How heavy is YOUR staff???

My friends made one of those a while back (staff with poi ends). I found it a bit unwieldy, but then again, I'm not much of a staff expert.

Another thing they made is a flail, kind of like cutting the staff with poi ends in half and using one half. For the grip, they used tennis racquet material. It works pretty dern well.

Pacifist

So i just finished carving out meself a new staff , and i must say that it's pretty heavy, and thick! the handle is maybe a little less than 2 inches, but i can still fingertwirl with it. i let it walk through my fingers. it's not as fast, but that's to be expected, i guess. i love how heavy it is, when it gets going, it has momentum, baby! there's no stopping it. and i love it!!

Now all i need is a twin for my little guy, so i can double staff with my short one.

right now im making a 4' staff out of steel pipe because im sick of my staffs shattering when ever i drop it
anyways
heres the kicker tho....im putting fire swords on the ends of the staff
ive found that it makes it f!@*ing awesome for blowing fire..and the combination of the blows and the staff get some mad oohs and ahhs from the crowd....makes u feel good
anyways id say it weighs about 6lbs when i finish it...but i dunno itll prolly handle really really funny like

Steel piping is nice, but it is very heavy. Watch out for the burrs, too..They can get under your skin sometimes n you can't even see them I have about a 7 ft staff(if you could call it that ) made from about 1in diameter steel piping, solid core. It has a circle of the same steel of about 2 ft diameter welded on each end perpindicularly. It's great for a workout, dunno how much it weighs. Recently wicked it up with what little bit of wicking I had left, but the burn time isn't extremely long. Great for horizontal contact stuff, the momentum lasts forever, so you can say get it spinning, rest it on your back, and let it spin for about 10-15 revolutions. Think it's spoiling me for normal staff tho..

Fireswords...dark, like a double headed naginata. nice. have just made my first staff out of 1 /12 inch steel with tiny dowels at either end, the wick is about 5" and its beutifully light as i mainly learnt (still learning...forever) on a heavy assed stick.
result = can now spin faster than ever!

five foot titanium shaft with 5 feet of 4inch kevlar on each side. wilson tennis racket grip in the middle. very stable staff. perfect balance...

My staff is currently a 5' old broomstick, and it's been working sooo well so far. Soon, though, I will be upgrading. I'm thinking of making a 5.5' staff with cathedral style wicks on each end (connected via threaded bolts or some such nonsense) and I am going to drip molten glass on the handle to give it a more solid grip (I go in the rain, and things get really slippery sometimes) and plus, it just looks cool. Anyway, I'm not entirely sure what type of wood to use, or where to get it... anyone got a clue?

Thanks,
DruidicDove

My staff is about 160cm long (aluminum) and its something between 3kg and 5kg. Everybody says that it is so heavy, but I like it They say also that its so thick (¤2.5-3.0cm). I dont know, I love it

my staff is about a meter and a half long
with 4" wicks and is made outa anodized
aluminium

it is about 1.5 kilos in weight

and is perfect for everything

michael

My double staffs are 4 1/2 ft broom handles with 4inch wick, light weight and very fast go spinning alone too. My practice staff weighs around 6 lbs or so and it is an old steel pipe that used to be a fence post. My poi staff is the heaviest of them all. I'd say at least 10lbs. It consists of a piece of 4 foot 1/2 inch galvinzed pipe w/a woodcore. The central part has two 2.5 in wicks at either end. Then on each side there is a 12 in chain with a four inch wick. Very heavy very fast! The thing has so much momentum the first time i used it it just plain old pulled me along with it. I swear just as the old saying goes light staffs need to be told where to go but heavy staffs already know where their going you just need to be there to guide them along.

I'd have to agree with ninja, i have done a few different martial arts before i got into fire and for actual contact, a solid staff is a must, but now i'm doing fire, i've got a concentrate staff and it is tonnes lighter and much easier to learn with...i think its a personal thing...and i wanted a change...

after i lost my toothpick staff in a fire i got a bo staff for Tae Kwon Do. its a couple of pounds, but swings nicely. althought i miss the toothpick, that thing was cool.

Most people I know seem to really like big heavy sticks, but MY favorite set of sticks, are really light weight thin doubles, also really short (90cm) I find the nicest staffs are light but well weighted at both ends for quicker spinning
but then, I am a tiny person...
If someone gives me huge long heavy staff to play with, I tend to drop it, or hurt myself.
Also, I do ALOT of finger spinning so I like thin grips for my little hands




Eveish

my first staff was supper heavy no joke it was made of steal then my second one was wood. and know i have alumim with grafite

My stix are heavey - mainly for the same reason as the Ninja, helps loads for contact...............

Use heavey doubles too, it makes you real good at arm wrestling

lol,

i used a med weight stick, been told by somepeople i respect my staffs are to heavy, others tell me they are to light

but i lke tham

learn contact with a light stick and ull be able to do it with any stick u pick up

Just Pick a wieght that's right for YOU

Me
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bams is right

by example bens and bams sticks are to light for me, choose one that you feel good iwth

and one that wont ko pretty girls when they play with it