Gripping the Staff
From Scholar Victoria
There are a number of ways to grip the staff, however we’ll start with the basics.
Grip the staff in the right hand at one end in the same way you’d hold a longsword. Now place the left hand a third or so of the way up the staff, thumb pointing in the same direction as the right. This is the orthodox grip.
If we release our front hand and turn it the other way so that the thumbs face toward each other, this is a reversed lead hand grip. The two grips can be shown in the foreground of the plate from Meyer, below, the orthodox on the right, the reverse on the left.
Very occasionally we also turn the rear hand so the thumb faces backward also.
