Cummon staffers lets c those signature moves!!!

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Bender, it would appear that we do indeed both inhabit the same planet... Rrr matey, could be the same Island even. Ye just be a lot closer to EC ye lucky scalywag...

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Oh, yes please do! mike@hallock.net

And I also have a server with lots o space on it if you need to host movies...

EC? what is this EC you speak ok, hu-man!
yeah mate it's like the whole year is gunna be one llooooong wait until the biggest outdoors psytrance party Ozland's ever seeen!
Posford/shpongle is confirmed to be on at sunrise!! this is gunna be a meeeesssss!

Fishtails on the back of neck...teehee....and yes u can do it!

call me the fool (!) but it seems to me that the obvious progression from beginning spinning is to build up speed and contact spin, but has anyone moved off into a completely different kind of motion - its hard to explain, but instead of contact spinning or excelling in throws, is anyone yet to become the ultimate spinny one?

all you have to do is realise the truth...
...there is no staff

theres also wushu martial arts types moves. its hard to find nice free videos this link has two nice moves on there.

http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/cannat01ot/cannat01ot_01.html

I have a friend who break dances, hes started to combine freezes with staff, that looks mental when your going for it and then just pop into some mad freeze! The nxt step being to combine power moves such as windmills etc and staff (i'd like to see that!) alternitivley combining various disaplines, the obvious beinig martial arts handleing the staff, acrobatics in movement or similar,... hmmm perhaps doing staff and one poi. or maybe adding a bit of spice by soaking ur clothes in fuel, get some fear going!! hahahaha

oh, i started using my feet to spin while on my back, hands supporting myself.... quite fun (bare feet help)

Acrobatics, yes. I figured out bender's one handed cartwheels and I'm working on his sideways arial now. They are sweet. Also rolls and forward flips, which I am still too afraid to try.

Spinning on your back, just got into this too! Found an easy way to roll onto my back from my knees while spinning the staff horizontally. I started playing with between the leg passes and such this weekend but I hadn't thought of barefoot spinning... Plus I couldnt do it a whole lot... I was on a beach and sand got into everything...

learn slowly slow over softly soft.
being aware of the mental barriers is the first step in overcoming them.
be safe,
try not to use the word 'poonani' too often in polite conversation.
these are things i have learnt iwf staffcrobatix.

yikes!!!

don't know the lingo, don't know the language (being new and dutch), but I'll check out that "naming staff moves" thread next.
wow! exellent site bender!!! makes me finally wanna start my own site now! but first so much to learn. I joined circus school recently to integrate acro with poi or staff, and your site helped speed that process. and I am a fast learner.

as far as signature moves go: as I said, I'm only new to the staff, but just as with poi; people always seem to want to go bigger, better, faster and higher. personally I like the slow stuff with the occasional high impuls rush (just like love making actually).

one of the thing I seem to do more than others (I've been commented on it) is stops (in staff moves, not love making ). say the staff version of body-wraps.
my favorite here is (single staff): coming out of figure 8, in front of body switch hands, make 360 turn with body keeping staff there(switching hands).. when back at start position: stop staff with left hand swinging it back in the other direction, mirror-imaging the move. and again, and again... (told you I didn't speak the lingo )

but now I need to get out of here, try some of the new stuff I just saw...
hasta la pasta!

eric pOpsteric.

Well, one move that gets my audience goin for staff is when I toss the staff up high horizontally, sit down quick, catch the staff while sitting and keep it spinnin horizontal. From the i'd lay back, bring my knees to my chest, put the staff on the bottoms of my feet laying across both of them then I'd launch it up into the air, quickly jumping to my feet and catching the staff. hehe :-)

ima truly glad that you got so much out of the site, popster! Your reaction alone has justified the time i put into it - may more and more people share the joy of staffage

so i just figured out how to spin it all the way around me without turning my body. you know how you can spin it behind your back, and then above your head but still behind you, and then back down again, and keep doing that for as long as you want? well, if when you have passed it from one hand to the other, and you spin your wrist forward (do half of a backwards butterfly) you can kick it in front of you, but still have it going in the same direction. switch hands, and bring it behind you again. it looks really cool.

29 days to go!!

Mwah... nice moves there. Have to see if I can bully this computer into printing it out, then go to the park and play play play.

If I was able to call anything a signature move, it would be one of these two:

1: Round and round the legs.
Start with legs well spread, bending forward and doing a very low helicopter, or grass-cutter or whatever. The way I do it is spinning the staff so it looks clockwise to me, in my right hand. (you need to be holding it in your fingers to spin it enough) *** Bring your right hand out round your right leg, timing it so that the staff (which you are finger spinning the whole while) is lined up to be passed between your legs from back to front to your left hand. *** You then spin with the left, bring your right hand back to the front and pass back. *** You've got however long it takes you to do the 180 in your right to get your left hand back behind you, and then you pass Right-Left Front-Back through your legs. *** Spin it in the fingers of your left hand as you bring it back round the outside of your left leg, pass back to your right hand, and start again... it goes on and on until you catch the back of your knee and set your trousers on fire!

2: The Amazing Wheel Of Death!
Actually this is just a cartwheel with one staff, so don't get excited. You need to be able to do a one-handed cartwheel, so if you're not sure then practice that first before you splash on the paraffin. *** I find the easiest time to do this is after a low pass behind the back. You want to be passing FROM whichever hand you want to do the cartwheel on. *** As the staff spins up in your off-hand, begin to turn your body toward that hand, and raise the other (your cartwheel hand) into the air. *** By the time the staff has spun to the point where you'd normally be needing to do a shoulder roll, your body should have turned enough to be dropping down into the cartwheel. *** The next bit is just a flurry of confusion for me... but when I get it right I'm back on my feet quick enough to do a through-the-legs pass before my off-hand has popped out of socket...

Sorry if these are old tricks and everyone knows them already! I've been a bit out of touch with the whole community for a long while, and I've got no idea what everyone else is up to... haven't even seen another staff swinger since I left Oz over a year ago! I'm based in England at the moment,down in Kent, so if anyone is nearby I'd be very keen to meet up and swap tricks. Holed up in a big house with two spare bedrooms and a massive bath! You're all welcome!

wow. so many cool things to try!!! i can't do a whole lot with my little staff yet, but i'm learning. you can do sooooo much more with a bigger staff!

Hmm.. signature move? I'm not fantastic at spinning just yet, but I have a couple of moves that I think are just plain me...

1. "Oh yeah, I'm cool.."
This one's really simple to do, but it's just that I can do it and people I spin to can't ^_^
I just go from a figure eight into spinning the staff one handed in front of me (without it going through my fingers) with the other arm held behind my back. I also lean back a little. If that makes any sense to anyone out there... It's just kind of a big-headed move, cos I've got the rhythm to spin one handed and the non-spinners drop it when they try

2. Random jumpy thing.
This one sounds really stupid to write down, but I love doing it. Holding the staff in my right hand, I run forward doing a figure eight, then halfway through when it reaches my left side I chuck it up in the air, then jump up after it, and catch it behind me and spin it round my back. Then I just land and keep spinning

I have a different approach to the signature moves. I've started doing a bunch of different tricks on high wire. It's fun and audiences like it.