swap_horiz Quarterstaff Alternatives

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Cherokee stickball

Cherokee stickball is a Southeastern Indigenous ball game played with two sticks, notable for James Mooney's 1890 study...

Historic Indigenous Team Stick

7.9 Good

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Choctaw stickball

Choctaw stickball is an Indigenous field sport using paired sticks and a woven ball, notable for a 1729 Jesuit reference...

Historic Indigenous Team Stick

7.7 Good

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Bojutsu

Bojutsu is the Japanese and Okinawan martial art of the bo staff, notable for the rokushakubo, a standard staff about si...

Combat Japanese Stick Staff

7.7 Good

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Naginata

Naginata is a Japanese martial sport using a curved-blade polearm, notable for modern world championships that began in...

Combat Japanese Stick Polearm

7.6 Good

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Krabi-krabong

Krabi-krabong is a Thai weapon martial art whose name means sword-staff, notable for paired swords, shields, staffs and...

Combat Weapon Stick Thai

7.5 Good

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Jogo do Pau

Jogo do Pau is a Portuguese and Galician staff-fighting art from Minho and Tras-os-Montes, notable for a national associ...

Combat Stick Portuguese Staff

7.2 Good

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Canne de combat

Canne de combat is a French cane-fighting sport standardized by Maurice Sarry in the 1970s, notable for fencing-mask bou...

Combat French Stick Cane

7.1 Good

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Tahtib

Tahtib is an Egyptian stick-fighting art and folk dance, notable for Old Kingdom reliefs around 2500 BC and modern pract...

Combat Stick Egyptian Staff

7.1 Good

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Juego del Palo Canario

Juego del Palo Canario is a Canary Islands stick-fighting sport traced to Guanche traditions, notable for palo chico, pa...

Combat Stick Staff Canary

6.9 Fair

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Lathi khela

Lathi khela is a Bengali stick-fighting martial art of Bangladesh and West Bengal, notable for bamboo lathis often measu...

Combat Stick Staff Bengali

6.6 Fair

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Hickory golf

Hickory golf is golf played with hickory-shafted clubs, notable for preserving pre-1935 equipment styles used before ste...

Historic Stick Golf Club

6.5 Fair

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Palant

Palant is a Polish bat-and-ball game recorded from the mid-1500s, using a wooden bat and rubber ball on a 60-by-25 m fie...

Polish Historic Team Stick

6.4 Fair

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Donga stick fighting

Donga stick fighting is a Suri ceremonial duel in southwestern Ethiopia, notable as a harvest-season rite of passage for...

Combat Stick Ethiopian Martial

6.2 Fair

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Pall mall

Pall mall is an early modern mallet-and-ball game, notable as a croquet precursor played in 17th-century London and nami...

Historic Ball Stick Lawn

6.0 Fair

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Jeu de mail

Jeu de mail is a French ground-billiards game with mallet and ball, notable as a croquet ancestor popular in France by t...

French Historic Ball Stick

5.9 Mediocre

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Tip-cat

Tip-cat is a European folk game in which a player flips and strikes a short wooden cat, notable as an English relative o...

Outdoor Historic Traditional Stick

5.8 Mediocre

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Colf

Colf is a medieval Low Countries stick-and-ball game, notable as a golf precursor named in a 1261 Dutch text as played w...

Historic Stick Dutch Golf

5.7 Mediocre

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Kolf

Kolf is a Dutch club-and-ball game, played indoors on narrow courts; records show about 350 courses in the Netherlands i...

Historic Stick Dutch Indoor

5.7 Mediocre

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Roque

Roque is an American hard-court croquet variant, notable as the croquet replacement at the 1904 Saint Louis Olympics, wh...

Historic Stick Hardcourt Mallet

5.3 Mediocre

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Trucco

Trucco is an Italian and English lawn billiards game using balls, cues and a ring target; it was popular from the 17th c...

Italian Historic Stick Lawn

5.2 Mediocre