How heavy is YOUR staff???

My goodness. I just had a spin with a staffer I met (good one at that) and holy crap!!! He had the heaviest staff I have ever played with. I could hardly spin it. He had a 6' and myself a 4' staff. I mean, I really thought that if I went to the gym and pumped weight everyday, I may be able to spin that thing. Six of my staffs were the equivilant weight to his one. He was using a really thick alluminum rod (felt more like copper to me) with a whole douling inside. Plus, his staff was really fat, and his grip was huge. These things make things like fingertwirls harder to do. My staff is so light, like air I always say.

So, what I want to know is HOW HEAVY IS YOUR STAFF?

Well,I am currently teaching myself staff, and as I am one to make things harder on myself while learning, just to make it seem easier later, I have what most would consider and extremely heavy staff.

My practice staf if currently 5ft of 3/4in. ID galvanized steel conduit. I am not at home to weigh it now, but rough estimate would be somehwere between 3-5lbs.

Mind you now, I am 6ft tall and 250lbs, so this isn't too heavy for me. I still do fingertwirls and the rest. So far I haven't found any tricks that I cannot do due to the weight.

I gots me a big OL' five foot aluminum with solid wood core and some fat wicks. I can't be bothered to weigh it but it's on the heavy side.

I much prefer heavy sticks.

1. WAY better for contact, which I mostly do

2. When regular spinning it gives you more inertia to play with you actually have something to move, whereas with light sticks it's easier to lose control

Ditto on the approving ninja's points. Heavy staffs rock!

I haven't really used any heavy staffs besides a friends cathedral staff that had 1 1/2 metre wicks on both ends. But still it was as heavy as the one vanessa was talking about. All the staffs I use are as light as air

I use staffs of both heavy and light weights, and like both for thier kinetic quirks. I'd agree with Approving Ninja on his second point, but would think of a heavy staff as being easier for contact, but not always better. Although easier and better often come to the same thing, I find I come across more contact that is hard to take from the light staff to the heavy then vice versa. Hehe hope that makes sense...
Love from Kyle

i practice with heavier and lightweight staffs, repeating tricks with different sets. keeps from complacency kreepin' into my hands.
It helps if you like to fwirl with other peoples' sticks as it conditions yoo better with staves of strange weighting.

i have no idea how heavy my staff is either,
it's 6'+ of 1.5 " diamater wood. I've had most people tell me that it;s pretty rediculous. But i like it.
It gives me a workout and stays in one place. and once it gets goin it's fun to spin fast. ooo and heavy staffs are SO much easier for rolls n such at least for me)


-- jon

yes if you can do contact with a twig then you can do it with anything and your stuff with a proper contact stick will lock much better. But it's just a pain in the buttocks and ickle sticks make my teeth itch they just do.

ive got a steel one about 10 kg

Hi... I'm the staff guy that tanessa's talking about... By the way I had alot of fun tanessa and I "really" enjoyed my walk back to my friends house after that awesome "smoke" we shared. Thank you...
As for the ins and outs of a heavy staff; I cant say too much because I'm so useless with anything but my big ol beast.
It's work to twirl it for sure and when I give it my all while performing I'm defianately wiped out after, but that's part of the whole thing really.
Every staff has a soul. From the minute a spinner slaps a handle on it and gives it a twirl it's it's own stick. ya know?
by the way I have a training stick that was part of an event tent-pole that's WAY too heavy for anything practical but helped me along alot, with things like muscle traing, forcing me to slow down so I could really analyze what was happening and an even deeper respect for the power of concussions...hehe...

ps.... it's not really that heavy once your used to it... its 1 inch aluminum tube, dowel fit all the way through inside, 4 inch wicks on either end and a wee spot o hockey tape...
The main reason I built it so heavy is that I have a very agressive style and when i do **** up it hits the ground hard and it needs to stand up... 1 yr old so far!!!!!!!
on that note... wheres the wholesale Kevlar at?

if you keep shifting the weight of your practice staves, it makes things easier when you simultaneously twirl lightweight electroglo and heavier fire staves, ...for the oddest looking throws this side of Mars.

anyone ever use a hybrid staff before? im not talking about three-piece. my freind made one and now im dying to make one. its kind of a crazy design. its a shorter, maybe 4ft staff with two wicks of 2.5 in kevalr at each end so its multiwicked but the similarity to an actual staff ends there. to give it the "hybrid" design he put poi on each end. its really fun to have a staff you can do wraps with!

Xanath, that sounds to me like a doule flail - kinda like a morning star's siamese brother. Do you find changing planes difficult with em? the inertia certainly allows the same set of moves as other long/heavy staves. You should put up piccies in the other toys section, cus the extra wicking (is that 4 wicks or 6 wicks - counting the poi ends?) would make it look well mean!

yeah, 6 wicks total, including the poi . it is a bit difficult to use, but once you get used to the way it handles it is a beautiful piece of equipment . if i ever get my reply for my picture gallery app. ill post a few pics of it in action.

damn it..i thought i had invented something new when i made one about 2 years ago, they are so much fun, but changing planes is rather difficult as is throwing...one of my friends wss using this staff and he wapped the poi part around his arm and it got tangled and now he has a chain links scar that goes right around his wrist...it looks sooooooo cool....but god it stank!!!!!

As for my normal staff, it is quite light weight and the width of about a broom handle, it means i have a bit of trouble spinning between my fingers, and keeping rotation, but it is a whole lot easier to use when u are changing heights and plans constanlty

cheers

I just got myself a new staff (woohoo!! ) and it's so much damn heavier than my old one! It's a good 8" longer than my previous staff at least, and has about 5"-6" of wick on either end. My old staff just feels like it weighs nothing after using the new........

I like though......oh yes, I like.....

I hurt my wrist today with my practice staff! I was spinning with it and suddenly.. SNAP i felt in my right wrist. shot pain up my arm to my elbow. It hurt like hell for two hours and then subsided, no swelling or anything! Its kinda tender now but feeling better. I think ill give the 1 1/2 in galvinized steel pipe that was used as a fence post, now a practice staff used for endurance training, a rest for now!

Am I the only one in here with a sense of humor bad enough to think of some cheesy penis joke as an answer to Tanessa's question, "How heavy is your staff"?

Pacifist

no, i must admit thats the first thing that came to my mind

i dont play with fire much anymore but years ago (4-5) we made a staff thingee with poi on either end.......fun fun fun!!!

i always liked a heavier staff, one you could paste someone with he he he