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This week we were introduced to stick fighting techniques at Budo Ryu, we were asked to bring in broom handles as they are a similar size (4ft) to a “JO” which is the proper name for a fighting stick, there’s also something called a BO (6ft) and I’ve accidentally discovered a “HANBO” (3ft).
There’s some things in life (not many in my case) that you just take to like a duck in water and are good at from the start, now stick fighting is one of those things that I just picked up really quickly and was very good at from the start, if only other things in karate were so simple (to me anyway).
Well as I enjoyed it so much and was good at it I decided to invest in a proper weapon to get even better (no I won’t be practising on my children in case you were worried) and I jumped straight onto Google as you do and searched out an online shop that sells them.
After a bit of refining and jumping into the shopping channel in Google I discovered Playwell Martial Arts (there’s a free link guys) who were offering sticks, I ordered what I thought was a “JO” but it was actually a “HANBO” I stupidly thought it was the same thing just called something else, actually I discovered when it arrived it was a foot shorter than a “JO”, but that’s no big deal I can do pretty much the same skills with it so it’s all good … let the practise begin!!
If you’re looking for martial arts stuff I’d highly recommend Playwell Martial Arts, the delivery was lightening fast and pricing was not too bad, slightly more expensive than other online traders but not by a lot.
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