Martial Arts Weapons Karate Bo Staff

http://www.clintcora.com presents a demonstration of martial arts weapons with motivational speaker and karate world champion Clint Cora performing with the karate bo staff. Martial arts articles at http://www.martialartsarticlesonline.com

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Clint is a Canadian motivational speaker who speaks to audiences in companies, associations, colleges, schools and other organizations on both motivation personal development as well as diversity.

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[chemclimber]

I am interested are you imagining opponents when you do these performances or are you just "dancing"?

[clintleung]

@chemclimber Thats a valid question and I would assume that you come from a traditional background. This is an example of an open style weapons form that has been very successful in competition including at the world championship level. There are forms out there that are even more free style compared to this one as they involved gymnastics and more twirling of the bo. These are known as extreme forms.  Both open and extreme forms are not well accepted by the purists but they are here to stay.

[chemclimber]

@clintleung Thank you for replying to me. I did gymnastics for over 10years and can appreciate the intricacies of your movements and the skill required! My question was more to work out what's going through your mind whilst you are performing. Since I started martial arts (about 2 years ago) and doing kata/paired kata I've not yet developed the state of mind where I can think less about "this foot there, this hand there" and just "do" as I did in gymnastics. Good luck with your training

[clintleung]

@chemclimber Believe it or not, each move, at least in my forms even though they are considered open forms, have an application. And if you see where my head is turned, it is an imaginary battle. The judges do look for these things. I've competed since 1985 and just retired a few years ago with a very long track record so I can certainly defend the validity of open free style forms. If you go to the largest tournaments in NA, you will see both traditional and open (plus extreme) forms

[chemclimber]

@clintleung Very interesting, what made you decide to move away from traditional forms and compete in open tournaments? Also how do the "traditionalists" fair in these mixed tournaments?

[clintleung]

@chemclimber I just like performing and watching open forms more. I can structure the forms to fit my body. The traditionalists do very poorly if in an open division so what has evolved for many years now is that big tournaments will have separate divisions for traditional, open and extreme. This makes things more fair.

[IAmStormCloud]

well handled but please audio swap thats the most annoying noise i heard ever

[ZenDuro]

Great form and good job. The music really sucks though.

[maximedufour1997]

And the,Indiana Jones arrives and take out his gun

[SortofAlmostAlTheWay]

0:55 priceless



[zeshinka]

is it a jo staff

[clintleung]

@vRsBaBy I would caution folks here, especially if they are real martial artists, to show respect. Otherwise, comments are removed.