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Bo Staff Skills Napoleon Dynamite"One of the standard themes of Zen art is the staff. The staff is an all-purpose Zen tool -- a symbol of authority, a walking stick, an implement for imparting discipline. This single-stroke Zen staff has no other writing on the paper, but it is filled with seal impressions -- one of Unmon Sokudo's (1690-1765) trademarks. Aikido Bo Staff TechniquesDeshan said to the monks, "If you speak you get thirty blows. If you don't speak, you get thirty blows." Yantou later said, "Old Deshan usually just relied on a white staff. If the Buddha came he hit him. If an ancestor came he hit him. Why does he have so many students." - Zen's Chinese Masters, 2000, p. 199 One interpretation would be that Sokudo is telling his students. "Anywhere you look, I will be there, ready to give you a good whack!"" - Shambhala Publications Red Bluff, Tehama County, North Sacramento Valley, Northern California, U.S.A. Cities in the area: Oroville, Paradise, Durham, Chico, Hamilton City, Orland, Willows, Corning, Rancho Tehama, Los Molinos, Tehama, Proberta, Gerber, Manton, Cottonwood, Anderson, Shasta Lake, Palo Cedro, Igo, Ono, Redding, Shasta, Dunsmuir, Shingletown, Burney, Mt. Shasta City, Weaverville, Yreka, Williams, Colusa, Chester, Susanville, Weed, Gridley, Marysville, Yuba City, CA, California. Zen Master Seung Sahn held up his staff in front of old Shifu Miao Zhang, and said "Then, Miao Zhang, what are this staff, this sound and your mind? Are they the same or different? If you say "same," I will hit you thirty times. If you say "different," I will also hit you thirty times. Aikido Bo Staff TechniquesWudang Tiger Tail Short Staff. An instructional VCD featuring Ben Tan. "A nice set with a "short" staff, often called a whip. Reverse hand and off angles whipping style attacks. Well constructed with a number of hand changes. Back and front hand motions combined. Distinctive Tiger Tail motions as ground sweeps. VCD 1 hour, in Chinese only." This form is from the Wu-Tang Nan-Zong Song-Xi Style, or Wu-Tang Souther Sect Pine and Stream Style. Available from Plum Publications. Also available from Wudang Tiger Tail Short Staff. Wudang Kung Fu Series - Stick-Wielding Arts, Products No.:VCD0424, 1 VCD.Instructional VCD. "Weapon is considered to be a hand extension. This weapon routine is similar to its bare hand routine, using softness to defeat firmness, following the pattern to gain a beneficial vantage point. Wooden sticks, bamboo sticks or even umbrella can be used as a weapon for this routine. The weapons are often used to attack opponents with its backward stroke, moving in all directions, from left to right, making the opponent unable to fight back. Once the opponents lose control for a single moment, their defeat is irreversible." Why?" Miao Zhang lifted his cane slowly, grounded himself, prepared to block a strike and then said, "Don't know! Same or different, nobody can hit the sound of our minds." Bo Staff Spins Video 2"Staff, Scepter. Sanskrit: Danda. Tibetan: Berk-Ka, dByug-pa, hprul-gyis. Many of the various staffs, sticks, and scepters occurring in depictions of Indo-Tibetan deities are often simply named danda, a term that is rather ambivalent; i.e. not discriminating between the specific forms, shapes and symbolism associated with this attribute. Although usually made from wood, a danda is sometimes made from human bone. Sometimes, it is topped by a human skull, at other times by a vajra; in some cases by both. Gada: Club." - Danda Horse Hair Whisk (Fu Chen), Taoist Ceremonial Whisk "Before before the disciple leaves for three years, the Daoist master gives him a three things to remind the disciple of his objectives, First, he