Drews Poi and Stick Video Blog

You'll find more posts to more links to video clips in every post I make in this thread - Look out for 3 angels


Todays video for your pleasure:
Baton twirling - Sheryl Welykholowa, Jill Ford, Stacy Singer - Triple Threat
Linky linky

Details: On stage probably 2002 . A super tight performances from world champion standard baton twirlers.
Amazingly talented trio including Stacy Singer doing monster rolls - a move apparently invented for her and remamed matrix by the edinburgh staff twirlers.
See Glitzy stuff, 3 baton juggling, contact sequence and some qualilty strutting about.

If you like this, make a post below. If you have any requests, I can post them too.

Dr Ew

oh, I thought monster rolls refered to the entire neck spins and matrix and frontside stuff. If you'd said it was delinated, I might have used that name instead.

What you nuts ?

Matrix is a much cooler name :P

Thanks for posting Drew

as for requests - erm, can you sort me out those three for an evening?

Failing that some more of the same please

or a video of yourself

Matrix is a cool name - however "monster roll" has its qualities.... maybe we need to create a monster move to suite it

Nice. If you can find any footage of Michelle Baas before she gets to my house tomorrow, Id love to see it

You dont' by any chance have a link to a static copy of the video, such as wmv/avi/mov do you? I can't bring myself to install realmedia...

"or a video of yourself"


Yep. Not an old one. New and shiny

this:

http://www.sharp-baton.com/b2c/category/asp/CtgID/1046/af/page.htm

or this:

http://www.starlinebaton.com/prodDetails.asp?keyid=129

or any baton video where they name what they are doing.

a baton twirler doing fire... sandy said he's seen one at nottingham? Wouldn't mind seeing that video.

yea but you've seen it already, its not very impressive. Its that bit out of a film on your stolen spinning vid (i think)

I thought you said it was on fire? nobody does a frontside angel roll on fire in any on my videos...

I should have plenty of video of a baton twirler doing fire after this weekend

i actually only called it the matrix cause it looked like the poi move.....

Thank you all for posting, Well its officially now Friday, So I can post todays super link:
Michelle Smith Supergood baton Twirler Canada

Video Linkies:
The fist link is my favorite:
Freestyle
Solo
Doubles

Expect to see: Lovely routines, and super hot technical baton twirling. I like the way that she keeps the batons flowing a lot more than other baton twirlers tend to do, and she doesn't break plan soo much either


8 times represented Canada at the world baton twirling championships!!
Heres a profile about her:
http://www.albertabaton.com/page19.htm#Michelle%20Smith

And she is responsible for one of my all time favorite stick clips
the clip is "michellefreestyle2003.mpeg" or
"michellefreestyle2003shithotbatongoth.mpeg" !!

But I don't have an active link
It's What happened to this one in just 2 years? She got cool !
and still kept winning,
you'll find some of that clip in meg's Stolen spinning - the goth with the pentagram on the back of the costume

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Meg, I think you'll love all of Michelles Rolls from todays video blog

OoooOOO, that's the site I found annette lucero's videos on.... Hmmmm... where are they....

OMG frames, and quicktime buttons? It's like a flashback to a bygone era.... This website would have worked well under netscape I think....

Yay! Found them!

Lovely!

Yeep...

Are any of you staffer types in contact with the baton twirlers?

It shouldn't be that hard to get a contact email.

This lady should be invited to the EJC

Thanks again for posting, Saturdays super link:

Well seeing as that was 2 lots of Stick links, I think it has to be something for the poi fans

click to gallery:
http://www.indrayoga.com/Gallery.htm

Expect to see: 2 ladies, of indra - lots of wiggling/dance/ not technical spinning

I like the chilled out yoga stuff at the begining, thats fab
Personally I'm not so keen on the trashy pornstar stuff later on in the clip, its not the style I dig.
It kinda makes me laugh but I guess thats what sell over there in the US of A.
Definately High quality filming and production and hence earn a place in Drews Super video blog.
cool

nice...
watching the vid makes me want to take up yoga...
question is, what's the motivation?

so you can be like a sexy lady?

Sunday Special. Not poi. not staff, but
Bees fighting - Hold on for the surprise ending as to how the little bees fight back against the big hornets!!
Then tell me, how the hell did that evolve??

National Geographic News 2005 Number 1 video clip:
Bees Battle "Hornets From Hell"

"A small but highly efficient killing machine lurks in the mountains of Japan—the Japanese giant hornet. The voracious predator pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Just a handful of these hornets can kill 30,000 European honeybees within hours. Watch an attack of giant hornets on a beehive, and learn the surprising secret that Japanese honeybees use in their defense."

Here's the rest of the Nat Geog top 10:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1216_051216_top_video.html

OMG...

"After I get done with these pitiful humans, I will begin my war against...... THE BEES!"
-ZIM "Invader Zim"

Happy Monday, and what does this Monday turn up on Drews video Blog?
This nostaligic old clip will charm all the silent movie buffs.
A Historic film from the pathe News Archive showing Col. Sgt George Simpson in 1933
Flag poi and club swinging in the UK.

Follow this link, and you should find a free preview low res download at the bottom of the page:
http://www.britishpathe.com/thumbnails.p...club%20swinging

In order to download you have to go through the whole basket thing. but It won't cost any money, and its well worth it as you can get a lot more historic videos of all kind of interesting things - a great site to waste days on. theres at least 1 more club swinging clip.
http://www.britishpathe.com

So for a couple of days I have put the little puppie up in my gallery here:
http://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=829
catch it while you can.

"Since the world's beginning, we've all searched for that "youngish feeling". "Club swinging" keeps this 67 year-older young!" Elderly man stands in front of a curtain in the Pathe studio demonstrating his club swinging technique. "Hard as nails and fit as the proverbial fiddle through club and flag swinging" (says Geo. Simpson, late Col Sgt, Middlesex Regt.)"

Closer view of George as he swings a Union Jack and a Stars and Stripes around his head - very patriotic! L/S of George flag swinging. "Slow-motion shows how complete these exercises are for the arms and shoulders"

Slow motion footage shows flags off to best effect. "Incidentally, the flags are not fastened to rods as they first appear, but just weighted with shot and roped - the speed keeps them taut." Another slow motion sequence.
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OK, some other historical sources:
Over at "The Journal of Manly Arts"* ( http://ejmas.com/jmanly/ )we have:
Club swinging - (not video)
http://ejmas.com/pt/ptart_dick_0101.htm
http://ejmas.com/pt/ptart_treat_0501.htm
http://ejmas.com/pt/ptart_ymca_0401.htm

and stick fighting:
http://ejmas.com/jmanly/articles/2001/jmanlyart_a-wp-w_0901.htm
http://ejmas.com/jwma/articles/2000/jwmaart_wolf_0500.html

*Not wishing to be associated with some of the more "fance figures with club swinging" which I guess will be somewhere in "The Journal of Girly Arts".

Enjoy
Drew

Woohoo for Drew's library of splendid videos.

I wonder if that guy's grandkids spin?

Hmmmmm.

Thanks Drew!

You just reminded me of this

Crap theres only 7 minutes left of Tuesday, and I've got to find something good to post!!
Ok folks, todays funky offering:

http://www.feriamusica.org/
click on play

its a performance of
Dance
acro
trampolines
trapize
aerial
juggling and stuff
to tango music
(from brussels)

I'd REALLY like to see this show, a friend who did says:
"...amazing skills ...., and was the most beautiful thing
I'd ever seen."

Plus if you go to the archives, you can see some of their older shows

**bounce**
Drew Very Happy
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Thanks LazyAngel

i can't keep up with all this... is that indra yoga the poi softporn you showed us in nottingham? i'm gonna download it and find out....

Its Wednesday, and Wednesday is poi day:

Here's a link to one of my top 5 favorite poi videos of all time:
Andy House Spinning in Koh Tao
If you want to see this footage in high quality I recommend that you buy COL 5.
Beautifully filmed, beautiful music, Awesome spinning by a lovely guy. Perfect.

Here is where it was first posted on HOP, in a thread (not in the video section) thats worth reading and a link to that beauiful sand art too:
http://www.homeofpoi.com/ubbthreads/show...rev=#Post432819
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No Duball, thats not the Nottigham softcore

Thanks Drew... let me know if you hear of Feria Musica coming to visit... I might come over too

And... sigh... Andy rocks Good to see that video again...