Staff Goals for 2007

 Written by: mcp


1:: Tell a story, or at least communicate something other than "I can do staff well" in a routine.
2:: learn a couple more performance styles.
3:: get my knee better and do more acrobatics.
4:: learn contact doubles, and possibly long doubles also.
5:: make more comedy non-fire staffs.
6:: learn to juggle three staffs
7:: quit my job. go to circus school.
8:: learn roue cyr
9:: make more doubles tutorials.

So a mid-ish year update:

1: Have an idea for a routine, haven't got around to making it yet thou. My doubles routine, I would like to think might communicate something once I get it really good.
2: Still trying. Figured out what those performance styles are, but haven't done much about it yet.
3: Knee isn't better, but I still have managed to do some integration of staff and acrobatics... Still gotta continue with the knee healing thou.
4: Done a lot on this. Need to find more doubles contact moves to work on....
5: Done A LOT of this. Gonna make more thou....
6: Learn two staff throwing a lot better, and club juggling, but have yet to learn 3 staff juggling, apart from flashes. Have a much better idea of what I want to do with 3 staff manipulation thou.
7: Not yet.
8: Yup. Got one, can do it, need to buy a gym membership and convince them to let me use it in the squash courts.
9: Kinda, kinda not.

How's everybody else going?

 Written by: bastl


1)_single fishtails
more antispins and islotions
2)_dual fishtails
freedom in movement through all standart directions and combinations (solid)
3)_3 staff throwing
just come up with combinations, variations...nothing for stage
4)_keep on working with david on our contactshow
5)_perform in an other continent than europe
6)_produce 2 conceptual staffvideos with david
7)_and yes learn steves, (full, all parts, prayer) as promised

update:
1) nöp nothing done in this direction
2) phu my parrallels are still not clean, and i can´t play fwd wheelplane sametime fishtales yet
but all other standart directions (in my understanding) with dual fishtales should be fine now, so at least something
3) i got a mixture containing rubensteins revenge and 531 combinations...quite weired to play, but not on vid yet...
4) kinda, kinda not, the solo show at uberparis was a first step in this direction...waiting for play
5) nöp not yet, soo anybody outside of europe: invite me
6) still not, but we got an idea for one, maye in august
7)still can´t do a full steve propperly, but 35 prayers in a row and 100 halfsteves in a row work... yehay

btb 3 staff, nöp i reached level 7 out of 12 to play a mills mess btb, and about 7 catches from 3 staff backcross, but nothing solid...and i stopped training it..so maybe not this year

so i guess secound half of the year is gonna be busy

 Written by: simian


come up with a different way of moving a stick about that looks odd and makes people go "Cripes!" or similar

wobbly pencils still aren't 'there' yet, and anyway they were around in pre-proto form before 2007. Well, i was doing them with pencils in the 80s anyway.

so i guess secound half of the year is gonna be busy

 Written by: tim_marston


megan,what does
learn roue cyr
mean?

 Written by: bluecat


learn more stuff.
watch kyle, will, meg and meast more
actually play with some wierd ideas i've been having, instead of just having them

1 - yep
2 - yep more to come, too...
3 - mmm. done some, but too busy with loads of other stuff....

2 1/2 out of 3.

not so busy for me then

 Written by: ArthurBrown


Quit my job for a year, and bum around Ireland staffing every day.

Well I handed in my notice at the start of this month, today is my penultimate day in work, and I arrive in Ireland on the 4th of July.

Booked it, packed it, f00ked off!

Now I just have to practice every day in Ireland. Shame I broke my wrist 10 days ago.

 Written by: simian

 Written by: tim_marston


megan,what does
learn roue cyr
mean?

it's like hula hoop but gayer

 Written by: why


Actually find some time to play with stick
Some staff training/practice rather than playtime sessions when I do make the time (e.g. all the 1/2 beats possible in the world ever)
Go to more conventions/meets to see LOVELY LOVELY people, oh and learn things
Get back my fluidity
Try and learn some more "moves" and thieir "families" (throwy things, better and new steveages, snesing, matrices (joining the 2 1/2s), better and new fishtails, pivoting joys)
Get happy with more o my repertoire on fire
More movement/prancing/poncing/posing of myself

Lots more I'd like to do, but a year isn't that long if you don't have a lot of staff time

- working on... The new wee ones have been out a bit in the flat and not destroyed it
- a little... much more needed
- Going to PLaY, but that's about it... but 1 is more than none... visiting Ed a fair bit too...
- meh... more work...
- not really yet... (see 2nd point)
- yeah I forgot I said this one...
- movement, yes... poncing needs more work



not quite at half way to goals...
Have been distracted by other toys...

 Written by: strugz


ahhh you talking throat wrap to frontside halo to throat wrap....

in therory you can do those all day long .....

without a nose of course

Target acheived also frontside stalls reverse into jesus has been nailed a few times so I'm happy

you can't do them all day long because I get dizzy and fall over at about 13
they aren't quite throat wraps though as the point of contact is pretty much constant.

new goal to do my 3 staff juggling on fire want to get the patterns a little more solid first