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31/01/07 12:48 AM
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So you wanna learn to spin staff?
1) get a staff to practise with. Possibly you aready have one. Any bit of metal or wooden tube will do, it should be approximately your chin height, bigger or smaller doesn't have much of a difference. Weighting doesn't really matter at this point.
For learning contact however, the staff you use IS important. But we're not doing that right now so it's okay.
This is the "Figure of eight" (fo8 for short) it goes from one side of your body to the other, it's very important that you learn this both ways in both hands. Keep your grip quite light, and feel the momentum of the staff, rather than forcing it around.
These are the two BASIC's of spinning staff. After you have done these a bit, you can hop about in the rest of this tutorial if you like. Everything else is some form of passing figure of eights, or turning or doing one of the two behind the back, or in combination.
Or the Other way around!
At this point, you can skip around in the following sections, learning what you like, in whatever order. This is not an ordering of difficulty, or a heirarchy, it's just a list. Learn what you like.
Once you've got say, forwards f08 in your right, reverse in your left, you can move on to something like this:
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31/01/07 02:47 AM
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somebody PLEASE sticky this to the top of the page?
*Bows down to meg. Again*
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31/01/07 03:59 AM
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Agreed. Thankyou Meg
I might even have a go... (I should probably get a staff first )
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31/01/07 04:20 AM
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for someone that scares off newbies........
you certanly do alot for them
nice one meg
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31/01/07 04:23 AM
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31/01/07 04:27 AM
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Oooh! I LOVE a woman in uniform!
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you are so straight!
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no thread is safe..............
not one
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31/01/07 05:01 AM
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I'll drag it back on track it then...
This'd be really good for me to unlearn everything I know to get a new perspective on the whole process of learning...
Especially being someone who can do a Jesus but not an Angel Roll...
Cheers Meggy Moggy Owly...
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31/01/07 11:11 AM
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now i have to wait for the weather to warm up, cause i am a wimp and have a hard time with staff wearing gloves
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Thanks Meg
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damn fine work from meg again can you do an intermediate one for me
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02/02/07 12:17 AM
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Thanks very much.
I wanted to learn the staff, but lacked tutorials of any kind. I had some poi and began spinning those... but staff twirling is what interests me. I'll pick up my bamboo stick and get to work on all this!!!
Thanks Meg
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Heh, mastered these pretty quickly! Time to buy myself a staff DvD methinks.
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Written by: mcp
I am both bad cop and good cop.
carrot and the stick of fearsome megness
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02/02/07 09:26 PM
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Written by: McAlpine
Heh, mastered these pretty quickly! Time to buy myself a staff DvD methinks.
wait a bit dude - trust me
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ditto...
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a staff what??? is there such an item worthy of the name?
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03/02/07 02:06 AM
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not yet but from what i understand there will soon be more than one available.
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03/02/07 07:11 AM
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So I shouldn't buy the Staff DvD from HoP? Alright, you're the experts, I'll wait around a little while and keep surfing the internet and practicing.
I'm gonna miss finger twirling when I get a bigger staff... it adds so many more beats. :-( I'm sure there is a less newbish way to do that though...
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11/02/07 01:46 AM
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Whoo hoo, Fabulous, Just got my first staff (my poi are takin a back seat) and all enthused to learn new things. Thanks for all the details, time to get to practising
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22/02/07 10:39 AM
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This is fantastic! *bows down to teh awesomeness*
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Up for introduce more basic staff tutorials.
I did some short videos from basics spinning movements, transferts, throws and more to come. There is 3 languages avaliable on you tube:
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I downloaded pretty much everything that I could get my grubby little hands on, and I've started organizing it into groups that I can learn from. I really like the basicness of Imakokode's Tutorials, and I just tried my first ones tonight.
I've noticed a few problems that might not be affecting others. For one, I'm 6'4, and trying this in a basement. Bad idea, considering the height (or lack thereof) of the ceiling. In addition, it seems that my "girth" is causing my pathing to be a bit wider than I would like. Guess this is good motivation to keep me wanting to slim down.
But I tried the first four moves in the first video - man, it took me a bit to figure out the mechanics of the extra wrist beat, but once I got it, it was like a shot to the head. I can DO this!
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