Dai's Buugeng (S-Staffs) Impressions

The paint seems to stay nice after about 3 drops on solid ground like concrete. still looks nice, however makes behind-the-leg moves scrape if your wrist is not high enough transitioning into the move.

make sure your hands are clean when you play cus the paint gets a little sticky after a while. An open grip helps greatly with the stickiness issue.

Wouldn't it be the gloss that makes it sticky??? I only ask because if its possible I'm going to annoy dai for a woodgrain finish (Just no paint, with the gloss only)

There's possibly a tribal design coming out - i thinkin light of that the potential users will be wanting more glam if anything.

Had the opportunity to have a play with these at uber, very cool prop! (kudos to the owner who let me have a play on friday!sorry have forgotten got your name )

Definitely on my wish list...

Having spoken to Dai about his design and trying to get them available in the HoP shop, I can tell you that he made them available primarily because he believes in the prop and wants to see it advance. Hence also the lessons he did for the HoP Library. And also why they're not available in HoP as Dai wants to be able to have the direct contact with each customer.

Please help! I'd like to buy a pair of buugeng but it sold out on Dai's site...
Do you know where to bue some? I'll be realy happy if you shere info with me

As far as I know, you will need to wait until they are back in stock. Sorry.

i wonder if michael moschen is watching all this demand for curved staves...

marianikolaeva tell me if you find out and I will slaughter everyone before me in the line for this alternate buugeng source and then I will have bloodstained buugeng.

I've heard a whispering that buugeng MIGHT be going back on sale soon. Keep watch on his site.

3 months and alot of play later...

• Cons
  my buugeng are wearing on a little. i compared mine to other people's buugeng and there is a substatial difference in handling. I practice only over soft surfaces and throw low and still there are dents in the plywood and the paint is cracked in several places. There is slight strucutural cracks appearing near one of the hinges, however the main issue is that the sticky paint attracts dirt to the point where my hold on the buugeng is noticeably more cumbersome than with a set in better condition.
• Pros
  I love playing with it. people love seeing it. I'm doing so many new moves that I couldn't do with straight staff! mega!

My buugeng arrived yesterday... GORGEOUS things, they are, too... no paint, just varnish... really quite sexy.

Cool. Thought when I was completely bored at work today I saw a picture of someone fishtailing one of them, or at least an S shaped staff... Seems to me (an amatuer novice contact staff user in training) that because of the shape it'd throw off the weight a bit and make that difficult.

*shrug* Either way, if I had the cash I'd probably ship it straight to Dai for one of those.

Man, more and more often these days the words "If I had the cash" keeps popping up in my mind. I think I need to find a better job.

PS - Excuse me for completely rambling off any given topic.

^_^

the handle does not have a uniform cross section - fishtails in any direction is fiendishly difficult

OH! The buugeng have been "improved" no longer if you turn them in the same direction over and over do they get tighter... you must tighten them with a screwdriver if you want it tighter.

the buugengs i have seen all have flat head screws that tighten with a screwdriver.

In the info sheet I've got it says that if you continue to turn the buugeng one way around the swivel they'll tighten up or loosen off, I remember yours being too tight to flick out easily.

But he's written a note to disregard these comments and looking at the construction, I understand why it wouldn't be applicable.

Hi MNS, i will produce a video about smooth opening & closing movements - my set are significantly stiffer to open then the other sets that weekend because the paint is in a later stage of deterioration.

With Jed's buugeng, it still tightened up if i opened and closed them 3 times in one direction, so it is a matter of the overall design also.

you are fortunate to not have this paint issue!

again, i would like a fire buugeng! it's the only toy i play regularly with that i can't burn!

Something has clearly gone wrong with my buugeng... I was adapting well to them yesterday, but today my left buugeng is going out of plane. I'll post a video at some point next week just to show off how pretty mine are. I really like the look of them without paint.

simple, just swap the left buugeng with your right buugeng!