Firetoys fibreglass contact staff

has anyone tried / got any opinions on these?

http://www.firetoys.co.uk/juggling/Firetoys_Firbre_Pro_contact_Staff.html

cheers

Ezra / Quiet

Damn, beat us to it. Obviously they chose fibreglass because like us, they wanted to copy mystek. Shame they hideously overpriced it.

They still haven't figured out that centre weighting is not a good thing for contact staffs. What staffers they supposedly found to test their stuff don't know their stuff.

Ok, I'm not a great contact staffer, but the best staff I ever used for contact was made by tePOOKa. And, you can get a pair of them for less than that one staff.

Trust in Meg, She knows her stuff!!

(PS, Sorry about the shameless plug )

k, you've convinced me

bouncy staves makes my ordinary contact skillz more....ordinary.
they make my steves look like bills (which is bad)

I too dislike bouncy staves for contact. I've got a LED staff that literally sometimes bounces off my shoulders when i try to do a halo and other moves (might be cool to some, but it's not what I'm looking for).

if you want fibreglass, go get a mystek from henries, cos they are SEXY.

Just like yooooooooooo.

They are dead sexy, but crap (in my opinion) for contact. Why the preference for fiberglass Meg?

I think it's sexy? It sounds totally futuristic, like adding kewl letters on the sinclair ZX to make it more sexy.

It's not metal, or wood, which makes it enigmatic and mysterious.

I mean you could possibly use delrin or something, but I mean really, with a name like that, will it really catch on?

Ohhhh, don't say their crap, I really want one! They have cool graphics on the website and everything!

Oh well, I guess I'll have to get a video camera for christmas instead... Muhahahahahahaahahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa *cough*

im all about metal and wood

tech should stay where it belongs, and in teh hands of geeks, not in teh hands of jugglers, clowns noses have not changed in a long time why should staffs


im with knox, now if you coated your staff in nasty boy racer carbon fiber, then it would be wicks

don't get me wrong...they're great staffs, just not brilliant for contact...

but enigmatic...oooh yes they are...

What about fibre-glass for short throwing stick?
Seems to say it's quite heavy....
Bending should no longer be a problem.
Would it snap under high throws?

meg are the fibergalss ones they use, the same a hops ones?

cos i think they are no?

ifthats the case then yes you are totly justified, and i back you in what you say

else NO MEG YOU ARE WRONG!

i think they should be fine for short stick, as for shiots you would use a smaller roll of wick, not 4inch?

No I haven't. I've tried loads of fully cored staffs and hated every one. I tried their contact staff and couldn't stand it, it went too fast, it was too heavy, and it was too short. They still seem to think that 1.4 is the largest any staff should need to be, and they told me so. As well as charging high prices for them.

But that's my opinion, so feel free to flame me for it.

46 quid !?!? for a 1.2 with 65mm wicks? Jeez.

I'd want a titanium staff and sexual favours for that much mulla

Just my opinion however...

Also I was under the impression from the people I've talked to that the ideal characteristics of a contact staff were:

1. Good weighting on the ends to provide momentum.
2. Slightly bendy/springy, but not bouncy, to provide momentum.
3. slightly thicker to provide more surface area to "grip" the body.

I'm not sure a fully cored staff, with 65mm wicks and made of fibreglass satisfies any of those.

However, everone likes their staffs made differently so I'm sure it'll suit someone

The firetoys fibre staff is the first fibre glass staff i've seen for under 65 quid, presumably because fibreglass isn't cheap.

Other fibre staffs are:

The mystec, has fibreglass all the way through but less of it, lighter than the firetoys one, more flexy and thinner and costs 80 quid (it does split into 3 parts but that does not make it spin better)

The concentrate staff has more weight in the middle than on the outside (it only has fibreglass in the middle section), has virtually no wick on it and costs 65 quid.

The firetoys one is loaded with tough wick and feels great. It is currently the most affordable fibre staff by 20 quid and is virtually indestructible. It completely satisfies all 3 of your criteria for a good staff so i recommend you dig someone out who owns one so you can make a more informed review.

M

Cool, would love to try it.