My grandpa trained for more than 30 years with staffs, swords and stuff and when he was 70 and taking a walk with his Walking stick he got attacked. …. He destroyed several bones of the attacker… he couldnt walk anymore ;D
Solo forms, strikes on a heavy bag, and flourishes will help you memorize techniques and develop some vital attributes, but there really is no substitute for training with a partner. If you solo train in a public place you may just get some interested people who may want to join you. Good luck!
I want to remove the video and just watch the words. And then have Morgan Freeman narrate. And then post it out of context. And then get banned from RU-vid. Thank you though, super helpful!
It is no surprise that people see so much of the Longsword in the Staff, even George Silver stated that you were the treat his Staff in the same manner as the English Longsword and Swetnam counseled the same. Meyer is a class act.
it seems staff techniques share a lot of similaritys with other weapon techniques. the staff seems like the perfect weapon to start learning martial arts.
Meyer actually recommends starting with the longsword. Then you can learn the quarterstaff and the dussack. From the quarterstaff you can move on to other pole weapons and from the dussack to other one-handed swords.
Most Chinese martial arts reccomend learning the staff as the first weapon because it teaches you to move both hand at the same time to generate power, and many people tend to naturaly favor one hand so the staff fosters generating power with the whole body.
You have to study HEMA, Fiore dei Liberi Italian system of Combat to begin to understand. You feel like Conan the Barbarian with this stuff as if it were few i am literally called berber BARBARIAN so when i do this shit, my blood BOILS haarrd. I have deep Nationalist egos in my heart mainly my vandal ancestors. Check out who are the vandals.
Meyer is our great helper, you never know when you will need a staff. A staff luckily is not considered a weapon, and you can legally carry it as a trekking token with you all the time, i personally march on with it, a litlle time during the day, it's been gold for me against knife attacks, you have all the distance or even better than that.
Very very interesting. Simple and natural, I think. Similar to Japanese jiujitsu bo staff Kata.I really like staff fighting because it has sence of primitiveness and I can feel rationality. Beautiful video.
Thankyou for a very informative video. I have seen some conflicting information with regards to which hand is supposed to be lower down in the high guard. I you could clarify, would be grateful.
These are fantastic. Some of them are marvellously flamboyant and would make great stage fighting techniques. Note how the staff taking is exactly the same as one of the longsword ones
I was genuinely amazed by this video and the skills displayed! Where can I find a similar training video for the Quarter staff in a more step by instructional format?
Very much so! If you're unarmored/bloss, you can strike using the shaft. If you're armored, focus on beating away the weapon to get the thrust as in earlier plays
Good show as usual, guys. While I've got it on my mind, did any of the old masters cover "Wrestling at the staff", or rather, unarmed defense against the staff? I know some German and Italian masters cover it against the longsword, but that's the only "long arm" I've seen defended against while unarmed.
"Work" (arbeit) here means to attack, so the opponent will not attack you, but concentrates on remaining bound on your staff and parrying you so that you may come to no work.
MEMAG Thanks for the explanation. It's always interesting to watch and read things like this, but writers of these old manuscripts tend to be vague with their words. Or perhaps their wording was suitable for their time, but not as much for ours.
What would be the correct way to parry the one handed horizontal strike at around 0:40 seconds? Other than voiding that is. Also are there any resources or videos you have that show the correct way to parry staff strikes from Meyer or other sources? Thanks!
Remember the 1980's and all the medieval fantasy shows on tv like 'Robin of Sherwood' (Amazing Series btw)? - and I thought; "ah, come on, they use staffs like japanese farmers... so unrealistic :-)" - turns out, we europeans had the same ideas about using all kinds of things as weapons.
A staff of some form is a common peasant's weapon just about everywhere. It's one of the few weapons they could easily get hold of , and the principles of how to use one effectively depend on physics more than culture.
***** True. Plus, look at the farming tools they used as well. The pitch fork, the Scythe, The pickers they used that looked like spears. They had all sorts of nasty tools to fight with.
