Pogo69
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ooooh... is it that time already...?
doubles:
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1) continue to practise
check!! I've been a good boy 
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2) make everything I do more consistent and sub-conscious
check!! getting better/smoother all the time...
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3) learn more antispin doubles stuff
check!! thanks, dave... 
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4) nail reverse flowers and put more work into antispin flowers
nope...
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5) continue exploring and expanding on the simple things, like one beat variations, btb etc
nope...
contact:
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6) start practising... anything...
barely at all...
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7) halo 360 smooth and consistent
nope...
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8) steves smooth and consistent
nope...
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9) fishtails, at all
tried.failed.on backburner...
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10) play with staff more in general without hand contact
nope...
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11) if I get through the above, try and link a few moves with the wrist weave or similar
nope...
all in all... the doubles are coming along nicely; helps a lot that I'm really enjoying it. the contact is virtually non-existent.
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Written by: Neon_Shaolin
1. Accomplish an exhaustive range of Dual Fishtail move and more...
2. Step out of my contact confort zone.
3. Do more with Doubles contact.
4. Perform, with competence, confidence and er... confidentiality...
5. Document experiments with staff stickies.
6. Find more 4-staff cross patterns.
7. Find a partner for two-person doubles routine.
8. Dedicate more time to learn contact moves in the OTHER direction.
9. More leg maneuvers
10. Spin on top of or at least near Ayers Rock.
1. Well, I've learnt maybe two or three fishtail-to-propellor variations but still having trouble with dual fowards!
2. Kinda - I'm freestyling alot more now. Aussie Style - 'There are no moves, just dance b*tch!'
3. See above but not as much. Focusing more on single.
4. Well, one out of three ain't bad. Seeing as one of those defeats the purpose of performing...
5. Me and what camera I can be arsed carrying around with me...In Sydney?
6. I need 4 same-size staves...
7. Always on the move. Bah!
8. Nope. Though I do normal minimal beat steve throws clockwise, yet FeiCha minimal beat steve throws anti-clockwise. Yet cannot interchange... hmmm
9. Exercising my sparrow-legs as we speak before even attempting these...
10. April dear... April...
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3) learn more antispin doubles stuff
check!! thanks, dave...
No problem Pat! Never Give Up! Never Surender!
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simta
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Written by: simta
1)be able to do everything i can smoothly without any awkwardness
2)learn head stuff and more groundwork
3)nail fishtail waistwraps (instead of it just being a crappy btb pass)
4)more horizontal to vertical transitions round the neck
5)learn more ohno and convict stuff (espec headspin into ohno matrix)
6)make all my doubles actually look smooth and nice
7)make some staffs to start juggling with
1) feeling more comfortable every spin
2)can do halo's over the head consistently, head steves still not happening, gettin more control over headspins. groundwork is better, have one lay down+get back up again move that can do quite consistently now
3)i wish
4)yep, happening quite consistently now
5)gettin there,pulling off the headspin into ohno matrix every so often
6)hmmmmmmm
7)not yet,soon i reckons
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08/02/08 07:32 AM
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Written by: burningoftheclavey
play even more
get a group together in perth
learn and work on more advanced moves and be able to do them continually
learn more doubles
learn more footwork and acrobatics type stuff.
hmm...not really been playing more. but soon!
and we've had a night in perth, found a juggling club in dundee, and together we'll make one..again when the warmer weather hits! 
working on keeping moves continuous but practise practise practise, and working on fishtail family.. which brings me nicely onto..
foot fishtails! which im working on. the tongue of my shoe is helping immensely at the moment but again with the practise.
no acrobatics yet but plans for two person performance using acro and each other.. should be starting on that soon. got the cartwheel pick up down though...
its early days i got months and months and months yet! 
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So... I started about a week ago. I figure this is a good way to hold myself accountable.
1. Get comfortable with the staff.
2. Practice a minimum of an hour a day 4 days a week.
3. Learn basic spins and contact... with good foot work.
4. Develop a style, so I am doing more than putting tricks next to each other (Didn't realize until it was too late that that is what I had done with poi... by which time I had gotten bored with it).
5. Find some people in LA to spin with.
6. Spin fire on the beach this summer.
7. Be able to do a 3 minute routine by June. 40% Spins, 30% Contact, 15% Throws, 15% Wraps.
8. Learn The Matrix and 3 variations.
9. Learn The Steve and 3 variations.
10. Build a fire staff (so I can put down the broom handle and towels I am using now).
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Pogo69
hippie@heart, all around slacker and big post-wh*re
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14/03/08 11:55 PM
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oooh... thanks azadondo... reminded me to check in again...
ooooh... is it that time already...?
doubles:
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1) continue to practise
still being a good boy...!! check...!!
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2) make everything I do more consistent and sub-conscious
check, again!! still getting more and more smooth... lots of the moves are linking seemlessly... in the right frame of mind (altered state of mind, don't you mean?), I can sometimes get right "in the zone"... flow and stuff, you know?
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3) learn more antispin doubles stuff
check!! thanks, again dave... continuing to learn more and more... linking more too... antispin and isolations... do need to do more work here, though...
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4) nail reverse flowers and put more work into antispin flowers
ye, reverse flowers all good... forwards totally smooth... mixed (one reverse, one forwards) all good... moving between each, and opposite direction flowers in front plane getting better too...
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5) continue exploring and expanding on the simple things, like one beat variations, btb etc
ye, I have started on this... linking into parallel btb... then switching to whatever the same thing is called when it's not parallel... ummm, also started with one beat variations, one arm on top of the other (dunno what it's called)... lots of experimentation and lots more to come (meg's and some other misc vids will help me here if I remember to watch them)...
contact:
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6) start practising... anything...
occasionally... the mood does take me more often now
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7) halo 360 smooth and consistent
getting multiple complete rotations of halo 360/conveyor belt thingie now... not always, but... when it's on... it just keeps going... cool...
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8) steves smooth and consistent
nah... although... I can do it periodically... all the freakin wristbands still getting in the way... staff gets caught, although... I was able one time I was trying to miss the wrist altogether and just land the staff above the elbow and move it around the back of the neck... *shakes head at myself for helping my contact by compensating for jewellery*
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9) fishtails, at all
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY...!!!! finally... after giving up, entirely, I can do em... need now to work on left hand and forwards... also wanna work on being able to do them with the little double staffs...
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10) play with staff more in general without hand contact
some... sometimes...
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11) if I get through the above, try and link a few moves with the wrist weave or similar
some... sometimes...
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Poje
The Elusive Bearded Fire Moose
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01/04/08 09:51 AM
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Written by :Poje
1 Learn doubles at least a BIT more
2 Steve variations....all of em...i need more
3 Think of/learn new conveyer variations
4 Practice more with my left hand (Left handed fihtails, you'll be mine by feb)
5 learn my moves better the oppisite way
6 make a titanium staff
7 develope a character
All rights reserved 
GUess it's time for an update....
1. Doubles practice has been negligible
2. Full steves have become much cleaner. Anti-prayer is coming along...
3. Do other direction conveyers count?
4.Left handed fishtails are getting better, still not there though.
5. This one has been going really well. My oppisit direction conveyors and steve are looking a LOT better. Also got other direction conveyors with a halo inbetween.
6. Nope, but made a new alum staff /shrug
7. Nope
I'm doing well. Fire drums may have be cross out a couple of these...
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LazyAngel
random guy
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01/04/08 01:40 PM
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Written by :LazyAngel
1) caged contact
2) continue trying to build up basic moves with style, rather than geeking out and trying to slap style in later
3) more doubles patterns with staight sides (explore squares and triangles more then head for hexagons)
4) get better at contact
5)learn how to do doubles contact without pausing mid flow
6)more cheese!
7)go to capoiera or yoga lessons, or preferably both (yeah right like I'm going to have time for that...)
8)improve footwork
9) practise throws
10) [disclaimer: in the event that i should manage to get through all the above] get started on 3 sticks
post BJC update
1) yup iffy caged luceros and an iffy semi-caged matrix
2)nope, been geeking out... oops
3)yep: got my squares and triangles, starting on the hexagons
4) well, I know more stuff to do.. can't do it that well though so I guess its a no for now
5)hahahahaha..... no
6)so so... needs work
7)yep, capoeira was going well until I got tendonitis
8)hmmmm nope I think
9)yep, (thanks to rob's workshop) but need to make some more suitable staffs for chucking about
10)nope, not even close
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Mynci
Macaque of all trades
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03/04/08 12:48 AM
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oooh how do you cage a matrix 
or is it just a matrix with your hands clasped above your head? otherwise surely your arms would get in the way.
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simta
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03/04/08 01:34 AM
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apparently its only caged as it comes around your front
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LazyAngel
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04/04/08 01:47 AM
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yep.. hence 'semi-caged'
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04/04/08 02:08 AM
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Written by :Mynci
or is it just a matrix with your hands clasped above your head?
have your hands clasped behind your head and you get convict matrix
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Mynci
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04/04/08 08:17 PM
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Written by :simta
apparently its only caged as it comes around your front
got it, So the same as sandys "oh no" or "tragedy" matrix really sweet 
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mcp
The Flying Water Muppet
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05/04/08 08:22 AM
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Written by :mcp
1) Get rid of job, travel world spinning staff.
2) make super tech duo doubles routine.
3) Now that my knee is better, get back to the acrobatics + staff.
4) Now that my knee is better, learn better movement, and how it works with staff. (Post-wiggling proto-dance)
5) Find some outrageous contact moves to learn, that I haven't thought of yet and learn them. (I couldn't have imagined myself doing a head roll steve at this time last year.)
6) Perform better.
7) Go to circus school, or devote 2/3 months entirely to training. (Whichever comes first)
8) Don't let my knee get injured again.
9) Find some more illusions, or visit Simian.
10) Make those two new routines I've been thinking about.
1) started and continuing!
2) started and continuing!
3) Can now cartwheel and bend down without pain. WIN!
4) started and continuing.
5) maybe, the anti-spin (not anti-turn) matrix is quite fun. But lots of things to work on, none really hard enough yet. Club contact might be.
6) Still and always working on that.
7) Silly bastl, might be down to three weeks...
8) Working on it, thanks to various physios.
9) Kinda... simian doesn't have illusions, but he does have kick ass hoop dance moves. Have found some more, but they haven't been mine.
10) Yup, got a deadline for one of them... So it better get made.
11) triple staff and club manipulation. <- new goal.
12) better club juggling. <- new goal.
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bluecat
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05/04/08 11:09 PM
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1) have solid 4 staff fountain
2) 10 catches, every time with 5 staffs, wall plane.
3) make a video with sebastian and meghan with lots of lego
4) learn lots of lego 
5) learn how to use the wierd thing i built, properly.
6) make teaching thing
7) learn all the 4 staff stuff in LAB2 with someone
8) hold another Uber
9) see strugz
10) beat him over the head with a stick.
11) work on hyperlightstaffs
12) loads more dual fishtails
13) other stuff
and the big obvious one - write the new routine i have been meaning to do for about a year.
1: not practising - i have 'mislaid 2 staffs' and haviong too much fun with two and three, and with (shhhh) poi.
2: same
3: partwin. but not yet.
4: getting there...
5: also getting there...
6: 22 pages and counting.
7: some for bastl
8: in planning.
9: like this is ever going to happen 
10: until 9 happens, i'll have to pay out on a contract for this, i think...
11: yep. MUCH nicer now 
12: absolutely. i LOVE fishies now.
13: oooh yes. liek you wouldn't b'leev. meg and sam for teh win.
14: absolute, 100% perfect win.
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-sandy-
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05/04/08 11:47 PM
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Written by :-sandy-
1. groundwork, groundwork, groundwork.
2. headroll steve (yoink )
3. do less techy repetition in performances.
4. get more gigs abroad
5. learn to juggle 3 staffs (and 4 and 5..... eventually)
6. write a glow routine
7. learn butterfly kicks properly with a staff
8. re-write my contact routine so it fits to the track better.
9. get to america to spin with noel again
10. learn to use capital letters at the beginning of a sentance
1. Sort of, i blagged a sketchy horizontal ultimate roll (steve down to matrix down to legs, cartwheel so staff goes through legs then back up the other side for second half of steve matrix) a couple of weeks ago but ive been hurting a lot each time i try. so only 6/10.
2. Nearly. can do a neck roll head roll but the steve exit isnt quite there yet.
3. Check, did loads of performances for kids in India so concentrated on dancey short routines.
4. I just turned one down, does that count?
5. Check, long way yet to go with it though.
6. Slack. But plans are underway.
7. Define properly.... probably not really though.
8. Well i didnt take a copy of the track away with me so ive been performing to different music, so no.
9. Sorry Noel, might have to be next year (unless i can somehow get to burning man hmmm....)
10. Mostly.
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Neon_Shaolin
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06/04/08 09:17 AM
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Noel's coming to PLAY...
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Noelski
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06/04/08 04:22 PM
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Written by :Noelski
Here are my goals,
1) Look less scared when I perform, and basically do it better...
2) quit my day job in June to be a full time juggly person
3) Clean up the other direction everything
4) figure out a way to some how make my cats do contact staff
5) Finish that gosh dang contact staff video...
6) Improve footwork (whatever the hell that means )
7) Practice more staff juggling and nail my three staff shower so I can juggle with Ima next time he comes..
8) Film the fire pheonix for video awesomeness
(richard P erno)
9) Make "a" solo routine I am somewhat happy .
10) Dance around and look more silly (although, I thought I was doing this well, but I am not sure)
Yeah thats enough..
1) I look less scared but now I have more of that tough look going, the one when it looks like your smelling something funny... 
2) Day job over in less than two months...ohh man..well as long as I don't loose it before FireDrums when many spinner s will be in my house 
3) been snes'n steve'n the other way, almost caught up..my other way matrix is still kinda weak.
4) Cats aren't doing contact, but one keeps peeing all over the floor...sucks.
5) Video done... www.contactarts.com, hope the site is up soon
6) Footwork is better, less stumbling around 
7) Practiced today, I still suck, but I can do a 3 ball box solid, finally...
8) Fire Pheonix, haven't seen him...
9) Solo Routine? Did I say that...dang, not much yet.
10) I make myself laugh? Getting funnier...
See you at PLAY dave? Sandy?
Ohh, yeah come to burning man Sandy!
But be careful if you come, its clothing optional place...so bring sun tan lotion 
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07/04/08 12:13 AM
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Noel! Damn right you'll see me there buddy.
haha i can see the youtube video now... lobster contact!
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Poje
The Elusive Bearded Fire Moose
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08/04/08 04:14 AM
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Ya Sandy, go to BurningMan
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08/04/08 06:49 AM
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Just so you guys know - the 'clothing optional' thing is pretty much a blessing for Sandy....
Don't say I didn't warn ya
Yes I will be at PLAY...
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simta
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09/04/08 09:28 PM
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Poje - come to play
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The Elusive Bearded Fire Moose
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10/04/08 02:42 AM
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Ohhhh i want to, BM this year, play next maybe.....
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Pogo69
hippie@heart, all around slacker and big post-wh*re
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07/05/08 12:26 PM
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time for another update, methinks...
doubles:
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1) continue to practise
yup yup... I've built a couple pairs of practice doubles with dowel, tape and some rubber stoppers; leave them lying around the place so I can play with ideas, whenever...
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2) make everything I do more consistent and sub-conscious
continues to improve; most of the basics are pretty seamless now and I can freespin with most of what I know, improvisationally, in a manner that is less a bag of tricks and more creating pretty patterns, all the time...
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3) learn more antispin doubles stuff
yup yup... the search continues... I've been putting a bit of time into playing with combinations of simple antispin/isolation stuff... got a lot of it to the point where I'm starting to be able to use the parts to create a brand new whole.
have also started to play with square shapes; staffs alternately parallel and perpendicular to the ground; basically with the staffs creating an L... interesting possibilities, I think...
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4) nail reverse flowers and put more work into antispin flowers
still continuing to improve... the muscle memory is there and I can move between forwards/reverse/opposite ok... but I still can't do a proper straight armed antispin flower...
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5) continue exploring and expanding on the simple things, like one beat variations, btb etc
Written by : my previous comment
ye, I have started on this... linking into parallel btb... then switching to whatever the same thing is called when it's not parallel... ummm, also started with one beat variations, one arm on top of the other (dunno what it's called)... lots of experimentation and lots more to come (meg's and some other misc vids will help me here if I remember to watch them)...
still playing with these, but not so much as other stuff... linking to the btb stuff a lot better...
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6) start practising... anything...
again, every now and then... I don't seem to be motivated towards contact all that much, mostly because I've not seen much contact that takes staff play where I want to take it; for me it's primarily all about the pretty patterns, with coordinated body movement being secondary, and I've not seen a lot of contact that demonstrates that... although, seb's fishtails vid is a BIG step in that direction.
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7) halo 360 smooth and consistent
ye, can pretty much keep this going whenever now... the occasional slip, but I can usually turn that into something too... odd how something that once seemed impossible, turns into something that you can feel every step along the way
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8) steves smooth and consistent
most of the time, ye... I haven't played with any variations yet, but the basic (what I think is officially called a half-) steve is down... in fact, I can do em sitting down some of the time...
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9) fishtails, at all
ye... right hand with a contact staff is solid... left hand is getting there... keep trying occasionally with the lil doubles, but while I can do the motion, I have no control over them
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10) play with staff more in general without hand contact
nah, not really
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11) if I get through the above, try and link a few moves with the wrist weave or similar
again... some... sometimes...
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ArthurBrown
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Reged: 30/05/06
Loc: Yorkshire
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08/05/08 04:04 AM
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Been a long time posting so.....
New goals:
1) Find more staff on staff contact tricks.
2) Buy/ Make 3 contact staffs the perfect length for triple contact.
3) Find some triple contact tricks.
4) Busk more.
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