Fubar,
The white guy is a Tae Kwon Do practitioner and TKD as well as the majority of karate in America have flashy staff forms like this that invole tons of spinning and fighting with the staff solely from the center (which is so freaking stupid). Usually you'll see them with flashy-looking staffs that weigh less and then they can spin them faster.
The asian guy does Wushu, which while it is also based on perfermance, there is at least a basis on a fighting art. Movements are essentially taken from traditional kung fu and extended out and altered to make them fancier. IMO, there are valid techniques in what he did, but I think that whipping the staff aound like that for the entire fightwould get realyl tiring and, frankly, would expose the legs.
You won't find this sort of thing in Wing Chun. I never studied the Wing Chun staff, but it's my understanding that it is very straight forward.
Here's a popular wing chun staff form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh9GeUs2krs
For reference, here's a staff set from another southern style (Hung Gar): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xb6xwd98fM
Here's a northern style (Long Fist) staff set: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frrU54_HgjE
You will find some twirling (figure 8) and swide swings in Kung Fu staff forms, but that isn't the sole part of the form, and Kung Fu guys understand that it's a long-range weapon (really, that's something that always baffled me about most Korean and Japanese styles).
Originally Posted by bawang
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You don't see that in Karate. Even the traditional guys using the legit stuff - it's all quarter as you say, so with a 6 ft staff, they're getting maybe 2 ft extensions on their technique. TCMA on the other hand is getting most if not all of the benefit of that 6 ft weapon.
