The staff  has been a common weapon among the many cultures of Earth since ancient times.  Over the ages, humans have used this basic weapon for self-defense and for contest.  It enjoyed popularity throughout the middle ages, and as recently as a century ago, fighting with the quarterstaff was considered so essential that it was included in the "Boy Scout Handbook." Unfortunately, it has since fallen out of fashion among combat martial arts.  While the eskrimadors of the Philippines have done much in recent years to promote combat arts with the short stick world wide, little has been done to preserve and progress 
the true art of fighting with the long stick, or staff.

In this work, "The Art and Science of Staff Fighting", I present the best of Eastern and Western traditions (along with a few in between), unified seamlessly to create a modern, logical, progressive, compact, and culturally diverse system of staff fighting that is easy to learn and applicable to any practitioner from any style.

If you want to learn how to actually fight with the staff, you would do well to spend your time studying the roots of the tree rather than smelling its flowers.
                                                                                                  -Joe Varady, author of "The Art and Science of Staff Fighting"