#quaterstaff

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“ A wonderful seminar on Meyer Quarterstaff by Roger Norling and Mattias Moberg during HEMAC Florentia 2014.”

If you want to learn more about this general topic I suggest looking into these old posts on the topic such as KDF(Kunst Des Fechtens-The Art of Combat) or Armizare(The Art of Arms) from masters we study in historical fencing like the members of the Liechtenauer tradition and Meyer.

Remember to check out  A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym as it may help with your own club/gym/dojo/school culture and approach.

Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and Resilience by Kaja Sadowski may be relevant as well.

Another useful book to check out is  The Theory and Practice of Historical European Martial Arts

Worth checking out are this blogs tags on pedagogy and teaching for other related useful posts.

Consider getting some patches of this sort or these cool rashguards to show support for good causes or a t-shirt like to send a good message while at training.

And stay safe

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by  Michael MacRae

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A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550

by Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis The Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers and Jacob Henry Deacon  Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds is the name of a great new article on  Acta Periodica Duellatorum  which you can read in its entirety here

“ Abstract  –  The  fifteenth-century  fight  book  author  Filippo  Vadi  wrote  that  the  sword  “is  a  cross  and  a  royal  weapon”:  this  inherent  chivalric  symbolism  associated with the sword has led to a wealth of scholarship on the weapon but seemingly at a cost to research into other forms of weaponry used in medieval and early modern Europe, particularly various typologies of staff weapons.1 This article presents an analysis of the appearance staff weapons in the heterogeneous fight book genre. It uses their limited appearance, in comparison to swords, as a means of  creating  a  microcosm  through  which  several  questions  about  the  wider  fight  book genre can be assessed.  Keywords  –  staff  weapons,  fight  books,  fighting  system,  martial  arts,  Historical  European Martial Arts Studies, arms and armour, warfare “

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London Longsword Academy

When you say you wood, you should. #staff #quarterstaff #hema #pirate

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the term “quarter-staff” implies that a full staff is four times the length

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Alright @serniall I see your tonfa and raise you a quarterstaff, round 2!

I'm having a really lame weapon trick-off with my friend via instagram.