Speed->Length->Weight->Style

I lit up to a slowish song and felt like a fish out of water. Having to slow down to keep the beat of the music was next to impossible with short chains. I kept loosing momentum at the top of my arc and even choked for a second on a wrap that was far too slow. (Kutos to Adam for the leather welding sleeve advice, saved my arm dude!) My short, light poi simply refused to slow down in the style I was used to spinning. Yeah, I could have gone off the beat but I like to play with the music when I spin. Later I spun with faster music much more in resonance with the length and weight of my poi. HUGE difference. I had a blast.

Yeah, yeah... I should learn how to lengthen and shorten my chains on the fly (on my list of things to do after: Behind the back weave and butterfly alternating arm wraps.)

The real moral of the story for ME was: If you don't feel the music, don't light up.

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We are all in the cosmic movie. That means the day you die you watch your whole life repeating for eternity. So you'd better have some good things happen in there and have a fitting climax. --Jim Morrison

Most Memerable crowd saying "Hey look that dude's gonna set himself on fire again!"

maybe it doesnt feel that way when you are doing it but if you watch other people its like the fire has a musical pattern all of its own.

For fast music you can always go on every other beat...

It's ones inbetween that are annoying! lol

I love short poi lost of super fast windmills and arm twists and stuff... trouble is, if you make them relly really short (like 25-30cm), you stop being able to do the 5bt weave...