How I Learned Bo Staff Spinning from Scratch 

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Inspired by this video, I tried this myself. In just two hours I've broken: two vases, a ceiling fan, a mirror and a desktop printer

Wish all mistakes were as simple as “go the other way” 😂 awesome video!

Showing your mistakes and how you fixed them makes the difference between a good showcase and an amazing one. Needless to say, amazing video. Keeping this teaching ethic of embracing the perspective of the student who is still learning; you will make a great and reputable master!

Thanks for breaking down how to do these techniques. Also am glad you are showing problems you ran into and how you fixed them. Most the time you see perfect moves and never the issues that can happen. I feel your failures and successes are valuable and far better teachings than the “pro’s” that make no mistakes.

5:12 dude, I felt that.

I remember when I first tried that. I held the staff too close. The staff bounced off the side of my head, broke my brand new glasses and sent my dentures flying out of my mouth to half way across the other side of the room. I very nearly knocked myself out. I still remember what my first sensei told me 25 years ago. My first ever lesson, he said "work on technique first, speed will follow".

Now for the final test. Deflect arrows!

As someone who has learned a lot from RU-vid, it literally feels like this in the begining- like I need a human to show me I'm not doing it right! I loved this

I love that RU-vidrs are your "own kind" 😂😂You're the Tom cruise of staff spinning lol Good call on wearing a helmet because I died when the staff hit you 😩I actually hollered when you did around the world like a boss 😎So proud of you for mastering the moves, Hafu! You're so disciplined and resilient 💪🏽

Yep -- correcting your stance really helps. With weapons, if you're right handed you'll find yourself in a southpaw stance more often than not. Also, learning spinning without bo fundamentals is part of why you will get banged up when learning. You need to develop an awareness of the bo as an extension of your body for proprioception. It's why we don't teach this stuff till advanced levels. But hey -- you did it despite all the hard knocks! Well done!

Last year I saw this video for the first time and it inspired me. I have gotten very good at the Bo staff over the last year and I wanted to thank you for the inspiration.

I teached it myself. It took years bc i didnt want to learn it on purpose i just wanted to spin around a stick in a cool way. And now i found i came up with real techniques.

Finally to see another beginner learning this. All the same mistakes. Love it. The helmet is a great idea, thanks

don't fear the pain. pain is a good teacher. it teaches to be careful. helps gaining endurance. jokes aside. it's a great tutorial. bookmarked for future reference when I have the chance to begin this travel myself. I spent years trying to discover how to do it. now I know. thank you sensei.

Now do it the opposite direction of rotation. When I used to twirl, I usually used a few fingers, not a full grip like you're using there. It looks difficult the way you're doing it but it's impressive looking.

I appreciate the video, not many people show how much length they must go through to become cool, everyone just does their skills set and shows off to us, makes us feel like fools. Thank you for making me feel normal!

Loved the video! I know your pain as I have been training myself. The helmet idea is excellent.. I have not mastered the 3 rd movement, but I think your video will help. So thank you!

Its going to be a little bit of a stretch, but I feel this way with a lacrosse stick. Played for most of my life, and it moves like water even when I don't consciously think of it. Its transferred into the Bo Staff quite a bit and its interesting to see someone begin from scratch vs when I started from scrath and could do the leading pinky with ease. Sometimes ya take for granted what you can already do without realizing!

Swordplay and Bo staff have been a dream of mine to learn. Your instructions were clear and precise!

I’m 61 and truly inspired after watching your video to give this a go in order to improve my mental and physical fitness. Thank you for taking the time to produce and upload it.

I'm currently learning bo staff ,and this was great it broke it down for me to understand 🙏

when doing the second spin skill i have a easier time getting up to speed when holding the staff off balance. Have a bit more weight below your hand and it will add a bit of momentum when you change directions.

Amazing, very descriptive, great video and I thought your discipline was on point to practice like you did💯💪

Omg I needed this so much. I thought there was no hope for me to be able to go faster. Thank you

That hit to the head though, and the added bonus "increased my agility, decreased my intelligence" I was laughing as hell. Another hit like that and you'll start talking to miniature giant space hamsters xD

I love these vids you really made me want to start doing bo staff

You gave such an inspiration by posting a 8 min Video 👍🏻. I appreciate ur Effort and Dedication also ur mindset to never give up

Valuble information. Thank you.

Crazy how I learned all of this as a kid watching Darth Maul on repeat 😂

Man, you are really an impressive person and you draw attention to living your life and doing the things you love and facing difficulties and yet there is little support when

The most refreshingly honest instructional I've seen in ages.

Congratulations on all you effort man!!

Gr8 work man, I also started bo staff training during da covid lock downs and funny enuf, i watched da exact same videos plus sum insane skilled 14 yr old (they ain't messing arund). Keep pushing man and you'll do gr8. Remember to also do basic strength training to build ur body up to keep up with your training. All the best Bro ✊

I was taught to never take both hands off the weapon. the only real spinning that we did was the twohanded twist. but it was pretty useless because you have to grasp the stave with your hands close together, which decreases the force with which you can attack with.

I really liked this video. I have been trying to spin FOREVER, and like you I was doing stuff wrong/backwards. Thanks for making such a cool video.

Fantastic! Love your presentation!

5:11 best moment in the whole video

5:13 bro I felt that😂doing karate and practicing with the staff I’ve hit myself plenty of times

Educational and Funny thanks for taking those hits for the sake of our education, I'm grateful 🙏 hope you healed well!

Superrrrt coaching brother.hatsup u

Rokushakubo is my favorite weapon in goju ryu. I like to think I have a decent spinning speed, but it ain't that fast. In my opinion, if you wanna look cool while doing it, try pick a better stance while doing it. Better balance too.

The sifu black robe had me dying, you still looked like a real martial arts sensei💪👏

5:30 love the red mark on his forehead from smashing it with his staff

I'm really impressed how hafu does these kinds of challenges

Bro your such a funny and entertaining RU-vidr you deserve so much more 🔥💯🤗

5:02 best part awaits... 😂

The interesting things is, I did baton twirling first so when I picked up my staff first time I could do these moves anyway, but I've watched this all the way to the end because your enthusiasm is just brilliant. I enjoyed this video thank you.

The sound it made when it hit your head made me lol. Nice work though! I like how you work through each stance and grip to figure out how to do it.

Hi hafu, I m really really a big fan of yours. And really after seeing your all kung fu videos I m so inspired by it, now after telling my dad I m also doing it. Pls bless a luck that I can do my best. And you are such talented and funniest person I have ever seen , 😂😂😂... The way you just broke your head made me feel sad and at the same time laugh... And you will surly succeed one day if you do more practice... And who's your fav kung fu master? I like Bruce Lee so much... I m really inspired by him. Anyways waiting for your new video soon, hope we will meet soon in your next video... See you, you can do it and God bless you and much your camera man 😂😂. Anyways love you ❤️.. Have a really lovely and good weekends. ❤️😊😊😊

During the second skill, you looked like you were in constant pain 😂😂😭

I think this video have so much philosophical meaning , i really enjoyed it . thanks

Been looking into teaching myself to use a staff. This definitely brings hope

If we get Hafu to 1 million subs, he would be so happy

Fun fact: A group of hippos is called a "bloat."

This was really funny but also educational and easy to follow. Wish me luck!

p.s. while yes, a good staff can assist you with speed, but in all honesty, it's not about the staff, it's about the person. The better you are (and you'll get better) it makes no difference what type of staff you use. next video you should post is an update to this one and how much better did you get. spin in front of you, do the round your body combination, then do the round your body combination while springing your body as well. just add all kinds of different things to skills

“Increase my agility, decrease my intelligence”

@1:25 dam he's spinning the staff so fast right off the bat /s

Omg your my new idol now and i love your video!

Hey! Hafu! I also learned how to spin the staff up to Step 1 today by watching your video! (Been practising on a 3′ staff for 10 weeks!) Say, can you not post more videos on Master Yan Li? His technique looks really succulent!

Hey hafu ! on the bo staff why dont you try the monkey on the tree pose, even i learn shaolin kung fu doing the pose is really easy but catching the staff before it touches the ground. I really love your videos related to kung fu because you do everything in the simplest posiible way . topics for next video can be :- Learning to use nanchuks learning to use shoalin sword / traditional katana learning to use shoalin spear learning diffrent Tiger,Crane,Monkey,Vipur,Mantis and panda kung fu techniques Learning to do monkey on the tree pose using bo staff learning to use other different shaolin/wushu traditonal weapons learning to use the kai's jade sword from kung fu panda and do you see a man using some soft of chain weapon in the bbc documentary on shaolin kungfu. do this i am surely gonna give you a dollar thanks

I also tried the pinky one but got hurt and stopped it after doing it for 1 week 😅 now I'm a wushu sanda player 😂 i might try that again

It's funny that you are showing this, as I kid I loved the bow staff and I practiced all of this is out knowing. Amazing to me :)

So fun! I love this so much!

Did u completed your kung fu training ? How was that ? And can u plz tell us how many things u have learnt and how many things will you try to learn ????? This is the big question in my mind 🙃😎 And tell us about yourself

Bo in Japanese is actually staff,so the title actually says” staff staff”

Nicely done

This guy is an amazing RU-vidr, very entertaining

Lmao, I learned these techniques myself as a kid messing around with a stick and following its flow

We have all hit our heads or our knees with it. I bashed my knee with mine during a form at the tournament. I just carried on. You're also missing basic spin 4. I practice Shaolin do. Learned the 4 basic spins in one class. Bo staff is not my favorite weapon because my arms are hyper extended and it feels awkward to me. Try the Quan moves next. Now thats a challenge but fun.

Very useful insight

O melhor vídeo que assisti até agora, você explicou muito bem, ótimo trabalho e obrigado

Great video!!

Thank you for this video😂😂😂. Love it

I dont know who you are but thank god for recommended! Love the edits and how you talk! Im def subscribe and Bell!

Great teaching, great video. The fist one skip catch is not a martial spin. Only used in movies so the camera can see the stick, by you tubers and baton twirlers. The upper cuts especially one handed always put your right foot forward (if the stuck is in your right hand, the body needs to be able to turn with the stick, start with two hands as the left hand can help guide the stick and don't hold the stick in the centre 2/3 infront. Oh you got to that :) Great video. Technique is everything & practice. Awesome

Man I've been in Skyrim for the last couple weeks and that skill level up noise made me question reality for a moment

I Will sub man, this is strictly funny Totally a new sub man, Keep it up

2:38 Take away the staff = nice dance moves

Hi, Hafu. Hoped you learned more from the master on mastering the staff. And you can probably learn and show off more advanced staff techniques like the ones showed in the Journey from the West by the Monkey King.

Yo Hafu! I just started spinning randomly myself lol. Been having a lot of fun with the Bo Staff tbh.

DOOOOOD, you literally spoke one of the truest truisms of ALL TIME: ~"you gotta look stupid before you look cool!" IMHO, we're all idiots 'until we're not.' it's so easy to feel badly about ourselves when attempting tasks others have mastered...and that's NOT necessarily because we're fundamentally flawed; while some freakishly talented humans exist, most of us have to learn and practice...our ENTIRE LIVES are about learning and practice... 🥰🥰🥰🥰

I just laughed all the way through. thanks for sharing your experience . You are awesome.. haha. cheers.

Great video. Now that I have a back yard I have been wanting to brush up on my bo staff skills. I've had the pleasure of training with Jake Mace several years ago. His videos are amazing. I will say that he makes it look way too easy. But that is a credit to his skills as a martial artist.

You did so good that I am impressed

You're really funny! had me laughing the whole video.. but seriously doing a good job

Just discovered you. Loved this…great video. Hilarious too!

That was great thanks for sharing the good with the bad.

Terrific video! Not sure that you will see this 3 days after posting, but I think you'd make the next level of 'effortless" progress if you engaged your Hua. The two example videos that you watched show them moving their hips rather than their knees or arms, as the power behind the staff. It looks like you are using your arms and shoulders for power. If you can 'wiggle' your hips (kinda of like moving a hula hoop) and transfer the power through your shoulders more like hinges, it might make everything more effortless (in your sleep) and relaxing. Of course, you have to go through the steps that you showed in this video to get to that level of control, so that you can shift the center of momentum down to your hips. I don't know if "Hua" is a Kung Fu or Tai Chi term? If you can make another video after you figure out and implement what I'm trying to say, I think it'd make a very cool comparison to this one.

3:04 - oh geez. The helmet came in handy that time! I'm going to include protective goggles when I start to learn that one.

The PERSEVERANCE and the Chi of the Chinese is inspiring💜🙏🏻

Subscribed for your hard work ❤️😘❤️

You are now ready for the foot ball half time show. Great.

A lot of these techniques have been easy to learn from watching movies :D And since I'm working out at the farm, I actually use an (unbalanced) pitchfork. So to not hit me, I'd be extra careful with the sharp end, whenever it swings past my head and legs. I've... hit myself, but I learned thanks to the risk being in my mind, teaching me much faster. I also noticed that spear-dancing is a thing of balance and style. Centre of balance and motion keeps it going. Keep the momentum going and your mission would simply be to just control that said momentum. Such an epic skill to have! I'm definitely needing a bo staff, however..

Ive tried this standing up on a kayak and spin the paddle it acts like a propeller good way to strengthen your upper body and balance.. the paddles on the end make for a slow and steady motion it's really hard though. I'm sure we'd love to see you try it

This is so exciting, Hafu! I'm so inspired a really want to learn the Bo. I was just wondering, what length is your Bo and what style of Martial Arts is this particular work attached to? Or is it a combination of various styles?

Thanks to you i can actually do to the spin and the side spin

Another way I’ve found to make your second spin faster is to hold the staff slightly off center. It makes the center of gravity off from you hand and extra weight will fall down, creating more energy.

Loved this. 🙏