Mand
Keeper of the Spitfire
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Reged: 24/10/03
Loc: Calgary Canada
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Wrap the ends of the socks round your hands, until you have the length you want.
Et voila!
Spin to your heart content!
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Psi
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07/07/04 10:25 AM
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Hmm, i prefer knots .. cos then you can do throws.. but i always used to just wrap them round my hands 
Mike
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Dunc
PLAY to your heart's content
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07/07/04 06:06 PM
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I've never wrapped round my hand cuz yeah like Mike says you can't do throws but it's a goot place to start.
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FireTom
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04/03/06 07:34 PM
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 Yes - I admitit: after making jokes of all the "french socks" I'm becoming a "sockie" too...
It's just sooooooooooooooooo nice to play with them...
 I love my socks
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_Clare_
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05/03/06 10:43 AM
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I'm slightly over my sock addiction now... have moved on to flags and cones... but socks still rock for wibbles
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Ange_GSC
HOP's glowstick ambassador!!
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Loc: Bay Area, California
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06/03/06 10:25 AM
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I've been putting off sock poi for ages as well. I've recently met some poists here who can do some pretty impressive tangly stuff and I'm really interested, its about time I picked up a pair.
Thanks for the input!
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^When Linz pulls an all nighter before Arabic class^
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Richee
Concentrator, HOP Librarian
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06/03/06 10:30 AM
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How cones look like?
:R
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Unbounded
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07/03/06 03:36 PM
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Personally ive never really seen any joy in sock poi. I tried it once then i just grabbed some shoelaces and glowsticks.. when i got better i made a really nice set that i occasionaly rave with. The problem with glowsticks is .. it doesnt have as much of a danger factor as fire .. and girls usually think glowstick ravers much less cool than people spinning fire. So i started going to the beach and spinning fire and its been quite fun! I mean glowstick or sock spinnning is fun and all (glowsticks at least have a light trail) but fire really gives that extra booost to the trance/adreneline rush!
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alien_oddity
junglistic man
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08/03/06 04:14 AM
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socks i've had mine since before xmass and i love them to bits.............plus it was a good use of my redundant glowballz.
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shen shui
no excuses. no apologies.
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Loc: aotearoa
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08/03/06 09:50 AM
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its such a shame that general punters are "oooed" and "aaahed" by fire and less so by glow/sox/tails/whatever..
they just dont seem to appreciate sox (or whatever) as much as spinners-in-the-know do..
i was in this parade late last year (think it was a xmas parade :P), and i started off just spinning my sox, thinking, yeah i'll give them some wowisms.. but noone cared.. until i pulled out my fire and everybody had thought-bubbles above their heads with (you guessed it) wow flashing in neon lights...
fire shmyre!
but maybe this is just because they're so popular. if everybody disliked fire, im sure id like it more...!
*artistic license ensures no liability for exagerated tales of wowness*
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Suibom
I looked in a mirror and noticed I was infinitely twisted.
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08/03/06 10:44 AM
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I agree with ya fully shen..
I love spinning socks... didn't really think I'd care so much for fire.
But lately, I've been falling more and more in love with fire... with the organic flames and how they dance in isolation...
socks is where it's at tho!
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Ahnold discussing poi - "It is naht a toober!"
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Mint Sauce
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08/03/06 11:38 PM
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Written by: Unbounded
Personally ive never really seen any joy in sock poi. I tried it once then i just grabbed some shoelaces and glowsticks.. when i got better i made a really nice set that i occasionaly rave with. The problem with glowsticks is .. it doesnt have as much of a danger factor as fire .. and girls usually think glowstick ravers much less cool than people spinning fire. So i started going to the beach and spinning fire and its been quite fun! I mean glowstick or sock spinnning is fun and all (glowsticks at least have a light trail) but fire really gives that extra booost to the trance/adreneline rush!
i love newbs the more you do poi the les ans less you will find you use fire
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mr squirrel
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09/03/06 02:30 AM
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Written by: CrazyHippyChick
tails are soooooooooo much prettier than sox!!!
erm, while they are being spun or sitting on a shelf?
Written by: Vixen
yeah but my socks just stretch loadz!!!! damn topshop! hahaha
if you spin them fast, they will do - but the higher degree of control you have, the less they stretch.
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Unbounded
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09/03/06 01:01 PM
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Written by: Mint Sauce
Written by: Unbounded
Personally ive never really seen any joy in sock poi. I tried it once then i just grabbed some shoelaces and glowsticks.. when i got better i made a really nice set that i occasionaly rave with. The problem with glowsticks is .. it doesnt have as much of a danger factor as fire .. and girls usually think glowstick ravers much less cool than people spinning fire. So i started going to the beach and spinning fire and its been quite fun! I mean glowstick or sock spinnning is fun and all (glowsticks at least have a light trail) but fire really gives that extra booost to the trance/adreneline rush!
i love newbs the more you do poi the les ans less you will find you use fire
Ive been raving with glowsticks and strings for years and decided that fire would be fun to try. Also people are much more amused by fire than neon lights.
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EpsilonKias
Note to self... Fur + Fire = Hurt.
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Loc: Bloomfield Indiana. USA
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10/03/06 07:05 AM
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No offence. But it's not "raving" with glowsticks. It's glowsticking (Or stringing if you are doing poi with the lights)
Anyways. I've been using socks for a while. First to help me get used to the weight of fire poi, then to help me with tangles that I cannot do with glowsticks.
They work extremely well for all sorts of stuff and damn... Good throws are abound after you knot the ends.
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shen shui
no excuses. no apologies.
Member #15831
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10/03/06 11:35 AM
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or glowsocking?
having a weighted handle opens up many possibilities..
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dawn2dusk
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15/03/06 03:41 AM
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>_> I converted to socks just now... I didn' t love them and I didn' t love tails, too I liked those you call cones (or something similar : /): cords and a weight. Nothing easier ... only cords were starting to cut off my fingers coz I used to wrap them around...
My poi-friends went on to tell me: sooooocks... sooooocks.... what are ya doing with that silly stuff? And I continued not to listen... then there was a contest where I used very complicate poi with double cords and silk tails, and that was a torture... they made me sick, they weren' t comfortable. So I finally decided to make my own socks (even if I already had some, but I had never cared about making them or take care of them or weight them rightly). So now I have them. Absolutely PINK (but I wish I had UV *__* :Q______)
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_Clare_
Coalition of the wiggling...
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15/03/06 05:15 AM
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Hey Richee, sorrys, just saw your question...
Cones are like these:
(lovely Drew-designed ones, modelled by the effortlessly lovely Olivier)
[image]http://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9608&password=&sort=1&size=medium&cat=500&page=2[/image]
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_Clare_
Coalition of the wiggling...
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15/03/06 05:16 AM
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Meh?!
Why didn't that work?
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Ange_GSC
HOP's glowstick ambassador!!
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Reged: 16/08/05
Loc: Bay Area, California
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15/03/06 05:26 AM
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I'm currently trying to learn to do those crazy sock poi hyperloops that never seem to end, its not so easy but I got one to last for 10 seconds once.
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^When Linz pulls an all nighter before Arabic class^
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dawn2dusk
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15/03/06 08:14 AM
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>_> then cones and socks are the same? I thought cones were these
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_Clare_
Coalition of the wiggling...
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15/03/06 09:23 AM
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Ohhh... now I'm confused.
That link is to traditional Maori poi, neither socks or cones. 
The cones I'm talking about are called socks in the HoP shop...
But when I was talking about socks, I meant knee length (stripey  ) socks with rice in the end. Cones are the strips of material sewn together, so they don't have any bounce or reverse spin floppiness (ahem, or that twisty thing that happens when you stall knee-length sock poi).
Lol, we're probably all talking about the same thing under a different name.
Jeez. That's not like HoP. Usually things are so clear
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