks for your feedback and insight!
Sensei Matt , I honestly believe I can learn from you . I definitely believe that one needs a teacher to learn good effective martial be arts . I also believe that you have covered this point of criteria with your easy to understand videos . I know at least for myself that with the formal training ( in a dojang ) , that I can surely advance with your instruction . I also appreciate the fact that you do not see advanced age as a particular obstacle .
Good process
Thanks Matt, I’ve been spinning my staff like crazy
Hey Matt, I appreciate all the hard work and time you put into producing all your videos. Thanks bro.
hey matt. I, like many others in the comments, was also inspired by Morgan from walking dead. lol. I changed my lifestyle about 4months ago and instead of meditating once in a while, working out once in a while, and being good to myself once in a while- i am loving myself every single day. ate better. meditate every day. work out everyday. and even quit cigarettes!! big deal. big deal. so today, i decided to look into Aikido because of Morgan and the fire that was ignited. I have watched at least four instructors such as yourself on youtube today. which by the way, about at least an hour and half on each instructor straight... i also have a very addictive/manic personality but im learning to embrace it. anyways, You sir are my favorite. I ran accross some that were too fast, some that were just sales peeps at the end of the day. i appreciate you matt for your approach and I look forward to focusing on my basics of the art with you. i want to focus on form as I meditate outdoors through this technique.
GabyNobody wow. Thank you for those thoughtful and kind words! I am a huge fan of Aikido. Your story of change is amazing too! Keep training!
I like your videos so calming and interesting
Ginero Rosano wow! That’s a great compliment. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
“This is where a lot of you as a beginner , whack your knee.
That’s good.”
Love it.
Haha. Thanks for watching and commenting. I’m still hitting my knees!
Matt Pasquinilli I thoroughly enjoy your channel.
I studied Aikido for a period of time what seems like an eon ago.
I have a pretty severe spine and hip (fractured pelvis) injury I’m working through and plan on picking my study back up, for rehab and mental and I just love it. Missed it.
I get to cheat a little by watching.
Lifts my spirits up and gives me a big but not unreasonable goal(s).
I wrap my ankles with an ace bandage and wear my bicycle helmet when I practiced my no/jo 😖😂
Sounds crazy- LOOKS crazier,,, but so does ending up in the ER because
Knocked myself out or worse.
It’s a whole lot of fun (bo) though.
Love the John Wooden quote- slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
I used to tell trainees that.
Keep up the wonderful episodes
Merry Christmas
🙏🏻😇
Thank you for the very clear demonstration and slow motion making it easer to see the hand positions.
When learning the first spin, my teacher told me to flip and skip. Flip the direction of your palm, skip it, then grab. It keeps you from going straight to the ends of the staff
That is awesome advice. So good!
Twirling exercises well instructed. Good elementary set with both sound basic movements & challenging variety. Thanks!
Richard Kollmar thank you!
Nice...just what I've been looking for. I trained in Karate for 5 years under a Japanese Shehan with the future outlook of training in weapons, unfortunately things didn't quite happen that way. As fare as weapons are concerned the Bo Staff I find the most appropriate to learn. My goal was to pass on my training to our youth, but as I am now in my 50s I feel my focus towards the older generation. As with most countries carrying a weapon is illegal as well as difficult to hide, however a short Staff aka 'Walking Cane' can be carried out in the open and is totally acceptable and inconspicuous. I can see total potential for me to utilise my Karate training alongside a Short Staff for our Senior Citizens to protect themselves. 'Learn so that we may Teach'...
'Arigato Gozaimasu Ta Matt'
Ian McGoram yes! That is a worthwhile goal! Thank you for sharing. I do have several short staff tutorials on my channel too. Have you seen them?
Matt Pasquinilli awesome...Iw check them out...many thanks Master Matt...
Ian McGoram thank you!
I truly appreciate you taking the time to share with us. Excellent presentation. slowing the camera was very helpful. Looking forward to more learning.
mark Daley thank you. I very much appreciate that you are watching!
3:32 Overhead Spin
4:20 Behind the back
4:52 Behind the back switching hands
5:18 Behind the back, Overhead
5:45 Form
Tha is for this!
Excellent training vid. I'll come back for more. Thanks for posting.
LeopoldUlysees thank you for watching!
I love the art of your teaching skills for my heart feels.thanks sir....
Thank you very much for your kind words and for watching!!
I love this session. I started to watch this, this afternoon & I thought I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this. So up I popped went up to my local woods found the perfect staff. So now the Pupil beginnings - Grasshopper! Little John & all you Merry Morris Men Watchout cus I've got "Me Ol" Bam-Boo" By the way you are cool at what you teach.
Awesome. Great way to start! Jolly heart and happy hands! Keep training!
Great tutorial. I'm going to go practice now!
Darby Willis thanks Darby! How is your training going?!?
Great master
Thank you friend!
Ur a great teacher 😊, gonna try em too
Thank you. I appreciate that very much!
Great! Thanks!
Nikos Panos thank you!
Really nice sir , your videos helpful ..
Chanti Singam thank you very much!
Hello Sir, I recently started learning staff fundamentals in traditional Korean Martial Arts and we learn to cross our hands and butterfly (hook both thumbs on the staff with palms up when transferring hands). I understand that different systems have different methods, but you specifically said that you should not cross your hands. Can you please explain the different thought process behind the Japanese Method.
Edit: Will you be showing the rest of this Bo staff form?
Where did you learn to do that because I feel like you are doing it with such ease a baby can do it but I know that's not how it is
I’ve been practicing for a long time! You will get really good too!
Thanks for sharing this
Halfway into the video, so far I've heard:
"If you're lucky, one day you'll whack yourself in the head..." "Do this... in front of as many people as possible... let them judge..."
I like this guy already! XD
Question when I strike and it hits my arm if it hurts is that mean I'm doing it right
that's cool
the_original_me thanks!
So helpful thanks!
Connor Simon thanks Connor. You my boy!
What is the standard size of stick length , please tell us.... With reference to our height
one or two inches longer than you are tall. But don't over think it. So long as it is long, if you don't have one long enough, start anyway. It is always best to start where you are. Thank you for your question. Did you get a staff?
could you show helpful practice with heavy stick as sort of metal pipe or wood stick with wieght on the ends? It is heavy and it is not possible to practice the same way, but it's good making your arms stronger, thank you
Valdi mai yes. I use heavy pipes for practice too!
Thanks matt for the slowmo
Thanks ☺️
Liked it. Awesome (Y)
Thank you very much for watching and your kind comments!
I understand that the main aim at first with the staff is to get strength in hand arms and shoulders for many weeks.
Awesome..............:)
alex Zero thanks Alex!!
Do this training cross over to if the Bow were replaced with a spear? It appears that it could based on the similar design of them both? Great Totorial!
Alpha
Big AL yes. Absolutely!
Can you at some point in the future illustrate your Bo skills with a spear and please teach on what is the proper length of a Bo ratio to the individual? I've always wanted to learn how to use the Bo, but never had someone to teach its fundamentals as you do! Thanks for your display of Bo skills! Much respect!
Big AL
Big AL yes. I will look for a spear. I think I have one in storage. And I will go over length and other attributes. Thanks again for watching and keep training!
I'm here because of the Walking Dead Season 6 a guy named Morgan using Aikido philosophy to make their opponent submit with respect and control and giving them the opportunity to choose non violence, the way of Aikido!!!!!!!!
remo conan Aikido is one of my favorite martial arts. It is a lot like dancing and is pure joy to practice. I am glad you enjoyed that reference to Aikido from the show and hope that you can find the philosophy (which is also my philosophy) in the training that you and I will do together. Practice hard!
Thanks Matt initially I liked and did a bit of wing chun but was lost with the forms then I wanted to do tai chi but found the movements had many forms and I found both hard to follow but for some reason I saw this show with the stick form and philosophy playing out and during a few scenes they displayed practising the stick form and from which I immediately was intrigued by the freeness of motions but the stick itself is a measurement tool which again intrigue me further because it put into context all martial arts in a sense because the stick as An extension of form is measurable to the form of the stick and this sense of like a law or measurement in the stick allowed a lens to view the form with relation to the stick basically it made sense the stance of most common martial arts but by introducing the stick you can relate by holding the stick then looking where your feet are etc making it easier to find your posture so to speak but the stick offers more in that there is spatial awareness and I'm discovering is enjoyable in learning the form than say learning kata without seeing the form making it unrelatable to reality but introducing the staff bo imagining the form becomes visible and manifests into I think another level of martial arts because it is not a true weapon in my opinion anyway, yet it bridges that gap of the free form traditional hand and feet forms but the stick also encompasses these and if one were to use other traditional weapons the staff bo is a starting foundation!!!!!!!
remo conan great insight!
I must be really lucky, because one of the first times I was doing my reverse spin I hit myself square on the bridge of my glasses. That felt pretty good for the rest of the day haha.
*I had a really short staff, and was trying to teach myself. It was bound to happen eventually lol.
98Spartans hahahaha. That's awesome! It's the ones that leave a mark that bring you the most luck!
are you using arnis
Liked it.
ven ra thank you very much!
May I ask what credentials you have for teaching the Bo?
Dale Parker Ha ha! I’m not sure I have anything written down anywhere or signed by anyone. I do have a bunch of staves though. I’ve been spinning them and hitting things with them for a long time. I have taken classes from others here and there. It was a regular part of the martial arts school where I studied and later worked for many years. I have no college degree or official certification from any Budo head dojo or anything. If you know much about the staff, you should be able to tell there are both Japanese and Chinese influences in the way I move. That happens a lot I think from Korean style martial artists. Were you looking for any specific credential?
I was trying to piece together what traditional lineage your bo studies have, as the bo handling looks good, however, the strikes, blocks, and stances, do not conform to any modern Okinawan or Japanese Kobudo schools. I myself have studied Kenshin Ryu, Hokushin Ryu Kyu Kobudo, and Yamani Ryu Bojutsu.
As you probably know, a lot of the older Korean Taekwondo, TangSooDo, etc.. masters were originally taught by Korean men who were sent to Japan and Okinawa during occupation, and so were taught at Kobudo schools. After the war, they were quick to come up with a series of new names, finally, mostly, agreeing on Taekwondo in time for the '88 Olympics. To this day, many Korean style martial artists, who are not Korean, do not realize that most of their poomse are stylized kata from Shotokan and other schools - and not done with even a tenth the proper hand technique and stance work. But the Koreans tried hard to differentiate the forms on purpose and added more kicks and a flowing style. Today, the forms and style of what is more modern Taekwondo is really becoming unique - and to me it is very ugly and silly. Anyway, we did both Japanese and Chinese style weapons because the older Koreans were students of those styles first. I do try and attend seminars on Kobudo whenever possible to see how it is really supposed to look! Thank you for sharing!
@@pasquinilli my son is training in TangSooDo here in SoCal and will be testing for his brown belt in a few weeks. He's just beginning to learn Bo Staff techniques and your videos have been really helpful as they are very close to how his instructor Master Robinson teaches the beginning forms. Thank you for taking the time to explain how to properly handle spinning a bo staff. And yes he's hit his head and legs LoL. I've even started practicing with him the past few weeks 🤕
make more bo staff turorial
Vertirun 27 will do!
tnx
Vertirun 27 have you seen any of my new videos?
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No Joke yes. True. So are you teaching or training?
can someone walk me through how to do the figure 8? he just kinda went right into the spin
I can make you a new video
sir upload fully vedio of bostuff .your obedient online student.
GAURAV JHA will do!
2:12
There is absolutely no valid reason in a weapons based martial art to put your primary weapon either behind your body or over your head the way you do it.
Yes. You are right. I only do it because it looks cool.
@@pasquinilli good luck with looking cool when you're bleeding from an attack and you've had your weapon behind your back!
I bleed a lot. I’m pretty good at looking cool no matter what. Hahaha. But seriously, the spinning is for proprioception and hand strength and flexibility and timing and distance etc... it’s cross training. Not self defense at all but improves strength, speed, skill and other attributes needed for striking and blocking in self defense. It’s like running for boxers. You don’t run in the ring but you run in training to condition the legs and improve endurance and breathing.
Tahtib