How heavy is YOUR staff???

are you refering to that all of my sticks have hit bams in teh face when she has triedto use my weights, and so wont use my sticks anymore ?

I made mine in San Fran after not having anything to do...took a couple of attempts...broke the first one busking(but a got a dollar just for that! A niche in the busking-market perhaps?), snapped the second one pratising to kick it up with my heels off the floor..
For my current staff I chose thicker aluminium because it had to go through airports and being dropped as I'd only been doing it for 2 months. I've found a good weight for me, it just hurts like hell when I hit myself . Plus I've just rewicked it with 4 times the amount of wick as the last one, it was only ickle..

But my staff does feel alot heavier than most peoples I've used...to answer the original question....and I'll eventually stop rambling...and go to bed....it's 4am...this insomnia is driving me nuts...maybe I'll go fire-dance?...or invent a cure for hitting yourself in the head with a heavy fire-staff...I did it ...turns out its practise...celebratory drink

my favorite stick is heavy and one and half meters

i have 2 staffs, one is very thin and about 5 "6' its kinda old and quite light
the other which i made with my first paycheque is about 6" and 1 1/4 inch wide, and wooden cored so its very heavy, i made it specifically as with the lighter staff was finding it hard to maintain momentum through contact moves like the steve, the advantage is that the smaller staff is easier to budge round when it passes your neck

i've got 5 staffs, two bought ally ones, which are lightest, they're fine for everythign i do.
then i have my big 4" wicked one, made of rake handle, bout 1" wide... pretty hefty
an ally with full dowel core, thats kinda average, slightly thinner, then another ally dowel cored one, which is about half the width? and that ones lethal, much heavier than you'd think to look at it, and goes hell fast. leaves big bumps if you hit yourself in the face. ouch.
don't really have nay prefernece for weight though, other than that my heavier sticks are more of a workout.

ive always used heavy stick and love it

although when i move to a broomstick or somehting similar as light my wmoves are way to fast to be controlled

makes me feel like jackie chan

currently building a naginata for chroeographed fire weapons combat. it's two pieces of 3/4" EMT conduit, and it will likely weigh about 7 lbs. and stands at 6 feet long. the reason for the weight: it's two pieces nearly the same length, bolted together side by side for rigidity. the thing is gonna be a monster, and i look forward to seeing what it looks like in motion!