Shadow Contact Dance

your quotes been edited into the first post miss fairy so that it doesnt get lost with all the general chit chat

bryn youll have to do a new video soon me thinks

ben got the stuff rescued off that tape, and im supprised at some of it being me, we (me ifrit and russel of the devilstick varity) now have somewhere to practice at college, and so will be churning out videos like there is no tomorrow maybe.
gonna prctice the tai chi stuff with some one else and me staffing at the same time ( will be good combat defence training for them, me thinks)

oh the book is by chee soo, its on the tai chi form, probibly worth looking up

off out now, my friend is up from exeter and i havent seen her in an age, will edit tomorrow

added a new video to the hop gallery with slightly better chi fish but still to fast and forced also a slow mo video for dual fishtails just for u mr bryn

ben

if you just move slower you wont have to put things in slow motion....

hope that helps

come to the fringe festival in march

have decidd that the footage ihave at the moment it crap!!!
so i'll do some more, cheers for the duality tutorial .
chi fish is gettin better, and doing more than fish with it as well, just to keep things moving.

I need another day in the park, but its not gonna happen this weekend. fran is down (has no real relevance but still)


*update* ok the tutorial video was very good, can get up to 2beats out of duals now , coming from the tai chi side of it all, whislt trying to get it my left shoulder was really tight, when i finally found the right movement and stance the shoulder wnet free and they flowed untill i thought about them :S will practice more tomorrow.

have added a section on fishtails which needs to be fleshed out a bit still but its got transition ideas

also a section on the concept of static points and transient points

any thing more been going on ben?

im playing with steves with two sticks and using the second staff to devil stick it when it comes off, makes me really focus on where the staff is going rather than making it go somewhere. still playing with it no where near solidarity, might get it ready for col 2005 if im lucky

What do u mean when you say Stick it?
I'm really keen to start learning more staff moving staff stuff. There must be heaps of crazy sh*! there.

as in a horizontal devil stick properller

Kewl. I *think* I know what you mean.

added a short section on tripples and an even shorter section on doubles

Just read your Shadow Contact Dance Post - Thanxx Ben

Slow, controlled, fluent contact with the staff so that you get in "contact" with the staff and finally get one. It is like doing Tai Ch`i or meditation in slow movements.
This is not the technical performing of one contact movement after the other where the contact time is minimal that I have experienced with most of the contact spinners I have met or seen.
It sounds more like the contact spinning (where I learned it we called it massage movements because of the slow intense contact with the skin) I used to do and love to do so

I´m very exited to see the first vids of your Shadow Contanct Dance Ben so do them fast.

I´m still waiting for someone to make a vid of my staff massage session which I could post here....