Manchester Spinners Meet up Info + Stuff

In that case

WANTED
The 'Oh-No' - Dave

OFFERED
CONTACT STAFF - Dave

Also if people (i.e you Sim) want to join in with teaching feel free! Help and a different perspective is always helpful!

weirdly, i keep getting two emails from neon's posts. the text matches in both, but the first is from mcp!

i'f i wasa there, i'd offer people the chance to learn how to dance like a twat...just like me!

am i the only one finding this wanted / offered thing confusing?

awww poor pidge is confuzzled!


awsome dave!

Like this...

WANTED
The 'Oh-No' - Dave
Doubles Contact - Seye
Staff on Staff - Seye

OFFERED
CONTACT STAFF - Dave
Poi (General) - Seye
Poi Isolations - Seye
Devilstick (anything, including contact) - Seye

Robyn it's simple. If there's something specific you want to learn which you know someone can teach you you just put your name and what it is you want to learn in the 'WANTED' list. And if someone is willing to teach you they will put their name in the the 'OFFERED' list with your name under them! And anyone else who's interested in learning!

Simple

WANTED
The 'Oh-No' - Dave

OFFERED
CONTACT STAFF - Dave
DOUBLES/STAFF-ON-STAFF - Dave
Seye
POI(General) - Seye
Dave
POI ISOLATION - Seye
Dave
DEVILSTICK(anything, including contact) - Seye

dave, dont get why you need to put "on no" on your wanted list, all you do is put your hands on your face n do stuff

So Sim...

WANTED


OFFERED
CONTACT STAFF - Dave
DOUBLES/STAFF-ON-STAFF - Dave
Seye
POI(General) - Seye
Dave
POI ISOLATION - Seye
Dave
DEVILSTICK(anything, including contact) - Seye
The 'Oh-No' - Sim
Dave

WANTED


OFFERED
CONTACT STAFF - Dave
DOUBLES/STAFF-ON-STAFF - Dave
Seye
POI(General) - Seye
Dave
POI ISOLATION - Seye
Dave
DEVILSTICK(anything, including contact) - Seye
The 'Oh-No' - Sim
Dave
G-STYLE POI - sim
SILLY NOT1.5 VARIATIONS - sim

Anyone else want to learn anything?

Post anything (from real basics through to really geeky) and see if anyone can help.

I like this idea Dave - We should do it more often.

WANTED
someone to teach me something following on from staff conveyor belt!
halos
staff contacty stuff

OFFERED
nunchuk basics
5 beat weave

I realise this is a sad indictment of my skillset but hey

I can help with that dude but Dave is the man really.

WANTED


OFFERED
CONTACT STAFF - Dave (& Seye)
Fractos
DOUBLES/STAFF-ON-STAFF - Dave
Seye
POI(General) - Seye
Dave
POI ISOLATION - Seye
Dave
DEVILSTICK(anything, including contact) - Seye
The 'Oh-No' - Sim
Dave
G-STYLE POI - sim
SILLY NOT1.5 VARIATIONS - sim
NUNCHUK BASICS - Fractos
POI 5 BEAT WEAVE - Fractos

now all we have to do is transfer words into action

All sounds great, and will motivate me to want to come to some meets before I go off.

I'll offer hoop and movement with poi - (Old Skool stylee - dancing with poi rather than standing in one spot and doing lots of tricks)

In return I'd like someone to help me with the poi routine I've got to do for a friends wedding. eekk! Somebody else stick me in the template, I'm too hungry to do it myself.

Prob will see you on the 3rd then

sounds cool the lack of actual spinning was one of the thing putting me off coming to as many meets

also I have become super self conscious of my own spinning


WANTED
More people to spin so I don’t feel like I’m being watched
Very patient people to teach me very basic contact (I'm very stubborn and hard to teach)


OFFERING
Beginner poi (I’m quite good at teaching the basics
Unicycle lessons

How about moving back to the park now its summer

we have a great park near our house but it may be more dificult to get to than plat fields

or how about one of the other smaller parks along oxord road?

Past the number into Google maps

Alexandra park (near our house) 53.451060, -2.252180
Whitworth Park 53.458748, -2.229710
Birchfields Park 53.451350, -2.212380
Nice bit of grass by manchester uni 53.470353,-2.238293
seem to remember this is nice near MMU 53.471656,-2.224989

guys need help!

someone posted a link to some pics on here (i think last year....) from a manc meet, there was a pic of me in grey scale leaning on my staff, i think i was listening to dave at the time.....

i need that pic! please help if you have an idea where it is or who has it....

cheers

Not sure Jen. I scoured Pete's and Wez's pictures for one but couldn't find it. Might be on Rick's I dunno.

From the list, going by what seems to be popular, I think the best way to get everyone together to spin but keep it slightly informal is to have one hour purely for Contact Staff and one hour of Purely Poi. Simta, Seye and I can alternate in teaching contact staff stuff. Simta, Seye and Fractos can take the Poi class alternating in teaching. With a third hour of one-on-ones for anything else like unicycling, devilstick.

So if we meet up from about 3 or 4 shall we say:-

4pm - CONTACT STAFF - Dave, Seye, Simta

5pm - POI - Simta, Seye, Fractos

6pm - NUNCHUCKS - Fractos, DEVILSTICK - Seye, HOOP - Robyn (from me ) UNICYCLE - TOBI

Afterwards can be for random Q&A or general playing. With the ice broken with the workshops it should be easier for anyone with questions they want to address on a more one-to-one basis to do so.

This is just an idea. Feel free to add or suggest a different way of doing it.