It All Starts With Staff

[@JamieHaleyy]

More staff videos 🙌🙏

[@helenkrane6313]

Mark, is there going to be a playlist for staff training videos? Please say yes……..pretty please?

[@charleshaskins5324]

When I watch my kids do this naturally it makes me know we’re on the right path here. We just drift away from it with all the “good, reliable and new” Information that comes To us at hyper speed

[@estherpalenschat4356]

Sigh...maybe by end of summer I can and will, get back to Longsword. Seeing this inspires me. My teacher in past has been great helping me adapt to my personal body injury patterns(ankle immobility from a broken ankle as a kid and thay causes havoc above) so I can actually do a thing, and still have fun, and occasionally make some solid strikes when sparring. Except for the long lasting hand and forearm bruises, while being a massage therapist it's been great fun! On hiatus for now, and I miss it.

[@froinlaven71]

"Don't get hit in the face" - This applies heavily to club training. 😁

[@bthompson1229]

Even moreso to kettlebell training

[@joshpeters6713]

Very interesting..I found your channel because I am looking at moving from staff to Naginata, and got a heavy mace to help me with the movements of the naginata.

[@a.lame.username.]

Sticks were my favourite long before heavy steel things were even a thing.

[@anindyabiswas6789]

Man sees nerd shit that makes you savage. Man gets happy.

[@oldgrizz8720]

Mark, in my younger days, I was introduced to Jo Do the short staff (40") used in Aikido. It was used in defense against Samurai. When I started doing mace and clubs I instantly made the connection. Love that you have put all these "levers" into cohesive patterns of training.

[@iiiemc1674]

Everything falls into place w/wldmn instruction...amazing

[@EmorettaRobinson]

When I went to the website recently I wondered if Mark still offered staff training? I can see how it would be very beneficial to movement and helpful.

[@Travishibachi87]

He hosts seminars and has the dates posted on his Wildman Athletica website 👍

[@EmorettaRobinson]

@@Travishibachi87 thank you. I don't know why I didn't see those dates when I went to the website last week. I was looking into the kettlebell and slam ball programs he offers. For some reason I thought he didn't offer staff training anymore. But again thank you.

[@Travishibachi87]

@EmorettaRobinson You're very welcome. I've been following Mark on here since 2020 so let me know if you have anymore questions 👍

[@aruncps]

Drive forever forward ❤

[@khourytalal]

this is very interesting, I come from AiKiDo and we use to do quite a lot of JoDo training that i absolutely love. i do Mace training now and my JoDo training is helping me understand the unbalanced Mace. i invite yout o look into the Japanese JO way of training and the Kata. (same as the Staff probably). it's a beautiful tool. And thank. you for your videos by the way. very helpful

[@MarkWildman]

I did aikido for years. The problem with kata is the lack of decisions. I found I moved pretty but couldn’t make the decision to not get hit fast enough I removed the kata. And went to purely decision based training

[@ericfitzpatrick1929]

Ambi-turner, nice! Great movie...Ha

[@Lardfist0]

EXCELSIOR!!

[@maxpower8052]

I train alone but will see if I can get some equipment set up to at least train the offensive part of this idea to at least get my hands adapted and improve my endurance LOL

[@railmeat]

Are we training our OODA loops now? With a stick? Sounds interesting, but I don't see the connection. Staff training looks interesting.

[@timothyvojta9237]

where can I find staff training in Atlanta, GA?

[@osoblues]

website to buy staffs please.

[@cultofhercules]

Would be nice to get some equipment recommendations. Not sure what staff to buy.

[@williamshears9953]

Those look like cold steel

[@terryharris1291]

Cold steel,they have great training tools that last.

[@davidscholten6707]

I hesitate to be critical since I’ve never tried staff but I’m genuinely curious. Is there a padded version of staff to make it a sport where there’s some strategy or competitiveness? The movement looks so stiff & telegraphed that the athlete in me kinda cringes watching it.

[@terryharris1291]

The reason it looks that way is because they are training and teaching.You need to learn slow to go fast.If you train to much with padded gear it teaches you bad habits.

[@lihchong2267]

You're probably after something like buhurt.

[@MarkWildman]

Buhurt is about 10k in armor. Staffs 50$

[@Matthca1235]

I thought the same thing, but this video makes it more compelling. It's really about the threat of getting hit and hurt and learning to add high frequency, high-stakes decision making into your movement. This isn't achieved as someone was suggesting elsewhere, with club, because any variability in club swinging is secondary to decision (within the decision - action part of OODA), the observation / orientation part of the OODA loop isn't isolated.

[@terryharris1291]

Have a look at Dog brothers and see how they do it with ,staff and Kali sticks.

[@morgan19555]

where to you get the staffs you use?

[@MarkWildman]

Cold steel

[@morgan19555]

@@MarkWildman thank you for the info.

[@d_Gnome]

Mark in shorts...doesn't seem right.

[@ArturoMurilloMx]

Black short. obviously

[@tbx59]

It must be hot to be in shorts.