Top 10 Staffs & Sticks for Martial-Arts, Fitness & The Outdoors From Around The World

[@angela_merkeI]

The anti-stick you from the beginning is just like my mum🤣 During covid I started doing wood-related crafts again and now I have so many walking staffs, a club, a kanabō, a spear thrower and a flail in my room, to the great annoyance of hers. It's not my fault that I follow the primieval call of the stick.

[@keptleroymg6877]

She is afraid of the sticks because they will make you a man and take you away from her control.

[@piccalillipit9211]

Its in mans nature to have a stick.

[@FandabiDozi]

Haha! I'll admit I learned that disapproving look from my mum 😂

[@shorgravan]

As a contact staff guy, that intro really got me too! Cheers, fellow members of the Order Of The Stick.

[@collinnicolazzo2065]

​@@FandabiDoziplease don't tell me that's a actual definition for like sticks

[@MinecraftHedgehog]

That pillow stick was awesome 🔥🔥🔥

[@General_Kenobi_212]

Now I want a pillow stick. 😅

[@danielcox7629]

They are very comforting. And if a mouse sneaks into your bed you have an answer to them.

[@jimsweeney]

Australian aboriginal weapons were pretty impressive, especially since they were carved from very dense wood using only stone tools. The waddy is also called a nulla-nulla, and was used as a club, throwing stick and digging stick. FYI, "waddy" rhymes with "toddy", not with "caddy" 🙂

[@DylanHubbard-d1p]

I even read it as woddy before seeing the end🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

[@marcusfridh8489]

Pick your wood and stick with it but dont forget to branch out in further development it can become the crown of your hobbies with strong roots

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

🤣🤣👍🏻

[@mattjack3983]

Excellent play on words. Very well said, Sir.

[@marcusfridh8489]

@@mattjack3983 wordplays of an Autist

[@jacquec9768]

I feel so seen! I spent a season rescuing an old orchard from neglect, so my 'one stick to rule them all' is a pear water sprout I heat treated and waxed. Naturally I brought it home and also had to face the stick-deficient non believers.

[@mattjack3983]

Very nice. Sounds like you have yourself an excellent stick now. I pay no attention to the non-believers and naysayers. I know that our ancestors who knew the value of a decent stick, and keep a good quality stick around, were the ancestors who got to pass their genes along to future generations. So the non-believers can say what they will, because the joke's on them. They are only here today because at some point in the past, a man with a stick and little else, was able to survive long enough to make his mark on the world and leave his genetic legacy here before his time was up.

[@wobblysauce]

Australia has several great sticks, like the Woomera... makes you throw your stick 35m and hit your target with power. The Woomera are so cool and were multi-purpose too- a knife on the other side, shaped like a bowl to carry foraged materials, maps were sometimes painted on them for navigation and also had notches to help start fires. A genius tool for surviving the outback

[@FandabiDozi]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing. I'll research that stick further 😊

[@CharlesWarrington]

As a fellow former Aikido student I love the channel's focus on staff fighting and sticks in general. Such useful tools in the wild particularly against Geese.

[@philipmccrackeniii4575]

Mine is a bamboo stick... Japanese Kendo

[@stephenbouchelle7706]

Haha. I’m another.

[@dotcal23]

Just remember, while they are full of gusto, geese are only a bird and you must not hit them hard, just push and they will at least peck the stick instead of you. After all, geese and ducks and swans have blunt beaks. Just put you arms out to look bigger and they will be intimidated. Just take a stamping step towards them. Sorry, I really worry about birds and people. Birds have thin bones that could be damaged. I had run in with black swans regularly and just used to try and look big. I am only 5'.

[@IsmaelAyo-l6d]

Am filipino and we are using stick as a form of selfdefence like arnis, kali etc.

[@lpeterman]

"Hello, I'm Lee... And I am a Stickaholic." (Doleful chorus: "Hi Lee...") Guilty, as charged; must be my Scots/Irish/Norman roots. (Pun intended.) I cut invasive English hawthorn and other species of hardwoods on my 80-acre wooded property in Oregon and have hundreds of sticks "on the go." With 80-acres of material to choose from, I'll never run out of choices, (and my workshop IS overflowing with candidate sticks for "future" projects for cleaning/scraping and finishing.) The "Twisty Pagan stick" was especially close to my heart, as I have dozens of such. It is a good affliction and I'm not ashamed of my "Stickaholic-ness" If being a Stickaholic is wrong, I will never be right... Cheers and big thumbs-up from a Colonial Stickaholic with Deep UK roots, now in the Willamette Valley, Oregon Country.

[@B90-y6n]

I thought I was the only person who has this problem. Beautiful actually.

[@mattjack3983]

Hey now! Inherently understanding the value of decent stick is NEVER a "problem", nor should you ever allow yourself to think of it as such.

[@knate44]

Have you heard of Francis McCaffery? He does traditional blackthorn staves and shillelaghs, his family has been making them for generations. I live in Canada so it was too expensive with shipping but if I ever make it to Ireland I’d love to see his shop.

[@_Green_Onions_]

You commented what I was going to comment!

[@snorkherder]

Sticktastic video, I too have stick problem, I'm not ashamed, Thank you for bringing stick awareness to the wider world.

[@lukeg2188]

i got a nice fighting shillelagh from Olde Shillelagh online. Made from Blackthorn with lead loaded in the head, I love it. They sell regular walking shillelaghs too though.

[@FandabiDozi]

Cool! Thanks for sharing 😮

[@hemisphere22]

Agreed, great service and excellent products. Mr O Caidhla is a gent. I was able to get one with lead in both ends. A bit odd looking as a walking stick but moves beautifully when I start swinging it.

[@Steve-ls3yy]

I had so much work lined up this morning. Not now,. After watching this (and posting this comment) I headed to the shed to look in on my modest collection of sticks. Funny first 2 minutes.

[@Poisonedblade]

That twisty ritual stick is badass!!!

[@fireforger9192]

Good video really funny “Stick deficiency”😂. But very true it is only in the last 100-200 yrs that we’ve stopped having staffs/walking sticks etc that were used for much more than just walking with. Really want to make myself a blackthorn or hawthorn quarter staff

[@FandabiDozi]

Absolutely

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

When a problem comes along You must stick it Before the cream sits out too long You must stick it When something's going wrong You must stick it

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

Bravo! Awesome comment 😆

[@ASentientPlant]

Stick it! Stick it GOOD ! 🎶

[@TheGREYPELT]

I have four shillelagh that I pulled from a storm-downed red oak, and they are pretty much my favorite sticks. They run the gamut of length from club to walking stick, and no two have the exact same use.

[@Kinetic.44]

A crook handle walking cane made of hickory is excellent, It's a medical device that can be legally taken into government buildings and abord airliners.

[@debluetailfly]

The guard questioned me at the State Capitol. He knew I didn't have to have it, but he also knew it was legal, so he let me in. It did come in handy for balance on some steep steps. Over a hundred years ago they built some steps that aren't all that safe to navigate.

[@nicksweeney5176]

*aboard

[@straifborn352]

Mcaffrey crafts in Ireland makes a fine blackthorn shillelagh for a good price, he’s got a channel on KZbin as well. I been making blackthorn shillelaghs, canes and staffs for bout 13 years here in Tasmania Australia, truly my favourite stick!😂

[@Jay-kl4zk]

Just found your channel, and like genuinely I don't know if I've ever met someone else who shared my love of martial arts, the outdoors, and woodworking all as extensions of my love of a good stick. This is beautiful

[@TW_SlingStone]

You should definitely pursue this highlander staff sword! It’s like a Scottish taiaha but much more great sword like. If you do, you should test the psi transfer compared to a regular staff of the same weight and so on.

[@OldScratch81]

The ultimate walking stick for me would be a narwhal tusk or a walrus ding aling , the ding aling stick is more of a club but could be up to 3 feet long

[@Thorne_MacGregor]

I love your videos. They are truly an inspiration to me. Of your looking for a blackthorn shillelagh I would check out McCaffrey Crafts. They make them for a living and I've been meaning to get one from them myself.

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

I have a handful of sticks I chose for myself, but for different reasons. I have a rosewood stick - our 20 year old rosebushes are so thick they produce wood, and one regrettably had to be trimmed way down to the base due to old age. I claimed some of the thicker branches, removed the thorns, cut a perpendicular branch into a handle, and boom - rosewood walking stick. Its very springy but strong, feels great in the hand, very light but reasonably durable. My other sticks are hibiscus - tall, dry, springy, but I have no doubt they'd be great in a fight. They spiral and twist naturally at points, so the most comfortabke crooks became the handles of each.

[@lymphy12]

"Stick deficiency" giggity

[@debluetailfly]

I have a cane fitted with a handsaw type handle, and with marbles captured in the stick below the handle. Made by an old man near Ardmore, TN. He has been gone for a long time now. Another long stick is, I think, hornbeam. from the Ozark Mountains; it is a super strong wood, and looks like it is rippling with muscles.

[@57WillysCJ]

You need a rabbit stick. My favorite hiking stick is made from a Osage Orange sapling. Old timers always used a story stick or pole when they built a house or barn.

[@VinceMoran-en5sv]

Love the way you turned this around.... Critical thinking ❤. You can never.... Ever have enough sticks ❤✊

[@josephturner7569]

Hah! I am definitely a stickaholic. I made my grandson one when he was five. Sanded, varnished and his name inscribed. I currently have a wizzards staff.

[@nerfherder4284]

Perfect timing, I was about to go look for a stick after my coffee, unfortunately mostly fir and cedars about, but I have my eye on a nice straight alder branch....👍🏻✌🏻 You are getting really good at making videos where you talk to yourself 😂

[@ADE1000SON]

Man, you did a really great job with this video!! Greetings from Brazil!!!

[@00Klingon]

Speaking of Carl Jung, I really appreciate ENTP personalities such as yourself. I feel lots of comradery in our similarities and yet can appreciate our differences. Always a bit fanatical about what you're excited about and want to share that excitement with others, like handing out ballons and candy, that always put's a smile on my face and I appreciate the sense of satisfaction you bring in all you do.

[@ek-nz]

I picked up a really nice willow stick at the beginning of a long walk a couple of months ago. My dog helped me find it. It’s a similar length to one of my manuka sticks, exactly the same weight but twice as thick. The manuka stick in question I picked up off the ground in thick bush so it’s got some bora holes in it, but I carved it while on that camping trip and it’s a great length. I must revisit some of my older sticks too, now that this video makes it ok to be a stickoholic! I’ll also check my holly hedge that has got too tall, since I’m sure there must be a good stick to be had there. I could do with a slightly shorter one because of the Gandalf thing mentioned in the video - most of my sticks are chin height.

[@GreySquirrelly1016]

Olde Shillelagh Stick makers is an amazing Irish blackthorn stick making company! I’ve got three of theirs love them.

[@trikepilot101]

I have always wanted an umbrella cane with a split handle that can be used as a stool. It would be the Swiss Army Knife of sticks.

[@tomkenney5365]

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A stick.

[@terrienhumain6723]

So brilliant, I personnally hold on to many sticks myself lol.

[@xipulli]

Danke!

[@FandabiDozi]

Thank you so much! You're a legend!

[@LuxisAlukard]

I just love those intros, they are in full movie mode, and all of a sudden - breaking the forth wall with "you folk can come to if you want" :)

[@quentinsaville2950]

In RE: Stick Height. I note that in the Boy Scout books the recommended height is just under the nose. Which btw would hold a compass at the right height for ease of viewing.

[@defaultoandores626]

Great video ! I feel you, I practice Canne de combat and I now have a cane/stick problem at home !

[@jeffjag2691]

I follow the “5 stick” rule. You NEED 5 sticks; the short stick (measured from elbow to hand), the waist stick (ground to waist like a cane), the short head stick ( measured from the ground to shoulder/head), the talk head stick ( measured from ground to just above head), and finally the 10 ft pole (10ft+)

[@IsmaelAyo-l6d]

From Philippines,even the ancient egyptians were using the sticks from moses to the old folks of asian.you can easily bit an intruders with silent counter attack. From the Philippines

[@Rascal77s]

I made my stick out of a 1/2" rod of titanium with a nice grippy high density foam handle for a fishing pole. Great for hiking and smacking things that deserve it.

[@WMfin]

Thanks for keeping the dream alive!

[@erikhoff5010]

Excellent workmanship and information!

[@stephengarrett8076]

Outstanding 👍

[@FandabiDozi]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@citikas]

As a spindle and distaff spinner, and a stickoholic, I feel seen and understood.

[@bcase5328]

Knitters also like sticks.

[@matthaiosdoesart1234]

yea a lot of the gum trees and eucalyptus trees and other native trees in Australia are very dense woods, I have one its my heavy weight staff that I use for strength and conditioning.

[@shootermcgavin991]

I wish there was an option to love a video! Always been a stickaholic. Sticks rule!!!

[@AstroScience-fr]

Captivating video. I admire your work and the way you transmit your energy.

[@philholman8520]

Terrific! Thank you for sharing!👍

[@atticusfinch6038]

I respected you for your stick knowledge. I revere you for the carl jung reference.

[@shorgravan]

Love the idea of the story stick!

[@josephr9551]

Thank you Tom, that is an instructive video and I appreciate you doing it. We guys sure love holding sticks, if you know what I mean.

[@asmith7876]

I used to be juried woodcarving artist, sold spoons but also walking sticks I'd carve on, most wood spirit type faces. I would find saplings that vines had strangled, twisting them. I have a staff made of wax wood, native to China. Super smooth, relatively straight, ridiculously strong, they are used in martial arts.

[@PaulWinning-d3x]

Funny as hell born in Glasgow spent 14 years in Japan and 17 in China doing different arts and people never quite had that word to describe me...brilliant

[@Master.09614]

Glory to Ukraine With love from Ukraine. 🎉🎉🎉

[@nblhrt92]

Stick envy is real and treatable lads

[@Terry_weston4570]

Nothing like a good stick.

[@ifiddle2]

I keep a nice shillelagh type stick made from Dogwood with a nice little knob on the end in my van. Wicked dense! Alas, I only have four other sticks in various links. Old tool/broom handles are good candidates for your collection. Cheers! Love your stuff.

[@PAULWICKS-xy6kt]

nice one dude, a fellow stickaholic.! simple as, like a world without string is a world in chaos.

[@orlennmurphy6843]

You want a good shillelagh? Pop over to Kilkenny next year in August for Kilkenny Arts Week, and hit up every market and event that mentions wood turning. You will find more shillelaghs - and more great walking sticks - than you can shake an exceptional new stick at!

[@martinli8151]

One stick to rule them all.1=2

[@angelaholsapple8830]

Sticks are my love language

[@John_Falcon]

Ever tried a bamboo long staff? c: It's my favorite stick. I too have a stick addiction. Mine is the length of my body, plus the length of one of my arms all the way up... which for me is about 8 feet tall, where I'm about 6'. I made it for yoga, stretching my back and arms in ways only a long staff could. Also, I have a few of those Spirally pagan sticks. Yours is great, though! Beautiful stick.

[@KaijuBiologist]

Ahh, I have found my people.😊 I have been a stickaholic for all my life, much to the chagrin of my parents. I, too, am a fan of the jo staff and Eastern weapons including the bokken and suburitu. I am also a fan of Cold Steel and their variety of extremely tough polypropylene weapons. I recommend checking them out.

[@MrRettcher]

Very well done - very entertaining!

[@jeffandthings77]

That intro is awesome! It might have also been a conversation between my wife and I before...😇

[@Brettmlyons]

Love getting your emails buddy. Keep up the good work

[@williamstamper5395]

Aye! the sticks of life, one which one should have as an keep sake, aye! cheerio.

[@paleo52]

You have good stick material growing where you live. I live in the USA in the state of Montana,we don't have good stick material where I live.

[@rico_ricolino]

You should try the martial arts of the canaries called “juego del palo” and “lucha del garrote”, there is also a way to go easier through accidental land with a long spear style called “salto del pastor”, all from the aboriginal islanders of the canaries. All these styles are practiced today in the islands. They have not disappeared

[@straifborn352]

Technically the pillow stick is a cudgel ie shillelagh! Once crafted it’s more than just a stick!!

[@Outrider74]

I actually did that as well. I made two walking sticks with a bokken blade on each.

[@davemoffat8047]

Too late I've been a stick-a-holic for years, making them all the time. I used to copice some blackthorn (favourite) wood) many years ago. Got my eye on some Blackthorn and 1 piece of Hawthorn not far away, but across a deep muddy burn, I plan to cut some next winter to at least make a shilelagh.

[@dreamsalamander]

Have u heard of the shepherd's leap or salto del pastor? They use sticks to vault-traverse over hilly terrain and even safely jump down from impressive heights...

[@JoesWebPresence]

Mine's a 4'6" ash pole with an antler handle and a carved doe's foot. I also have a Shillelagh hung up at the door. Both are home made. The walking stick is a statement of intent and the mark of a pilgrim. It is a probe, a hoist, a lever, a tent pole, depth gague, a rescue device, a flagpole and a very handy place to store cordage. If you are equipped with a suitable stick, I assume you are fine. A seasoned traveller. If I meet someone on the hill without one, I always wonder if they are OK.

[@Arviragus13]

That intro skit has made me realise that my spirit animal is Fandabi Dozi

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

Thankyou for the laugh , neede one . I made some but looks like i made the to short .

[@rex8255]

The other loved and valuable group that loves sticks... Dogs. My dog Orion LOVES a good stick!

[@tyclapp7310]

This man Is ready for the wizard war

[@jacobalexandersmith619]

Pure braw. 👍❤️👍

[@mrkultra1655]

Thanks

[@TenaciousDanzig]

This is definitely one of the best stick related videos i have seen. This may even be the start of a new hobby. What have you done!?

[@TermiteUSA]

Dude you are seriously funny but I love your weapons advice and survival techniques.

[@meljane8339]

That seems like a pretty good synopsis.

[@autumnaki725]

Currently working on 2 oak staffs, one is a shillelagh with a knot on one end, and the other looks like a wizard staff. They’re sanded and ready for design work, but I don’t know what I want to burn onto them yet 😂 (i have commitment issues when it comes to these sorts of projects lol) I think I’ll take inspiration from the designs your partner made and try to come up with my own 😊

[@JustClaude13]

First: That's a great hat. I'm along time hat person and I can't resist a great hat. Second: It's true. You have a serious stick addiction and I need to learn how I can have a serious addiction, too. I need to learn some basics for my writing hobby. My ogres need a fighting style for the sake of the story. I'm off to the home improvement store to get a one inch dowel for a short practice stick.

[@journeyman7189]

Great video Tom and I must confess. I am a stickaholic as well Nate

[@socalautisticman1975]

I have 2 hiking 🥾 sticks ,a cane of an irregular shape stick that has been treated directly to make the cane & appearantly looks like it's been based on stick style that native American of Baja California, Mexico would use against coyotes. I also have a heavy plastic stick with a tennis ball at the base (I'd say if attacked by wild animals it would bite on the tennis ball because you'd need to put it towards it's mouth to not get bit.

[@c.r.8789]

Oh my God! I think I'm also a stick-oholic !! I can't help but pick them up when I'm hiking and sculpt them !😂😂

[@captaincokecan]

So many sticks!!!

[@Lowlandlord]

Stick will defend me from the curse of the cobra chicken?!?!? Bastards chase me into traffic all the time!

[@patchbeard]

I love how you did the Spongebob "HMMMMMMMM?" bit

[@CloudSpirals]

I too do stick. Stick works! 🙏

[@CloudSpirals]

Stick is life.

[@Ta-Seti-Ra]

Lol! I'm going to send this video to everyone in my contacts list...

[@gcvrsa]

One thing that should be mentioned about rattan is that it does not splinter the way wood will splinter, which is why it is so often used for striking weapons in Southeast Asian fighting styles, like Filipino escrima/arnis/kali.

[@silvafox8371]

Thank you Excellent video. I am a fellow stick a holic lol

[@markwritt8541]

I bet you can get out of many sticky situations with a collection like that.

[@The_Okami]

Pls make a video about the history and use of the two handed scottish greatsword aka claymore. Very hard to do research on the topic