That's about their length: from my hands to the top of the image. Strong and light as they are cut from rattan. The tiger burn marks are Filipino traditional.
You can use one in a drill...or you can use two.
Much as I am passionate about my Jō staff, these sticks done right are awesome.
As I mentioned in the past, I am doing drills with the Jō and with kali sticks.
Very different attack with the kali sticks as you work close into your opponent -- imagining you're slicing and dicing them with a knife or a machete. Or simply bonking them senseless like wielding a truncheon.
One minute you are seated at the internet -- the next, you're kali-ing the beegeebers out of the air, adapting any footwork to the space on hand.
All the wrist and forearm work is totally in sync with Jō staff training. Just imagine Popeye --and those forearms with or without spinach.
There is more to kali than stick attacks -- but that's my interest. But for something easy to do -- well, it is more correct to say it is easy to try to do -- it ticks a lot of boxes for the newbie martial artist.
So if you want a little exertion to spark up the old bod in the evening between NetFlix and the washing up -- do some kali.
In the kitchen. Before bed. While waiting for the kettle to boil or the meal to cook.
Hardly like any of that dojo ritualism. No change of clothes. No bowing. No etiquette.
