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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shurai" data-source="post: 3737004">Well, we have the internet, look it up.  I googled for "staff fight" and got lots of good interesting stuff.I'll tell you my own experience though.  The staff is funny, because it's got multiple personalities.  It can act like a greatsword, a spear, or "itself."  I personally am trained to use it like a spear with some funny extra properties -- that is, I hold it so it points at my enemy, with my hands at the close end and the middle, and thrust or swing the far end at my enemy, using the shaft-part that's away from my hands for most of my defense.However, I'm also trained to shift my grip so I have roughly equal parts of staff-end on either side (basically, imagine me holding the thing about shoulder-width space between my hands), and make rapid swinging hits and defensive knocking actions with alternating ends.This is interesting though, because almost all weapons could be modified to suit the situation like this, it just so happens that the staff is more well-known for it perhaps than other weapons.  I've seen the half-swording and "murder blows" of the western medeival sword-manuals, for instance.I wouldn't put it in the polearm category though, because most of those were much longer than the staff, right?  It's kind of a different ballgame, seems to me.So, if it were me, I'd put the staff in the same category as "Two-handed cutting/slashing", because you can use it most like those weapons:  You "swing" the staff rather than "slash" with it, but the motions are most similar.  And, all those weapons, I believe, were also used for thrusting.This is representing a broader context than Europe though.  I want to say that the European tradition of quarterstavery puts more emphasis on two-endedness, and I don't think they believed in shifting the hands around live during a fight.</blockquote>

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