Grandmaster Wong demonstrating the Taiji Staff

Like other Taiji weapons, the Taiji staff is derived from the Shaolin staff. In the Shaolin staff, there are staff sets with the left-hand as the front-holding hand where the staff is used like a spear, like the Flowing Water Staff, and also there are sets with the right-hand as front-holding where staff techniques are more prominent, like the Ng Long Pat Kua Staff.

The Taiji Staff here has the right-hand as front-holding. This is in line with the background of kungfu history. In earlier times, spears were commonly used, but in later times staffs were more popular. Taijiquan developed much later than Shaolin Kungfu.