What's your fav wick design amd why?

@Dster: its not hard to do moves with monkey fists.....
i mean it always depends on your opinion on what nice and good or wonderful means, but its not hard to do moves.......cause if you take a long chain you can even controll your poi and moves much better as you can play even more slow than with short chains and the weight is especially good for that!
otherwise if you dont have the weight its much harder to controll the poi and your play....at least thats my opinion! i can play more graceful, like nick thinks of my play, with the weight of the monkey fists!

so what exactly do you reckon is hard on doing moves with monkey fists???

I can understand that... but, like any different poi, I think it just takes a bit of practice to get used to a new set

Using your hips and body movement to give the poi that bit more oomph and momentum helps...

But, it's all poi at the end of the day

Best wishes for the new year x

Exactly, I have a *lot* of sets in different styles, most of which are pretty equivalent in their pros and cons, all of which I generally enjoy spinning, but for different reasons, my favourite depends on my mood, the conditions etc.

When I spin with fire, I usually spin both my cathedrals and my rolled heads (in turn one while the other is soaking in fuel). When I spin without fire, I mix up heavy socks, light socks, heavy tailed poi, and flags, depending on what aspects I want to focus on. Generally I use slightly heavier poi (I use tennis ball socks just for slo-mo learning tricky new stuff) but not usually heavier than about 135g. My standard practice set are foxysocks with juggling thuds in.

I do also find that drag helps a lot with heavy poi, tails (or flames for that matter) seem to slow them down and allow them to stay in the air while moving slowly and gracefully.

Well see when i do not have the wickes burning . i can do alot of moves . but i do not know how to put them all as one move . Like right now i am trying to work on the flower . i understand how it is done . i just need more time to work with them .
When i fire up my wicks i get in a zone were i dont think of what i am doing i just do it . it is like i dont think of anything i just do it . i do more of a dance . and some time i just get were i keep doing the same 4 moves .
and then when i get out of the zone i go in to my fire chucks . or what my frends would call body raps.
I wish there was more people that eather live or drive down here to spinn with us .

I do youes my body alot . see i do alot of dance . i dont like to stand in one spot and spinn . I am trying to get a cam so i can show u guys how i spinn . them u guys could help me out .

Am sure you're doing fine

Oh, I forgot to say, in my gallery I have some piccies comparing my fire heads.

Here is a rolled head: http://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/display.php?image=/500/34766IMG_3374.jpg
Here is a cathedral:
http://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/display.php?image=/500/34766IMG_3419.jpg

@kash: how does a fire head in the shape of a cathedral look???
in general i would stick to monkey fists, not only because of their weight .....i do love the shape of the flame as well!
but for your examples i would say the cathedral looks bigger with fire than the rolled head, but the rolled head looks much more beautiful with fire! but these are just my thoughts so far!

Something like this:
http://www.homeofpoi.com/shop/productDetails/87_50_Cube_Cathedral

Is the Flame as big as the monkey?

I rather like the cathedrals.

I've made a monkeyfist using rope before, but have never had the opportunity to try a fire set.

My first poi set though had this odd fold design, sorta like a variation of the cathedral I think.

~ Neser

normal, woven wicks. 100mm wide and a metre long on each end of your staff, now thats a good flame!!! ha ha

I am thinking about getting a set of snakes.

I think i can move alot better with them .

as least it will not have as much lbs as the monkey.

Right now I think this is my favorite:
http://www.salza.se/images/products/fullimages/106.jpg

I find any stall to be easier with these shapes ( tube-like ) since the weight is devided along the wick instead of like one single "clump" like a monkey fist.

These are on the heavy side of poi, at least I think they are. They do have really wonderful big flames. As previoulsy mentioned heavy stuff keep in their planes pretty well, which is ok for me. They arn't too heavy to manipulate at all either, no no =)

Yeye, I love em =)

this is why i want to get some new wicks .
i have the monkey.

monkey fists rule
then tubecore (preferable with a double length wick)
then kevlar rope (monkey fist ends are always an option)
but i personaly don't like cathedrals coz i find the aerodynamics are off.

Just my opinion.