Specifically, they turned to a martial arts form known as Filipino stick fighting. “The martial arts in the Philippines are like baseball and football in the United States,” said Andy Sanano ...

but what happened to the good ol' days of just bludgeoning the daylights out of someone with a big stick? Well, thanks to City of Heroes, those days are back courtesy of the new Staff Fighting ...

And though the sequences below combine traditional bo movements with XMA spins ... an XMA move—you wouldn’t wrap the staff around your body in a fight, that’s more for a competition or ...