The jedi staff set.......

id love it to be man..............but im a realist

besides. the jedi council say they are full until next year

sounds v.nice strugz..u eva thought of coming to manchester some time????
mike.c

Oooh Kyle's staff.. hmm

Picture contact staff meets drunken master meets snake charmer meets cirque du soleil dancer meets that evil wizard who tried to kill Aladdin, but gone good, meets giant mechanical clockwork robot gone humorous plus life modelling gone wacky. With 1, 2 or 3 staves. Beautiful to watch.

Those wise men he consulted when he was experimenting with lucid dreaming must have let him in on a big secret.

I should also mention that Kyle is an extremely talented guitarist, which must somehow factor into the staff stuff, not to mention does a great artsy talkback radio show with Jesse on the way to random doofs.

I like the sound of Kyle.............

I play guitar too although i dont have a radio show, does that help staffage as well

and mike - manchester - no, but ill be in birmingham on saturday, come down

either that - or come all the way down to soton

yeah where i was looking to do somthing on sat
mike.c

but i dont rlly know my way around b so could i meet you at the station?
mike.c

check events forum or click here:

BJC 10th

Dude - neither do i, ive never been there and am getting driven for a change........ however i do know a few peeps from that neck of the woods who could help, perhaps.........

Send fluffy napalm fairy a pm for directions, shes one of those local people (well sorta)

thanks..
c u there then

**Ponders with Ry**

Bread....mmmm its all in the bread...... damn i wish id listend to my mother when i was younger.................

Hey Ry - does he eat the crust?

Think it's a yes, I'll have to check..

megan posted this link or the unofficial osaka baton results: see the contact section
http://void.printf.net/~meghan/OfficialResultsOsaka2004.wmv

show me a staff twirler who can do this - on stage, cleanly and in time with the music

I don't think we have overtaken the baton twirlers for technical performance or presentation yet.
but we will

whats a horizontal halo???

i think im getting somewhere with that trick strugz, end of the year me thinks and it will be done

Lavatwilight: Halo - is the term for going over shoulder to shoulder from back of neck, usualy taught / learnt in the vertical plane......

Just lean forward man then do this move again, best way i could describe what im trying to do above really as your body position makes this happen when coming out of the matrix.............well for me anyway

Glass: Ive been watching them since Meg posted *awesome*, i agree weve got a long way to go and when we get there i think it will be far more interesting to watch than baton

How is your technical performance coming after all this time educating yourself in the dancing world? You looked ace a couple of years ago, id guess now that your not far off these guys already!

so, after close perusal those guys are only ahead on the following:

acrobatics and flexibility
presentation
a few moves(not that many tho)


i slomoed all the contact sections and found there were about 6 moves i plain can't do, and about 4 that are a bit sketchy, and some that are plain hard cause of the speed you can get with a baton that you can't get with a five footer.
it just don't impress me as much as it used to. once again its the presentation and choreography thats miles ahead.
and as for doubles, i met a baton twirler last year(french team) who said there was noone who did doubles like i(and therefore many others) did.

i'll agree with drew: we're well behind n technique and presentation, but we will catch up and i think overtake, becaue we learn in a free environment: there is no wrong or right, and the people that are doing it are wwwaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy more innovative cause its not competitive.

eg dave moseph took the contact illusion and put it into doubles and used it as a cross entry, which looks fuck1ng amazing, and i will bet big money no baton twirler has done it like that(why wouldn't you perform something harder and more beautiful than something that gets huge acclaim...)


anyhow.
rant over, position held for argument if wanted

smiles
R

no argument needed there Rob:

i agree