Polypropylene Bo Staff

Infi-del

Infi-del

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Think Cold Steel will ever make a Bo Staff out of Polypropylene. Think it would make a great item and damn near indestructible staff. Shouldn't be hard to manufacture either.
 
I'd buy a few. A 6 foot long crooked top cane of Polypropylene would be awesome too. Make the PERFECT hiking staff. You could use the crook to support yourself coming downhill, or anchor tree branches and pull yourself uphill. Thousand and one uses for a 6 foot cane.
 
I love Cold Steels Polypropylene stuff. Where was it when I was a kid? We used to have war games (Basically LARPing) and beat the snot out of each other with broom handles and branches and stuff. What I wouldn't have given for a Cold Steel Bokken and Poly Staff back then.
 
Infi-del said:
I'd buy a few. A 6 foot long crooked top cane of Polypropylene would be awesome too. Make the PERFECT hiking staff. You could use the crook to support yourself coming downhill, or anchor tree branches and pull yourself uphill. Thousand and one uses for a 6 foot cane.
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Yes! A straight 6 footer and a crooked top 6 footer would be wonderful!
 
I would LOVE a polypropylene staff, since I'm a bojutsu student and I'd like a staff that I'd never have to worry about breaking. I'd buy one as soon as it was released.
 
I've always wondered about Bo staffs. Hypotheticallly you have something resembling a bow in your hand and an opponent I feet away rushes you for either a strike or a wraparound for a take down what is your tactic? Which strikes and where? Foot movement in this instance?
 
cchu518 said:
I've always wondered about Bo staffs. Hypotheticallly you have something resembling a bow in your hand and an opponent I feet away rushes you for either a strike or a wraparound for a take down what is your tactic? Which strikes and where? Foot movement in this instance?
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Grab it with both hands 2 feet apart horizontal and crack them in the face with it. If nothing else it creates and instant barrier and you can kick them in the jewels or buy enough time to step back and crush their jaw with one end of it. Or bust their forward knee and take their leg out of the fight. You can also thrust with a staff. A six foot rod being thrust into your sternum isn't going to feel great.
 
Kwon Kwang said:
I would LOVE a polypropylene staff, since I'm a bojutsu student and I'd like a staff that I'd never have to worry about breaking. I'd buy one as soon as it was released.
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The big question is tapered or not. I prefer not. It would probably weigh a little more than a regular Bo but that would be great for training purposes as it would build up your grip strength. Probably make you more fluid for demonstrations with a wooden Bo.
 
BlackKnight86 said:
Yes! A straight 6 footer and a crooked top 6 footer would be wonderful!
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Agreed, in my mind a crooked top staff (Like a Shepherd's Staff) would be great for hiking. You could grab uphill tree branches and pull yourself up and let yourself downhill easily. Plus possibly handle snakes with ease, maybe grab something in a stream... or pull your small boat towards a shore side tree... or whatever. The uses of that crook would be endless. I'm nearly about to spend $100.00 for one made of Ash.. Cold Steel could sell Poly Models and they'd fly off the shelf. If nothing else maybe we can find a way to heat and bend a Poly Bo Staff... wouldn't be a 6 foot crook top... but it would be a 4.5 to 5 foot. Better than nothing.
 
Infi-del said:
The big question is tapered or not. I prefer not. It would probably weigh a little more than a regular Bo but that would be great for training purposes as it would build up your grip strength. Probably make you more fluid for demonstrations with a wooden Bo.
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I'd prefer not tapered as well; however, what I think would be a necessity is rounded points. Though it's definitely not a problem with polypropylene, with wood the flat ends can cause splitting. I could be wrong, but I also thing rounded points are better for thrusts (though pointier, like a kubaton, would be even better for that).
 
You can (if youre trained w/ a Bo, and In not) VERY easily disarm an opponent w/ it, especially if its made of a hardwood like cocobolo. Ive got a 14" baton made outa that stuff...hardest piece o' wood Ive ever seen in my whole dammed life. But that CS black poly stuff...ooooh---when you consider the whipping, snap-back effect on a weapon like that...hell, I don't want to be hit w/ it.

I designed a pair of canadian crutches made of schedule 40 stainless "brewers" pipe. I kept bending/breaking my aluminum ones in martial arts class.

Those things are basically a big steel tonfa w/ a forearm cuff on one end and a rubber tip on the other. I was designing a self defense system based on them because I didn't want a firearm to be my only option.

Trust me....you don't wanna drop this on your toe, much less take a full power strike, It would, without a doubt be able to produce a lethal blow w/ proper training.

But alas, I have managed to *warp* one of them.

If I could use the CS poly to remake these, they would be SOLID poly, just like the Brooklyn Smasher.

Tougher, lighter, stops edged weapons cold, no permanent warping, and can absorb over 300 degrees of heat w/ no ill effect as far as I know.

I said all of that to say this. Any person that is properly instructed in the use of the Bo, and knows how to use it is deadly.

Make that Bo outa CS poly....look out, Mr. Agressor, you just had a REALLY bad day.
 
I don't know a damn thing about staff combat or martial arts so it doesn't affect me any, but I'm actually really surprised CS doesn't already make one of these. Seems like it'd be a perfect fit for them. I mean, they make stuff like the sjambok, Blackthorn walking stick, escrima sticks...a bo seems like it'd fit right in.
 
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