() is the martial art of stick fighting using a bō, which is the Japanese word for staff.Sticks and Stones Will Break Your Bones: A Look at Jo and Bo
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n martial arts like Silambam. Some techniques involve slashing, swinging, and stabbing with the staff. Others involve using the staff as a vaulting pole or as a prop for hand-to-hand strikes. Today ''bōjutsu'' is usually associated either with Okinawan '' kobudō'' or with

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ese '' koryū budō''. Japanese ''bōjutsu'' is one of the core elements of classical martial training. Thrusting, swinging, and striking techniques often resemble empty-hand movements, following the philosophy that the ''bō'' is merely an "extension of one’s limbs".Weapons
Consequently, bōjutsu is often incorporated into other styles of empty-hand fighting, like traditional Jū-jutsu, and karate. In the Okinawan context, the weapon is frequently referred to as the ''kon'' (棍).

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* Stick-fighting Japanese martial arts Ko-ryū bujutsu {{Japan-martialart-stub

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