18 Jo Staff Stretches To Open Up Your Shoulders and Upper Back

Sensei Guy Hagen demonstrates 18 different flexibility and warmup exercises performed with a jo (short staff), inspired by Yoga and a few decades of various martial arts practices. The short staff provides excellent leverage and expansion for opening up your lats and upper back, and for building flexibility in your shoulders.
As always - train safely, and don't do anything that your doctor would make your doctor roll her eyes.
The ASU Aikido Chuseikan of Tampa Bay dojo is affiliated with the Aikido Schools of Ueshiba and Aikido World Headquarters, and provides quality adult and family martial arts instruction in Tampa, Florida.
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[@A.I8I.M]

I feel that this is so helpful to relieve pain over this whole area [the shoulder, the neck and the backbone, too] Thank you very much! I'm so glad and lucky to find your channel and get so many wonderful and useful tips and ideas to add and develop and to use in many situations, too. Martial arts are life and greetings from Egypt!👊🔥🇪🇬🇪🇬

[@A.I8I.M]

MartialArts can be used as therapy by many moves and exercises. I myself was recoverd from a pain in my knee by starting practising material arts exercises like stretching ones. Thanks again! Have a great day and life!

[@bigsidable]

Been working the Jo for 20 years. My favorite weapon training. I’ve been doing these stretches that long. Great tool. My Jo is a 5.5 ft 3/4 inch closet pole. I ordered a Jo online. Feels like a twig compared to my closet pole.🤣🤣🤣Merry Christmas Sensei. Live your details of the Principles of Aiki. Oss.

[@bigsidable]

Yoga with The Jo Staff.

[@davemail]

These stretches are really excellent. Sensei's cold stare is, however, somewhat hard to take! Still a keeper.

[@KenLives333]

this smile though...

[@cagliostro1970]

Thanks, in this times of pandemic, it is a very interessing solo exercice, greetings from Aikikai Biella Italy

[@antarjyotiantarjyoti7205]

thank you! excellent! feels good!