The circus is an advanced bo staff trick that can be upgraded by tapping the bo back to you after it slides off the shoulder. This drill will help you understand the timing and placement of that tap.
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This breakdown of the figure 8 uses the "ice cream" analogy to effectively teach the proper motion to students of all ages. Analogous teaching is a very powerful tool to becoming a better instructor.
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The forearms contain several muscles that are extremely important to bo staff speed and manipulation. These drills will increase the strength of your forearms and ultimately the speed of your spins and power of your strikes.
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The forward, center, up motion makes it much easier to teach students the timing of the Sunset. Keep in mind that every individual student's timing will differ slightly because every student has a slightly different body type.
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This drill is designed for competitors to use for an extended period of time. Keeping the bo moving not only develops better flow and speed, but also opens many opportunities to create new tricks of your own.
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This drill is designed to help students develop better flow in their combos as well as perfecting their hand roll technique
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This drill uses figure 8's or strikes to chamber for thrusts at various angles. This is very important in helping students understand that bo strikes can be done at many angles as long as they are executed with clean technique.
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Low-light training is excellent for tuning your fine motor skills and will make it much easier to catch releases with little visibility in competition.
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Footwork and stances are both vital to performing strikes with clean lines that present well to an audience. This shifting drill will help your students master the necessary footwork for over the head strike stance transitions.
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This drill discusses some teaching strategies that are effective for teaching the palm spin. For smaller classes and younger students, laying on the ground is a very helpful way to practice this technique.
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This drill is essential for understanding how to flow between techniques in creative bo staff. In fact, this drill provides the transition that links almost all bo tricks together.
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This teaching strategy is great for bo staff or weapons classes, but can be applied to any field in the martial arts. This strategy relates more basic techniques to the more difficult technique that you may be trying to teach.
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Why do bo staff strikes always seem to strike straight off the shoulder line? Learn the practical application of striking and why performance striking is slightly different.
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Having good, clean technique with your strikes is essential. However, it is almost just as important to have good rhythm and flow in your striking combos.
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The reload is a valuable bo staff trick used to get out of many sticky situations when trying to combo body rolls. Check out this awesome technique and a couple of variations.
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Wether you are performing creative or traditional bo staff, striking is very important. This video teaches how to generate more power when striking.
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Transitions are one of the cornerstones of creative and extreme bo staff combinations. Learn several principles that will give your combos and forms excellent flow.
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This technique is essential to anyone that wants to practice extreme bo staff or use it in competition. This is a unique throw from behind the back that results in the bo spinning horizontally above your head.
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The push-pull motion is essential to generating more power in bo staff strikes. Once you master that concept, use stance shifting to kick the power up another notch.
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The circus-tap or anti-gravity is the ultimate combination of a body roll and a release all in one move. This is a great trick for advanced students to learn.
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