People underestimate the deadliness of the simple staff. It’s a solid hunk of hardwood. In a medieval reenactment group my friend was a part of, some people said the staves should require two hits to take out an opponent because they’re so weak. So they set up a steel helmet as a test, hit it once and caved it in completely. That put a stop to all that talk.
But yes a skilled quarterstaff practitioner should absolutely place their hands much farther apart.
People underestimate the deadliness of the simple staff. It’s a solid hunk of hardwood. In a medieval reenactment group my friend was a part of, some people said the staves should require two hits to take out an opponent because they’re so weak. So they set up a steel helmet as a test, hit it once and caved it in completely. That put a stop to all that talk.
But yes a skilled quarterstaff practitioner should absolutely place their hands much farther apart.
Well, as Archimedes already said:
People underestimate the deadliness of absolutely everything, except for the things where we grossly overestimate it.