Do YOU hit yourself alot while practicing??

ha ha.. yeah I havent been hitting myself with the poi too much lately. Thats not to say there not some close shaves, and when they're alight that doesn't leave much room for error (hence the lepper-esq "haircut". I just pretend that im making some kind of statement with my radically unveven hair. 'Hey! its ment to be that way! ummmm)

Only just picked up the staff recently, after having eyes only for my poi-love.. so yeah bit unco there. Tops me up on my ouch 'button/googy egg' counts. I reckon you can do more damage to yourself with a staff!!

Oooh I did a great one the other week. Hit me right between my eyes bending the bridge of my glasses. I actually had a bruised line where my glasses were pushed into my nose.

Owy!... *kisses kash on nose* ...better?

Oooh

I managed a nice burn the other day too. Usually when I hit myself witht he fire poi (which will inevitably happen) it glances off and just leaves a sooty smear behind, but I managed to catch myself on the underside of my upper arm where the skin is thin, made a little red square (cathedral wick) and was *really* annoyingly sore for couple of days. Gone now though.

Note to self: with fire poi, you can't just stop in the middle of a move that isn't quite working.

Yeah, I am after more kisses

ha ha ha ha fishing for kisses. I thought so...I like your style!

*smooooch*

I have a little chain burn on my arm......?

*waits expectantly*

Yeah yeah you get kisses too, just this once :P

*smug smile*

Dont underestimate my powers of weasling some more out of you....

*runs off to draw up a plan jay and silent bob style*

shameless, pip... shameless... I have much to learn from your evil, evil ways...

as for the hitting thing... btb weave seems a very good way to get hit a lot... every single time I try, *whack* in the chest

yes, I do. And sometimes I also hit others ... but that usually only happens when I walk along the streets while spinning ...
however, it turns out guys seem to like that. They always start smiling at me then. I think if I really wanted to, I could have gotten quite a few dates like that
(even though I don't know whether I want to date guys that like to be hit with pois ...)

Oh yeah hitting yourself happens all the time, it dosent matter how long you might have been spinning for. Also poi hit the ground, they hit each other, sometimes they even fly off under there own power.

I got these pair of really sweet LED poi, that have 7 different colours loaded into them, which can be set to one constant colour, alternate quikcly between each one, or fade slowly. All with the press of one button.

The only problem with them is there are housed in this rediculously brittle and hollow shell that is stupidly large at 7cm in diamiter, while the LED unit is a little under 4cm's (stupid). After three days one cracked and had to be replaced. I sent an e-mail to the shop I bought it from and got this bullshit e-mail back saying they have recieved no complaints about the product, or had to send replacments in the post to customers, and I was advised they are not for 'new spinners'.

Oh by the way, these are Starburst Glow Poi (bought from sonic stars), avoid them unless you can find a way to replace the poi head with a better one.

not been properly hit for a long time but then yesterday i was rudely awoken far too early with a fone call from crazyhippychick tellin me i need to come to the park and bring my poi cos she forgot hers

and being far too sleepy i smacked myself on left shoulder proper harsh

but despite the pain i havent played today, so i shall be pushin pain barriers lol

Heh heh, I have some the the ebay seconds, sonic stars. They are a little naff, of perhaps I have been spoiled by the lovely LED poi I got from HOP.
IMO they are too large and light. I swapped the chain for a nylon cord (so the poi would be a little heavier than the cord) and that helped a bit.
They also don't have a consistant light, on time lapse photography they appear to pulse/flicker, which means you get a trail of dots rather than a line.
Compare this (sonic stars): http://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/showpho...=all&page=1
To this (HOP): http://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/showpho...=all&page=1

Hi there just to add my 2 cents worth
If you havent hit yourself in the balls recently then your not learning!

Just had a revelation
Not everybody out the has balls and if this is the case please apply whatever term you feel is most apropriate.

i got myself in my left ear. the ear that has six piercings in it all the way up. that hurt. shortly before that i let my friend Seb have a go, and with five seconds he was writhing around on the grass.... it was mean, but i just could not stop laughing. bless!

I smack myself all the time, but Im still learning... im a very very new newbie But last night, I FINALLY got the 3 beat weave, have no idea why I couldnt do it before, I always always smacked my head, got the poi tangled, or did something messed up. Then last night, I just relaxed and tried it slow, and I got it, I just kept doing it over and over and now I have no idea how I could never do it before. WOOT for learning new moves!

But I still smack myself often

I spent a year with people thinking I either needed to eat more liver "for the iron," take prenatal vitamins (same darned reason!), dump my "obviously abusive boyfriend," or some combination of all of the above.

TTN finally stopped evading me, and the "helpful advice" has stopped. *phew*

i managed to hit myself in the face with my fire poi whilst they were lit the other day. that was a scary experience.

actually YES... because every poi hits to its owner.. i havent got any hits from 12 but my neck still hurts...