The jedi staff set.......

interesting, i think the forward roll way would work better yes.

Dunno if its like a prayer steve cos of the back roll but i like where your going with this prayer feet business.

How about if you did a leg prayer steve then rolled over onto your front at the end so it rolls up the inside of your leg (the other one from the one its just rolled down) so that there could be some kind of cage leg steve?
(at every point i mention steve's in terms of legs shall we just assume i mean min steve cos of the lack of head and neck and i cant be arsed to write it every time)

knee traps, ive tried these and found them really difficult. You can get it to trap but getting the staff out again in any kind of smooth fashion so far just results in bruised shins. What i want to get is a knee trap which when kicked out rolls over both knees and traps back on the other side.

I was thinking about doing knee traps when in a shoulder stand of some kind, (not sure of the yoga name) do your knee is pointed toward the floor, and your body is folded over... it would make the legs horizontal and act like the arms do, (elbows fold down)

Things are kinda inverted with your legs, cos the knee joint goes the other way to the elbow joint. meaning the butt / underside of your leg is equivalent to the upper side of your arm...

can you do those stalls breakdancers do on one arm? I was thinking there must be some kind of leg trap you could going into one of those and then kicking it back out as you come out.

Ooooh just remembered a ridiculous move i thought of at Bristol convention. do a matrix at the same time as doing a flare the breakdance move where you kick into a turning handstand by leaning backwards and spin on one hand at a time. A matrix could totally fit in there jsut need to spend about 5 years learning to breakdance like a pro.

yeah kinda one arm and a shoulder I was thinking, or both shoulder and upperback on the floor your arms forming a triangle with your body to keep your legs in the air...

Right I've meaning to do this for a while, I'm going to talk to the yoga teachers I know and sort out a yoga sequence for contact staff.

A selection of postures I can practice which provide stable visually interesting platforms for moves and also movements which help build the strength/flexibility/control needed for contact staff in general.

Hopefully talking to a teacher will help make a sequence which both builds up logically, is balanced (ie. bending both ways), interesting to do and with sensible alternatives for the beginner or the advanced.

If any one else is interested I'll produce a booklet or video when I'm done.

ill have one. Hadnt thought of asking yoga teachers, good idea. Im gonna find a breakdancer somewhere and get them to show me some stuff. i see the moves but getting into them is bloody difficult so i need some tips.
Right im bored of editing play footage now (im constantly being reminded im not there) so im gonna go roll around on the floor for a while and see if come up with anything new.

Hmmm, jedi staffing...

 Written by: -sandy- in new move thread

3 staffs, 2 in reverse fishtail while the other does an angel roll. When the angel roll is about to reach the hand, throw the fishtail (in the hand about to catch the angel roll) up at the same time as starting the next angel roll (other fishtailing hand straight to angel) then with your now free hand catch the thrown staff back into fishtail. Repeat.

This move, or any three contact staff juggling deserves to be on the list. Dual fishies and lucero variations would be nice to see one day. As would 3 staff juggling done with fishtails and the occasional body roll.

I feel that actual dual contact staff is just round the corner, bits of it are already here, so it can't be Jedi.

Maybe stringing lots of it together would be ninja though...

i dunno, the dual contact stuff we are working on now is still fairly basic, i think there are a lot more moves yet undiscovered that should class as jedi. I mean a full steve and a matrix has to be jedi.
Also i recon atomic dual contact has to have some jedi to it, again probably too early to name specific moves but i think they are ther somewhere, just have to work them out.
This is why i think contact staff has just had a kinda renewal and has become exciting again, there is so much unexplored stuff still out there.

I think the problem (or the good thing) about jedi is it always remains out of reach... moving the goalposts so to speak.

I mean, if we could do it, it wouldn't be jedi.

so is there a hierarchy of coolness then? skilled human -> ninja -> jedi -> bene gesserit -> godlike -> god

now we just need a breeding program...

I like to breed although my staff skills need a little work

mix boric acid and rubbing alcohol and it will burn green
thats my advice for the jedi