Bo Staff:
A Bo Staffs is simply a long stick that was originally used to carry buckets of water and food-it was known as ten bin. The bo is round smooth and solid. A standard bo is a tabering stick of wood 1 1/4 in. the middle and 3/4 in.at each end. The tapering gives the bo both flexibility and strength as well as making the center easy to find. Bo Staff Styles :There are several different styles and sizes of Bo Staffs. They come in aluminum,toothpick,canadian ash,crackle and acrylic styles. Some are lightweight,but very strong. They come in several lengths. Bo Staff Techniques: The Bo Staff can be used to strike,block,and trap your opponent. This is probably one of the first weapons that mankind used to defend or hunt. Bo Staffs are loved by martial arts artists.
Bo - Kobudo places great emphasis on the use of the bo, an implement said to be derived from the tenbib, which was a wooden staff that was slung across the shoulders in order to transport buckets of water on each end. The most popular type of bo is the rokushaku, which measures six feet in length and 1 1/4 inches thick at the center, tapering down to 3/4 inch at the ends. Other types of bo range in length from four to nine feet, and can be round (maru-bo), four-sided (kaku-bo), sixsided (rokkaku-bo), or eight-sided (hakkakubo). The most common bo kata are Shushi- No-Kon, Choun-No-Kon, Sakugawa-No-Kon, Tsuken-No-Kon, and Shiishi-No-Kon. Other staff-type weapons include the hanbo (threefoot wooden stick), jo (four-foot wooden stick), tetsubo (Iron staff), sansetsu-kon (three-sectioned staff), and the konsaibo, which is a wooden staff studded with iron nubs.