I'm the best spinner in the world 3 years ago.

I was just reminising about my first EJC two years ago... and I remember the coolest kid there was Glass doing a very bad buzzsaw isolation. Sometimes he 'kinda got it' and sometimes he didn't. And he also did an 'amazing' butterfly variation where he put the right poi over his left shoulder. We were all blown away. Stuff most of us can do in our sleep nowadays.

Even the 'amazing' videos from two years ago are getting dated.

We've been spending so much time trying to develop our poi moves yet, if we want to get relatively better, all we really need is a time machine.

i think i'd just learnt a weave by then.
and was taking a month over backwards weave....

I hadn't even heard of poi then...in fact I haven't even been doing it a year yet! Glasto is my anniversary so I hope my poi buy me a nice dinner to celebrate, maybe even candles and a bottle of cheap red plonk

makes you wonder what people are gonna be doing with poi in a couple of years time really?

i reckon itll be suitibly insane

seems like the poi community only started a few years ago... as if no one has been doing it for longer than the existence of this site lol maybe theirs the oldschool guys with poi who are to outdated to use the interent to communicate with us but.. their has to be some odschool poi spinners that could do stuff we could never imagine lol

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effective communication techniques is the key
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I'm mo' oldskool, yo.

(hey do a search, this been my only poi thread post in 1 years hehe STAFF ROCKS!)

Yeah, I also remember when Glass used to be good

so what oldskoolery are you bringing to this side of the pond for summer, nyc boyo?

gonna teach that tall blonde dude a lesson right?

i look forward to the (next to mr heart) OLD SKOOL workshops at ejc. mighrt even stand there balancing a poi on my freshly shaven bonce.

love
R

Good point well made but surely we can't be arrogant enough to think we're all on the brink of the wave here at HOP?

no.

tho honestly i would have to say nearly all the best (imo) spinners i have met are on hop.

whether regularly or not.

only a very few truly outstanding spinners that i have met have NO connection with hop.

R

S'true - I'm better than everyone and I'm never on HoP.
I also never spin properly infront of other people to hide this fact

Naw... good point Sheep. But still... It's kinda funny. I mean at least YOU all sucked three years ago.

Some of us still do.

I used to tie all sorts of [censored] to bits of string and spin 'em as a kid. Only found out about Poi (and HoP especially) just over a year ago. Still, it is funny thinking about the trouble i had doing the most basic of things.

*worships ICoN's signature*

i've said this many times. 90% of the truly tremendous spinners i've met don't post here on hop. in fact i've never seen what i would consider a _world class_ spinner on hop linked videos or on the 2 COL vids i've seen. you gotta figure, as all of us practice, there's people out there that practice just as hard or harder, but for 15+ years longer. most of them hide their stuff from the spinner community, much less post them on the net. (heck even i don't reveal a 5th of my best stuff, a magician's gotta have his secrets) hoppers are really lucky to have people like glass, coleman, bluecat, bender, and others (you know who you are) that have a good grasp on movement fundamentals posting here and selflessly helping people. the progression that the newbies are able to undergo as a result cannot be underestimated, and an enourmous gift is here, whether it is known and appreciated or not. i DID teach myself the 5 beat, and everything past it to the 9-11's. and it took me 6 years to get that high. now a newbie can learn them before he can even do the bfly!

ha ha actually i just remembered the day that the 5 beat finally showed up on hop. i was still perusing the social boards at that point flirting with cassandra and cracking jokes with superman, avoiding the poi moves section cause it was such an insurmountable task to catch the boards up to what is out there. in fact, seeing everybody's reaction to "this insane new move" is what moved me to pity the hoppers and start posting some fun-ner moves for folks here in the poi moves section. i remember posting some harder stuff like parallel weaves and BTL weaves and just confusing people. oh wait i still do that
oh yeah, i remember somebody posting a really cool move, bfly between the shouder blades like you were clasping your hands together behind your back, one elbow up the other down. that was the other straw that brought me here to the poi moves section too. hmmm... wonder who posted that move? musta been coleman...

a decent reminde that although HoP is the biggest community of firetwirlers, still the brightest star in the sky is still only one amongst the galaxies.
star trek rocks.
:bows at a rash e:

{bows back and pokes his eye on bender's long, green, scraggly, uncut toenail sticking out of his cast like a spear}
AAAAAAAAHHAAHHOOOOOWCH!!!!!!!!!!
{runs out of the room arms flailing}

hugs and reiki, oh flat-butted one

Arashi's post makes me so sad.

I've given so much to my local poi community. I teach endlessly and strain to learn solely so that I can give back. The burningman and international firespinning community has been so generous both with soul and spirit I will always be indebted to it.

I really don't understand withholding or hiding moves.

I'm also not sure how I feel about the concept of supersecret firespinners who are a million times better than anyone and never perform and no one has ever seen them.