2009 Staff Goals

Sweeeeeeeeeettttt!

A whole new year of practise! Ready Set Go!

Yeah, so this thread, again, is for logging your goals per year / per month and seeing how you progress at them, as well as just plain remembering them...

This is for all staffers, (poiers, get your own thread, if any of you can unslack long enough to make one) not just the contact staffers or whatever... jugglers, doubles whatever if it's with sticks, it flies.

Here's mine:


So at least for me, being pretty much good on my previous goals... gonna make some new ones and see if they relate...

1) Write more stuffs down about staff and contact.
2) Finish the 2nd DVD.
3) Do more fire.
4) Make those glow videos I've been thinking about.
5) Make that contact video I've been thinking about.
6.1) FINISH the 'blind date' routine.
6.2) FINISH 'amazing machines' routine.
6.3) FINISH 'pachebels canon' routine.
7) Think more on writing down ideas and choreographies for multiple people.
8) Work out doubles in my head.
9) More club contact. + Club Routine.
10) Make a movement workshop.
11) Be more like Wes Peden and Julian Wong...
12) Go to the CJC.
13) Learn Handstands and Aerials.

WooHoo! I love these threads...

1. More contact practice
2. More tosses practice
3. Learn to teach better...
4. Make shorter staffs
5. An east coast doubles video
6. Teach at firedrums
7. Meet Meast and Malaman
8. Fire promo

1) 8 RH throws 4 staff shower solid;
2) 10 different 3 staff 360/180 variations;
3) Dual fishies
4) Learn every contact trick I can do back the other way
5) Basic footwork techniques from a few dance styles
6) Finish off the Mr Scruff doubles routine
7) Get a multi-trick 3 staff juggling sequence solid and performable on fire, every time
8) Throws video

oh, and afterthought 9) Make some decent practice juggling staffs so I don't keep ruining the wick on my fire set!

here we go...

1) get better at staff
2) do at least 75% of the list meg sent me.
3) make 'organic cow: the milk strikes back' video
4) make a new V+O sketch
5) re-drill all the old moves.
6) make an interesting multiperson fire routine....
7) finish, get illustrated, and print the first book.

1) Get a new staff (thank you KLM)
2) Get Buugeng
3) Get back in shape with doubles
4) Learn contact moves the other way
5) Continuous Jesuses
6) Matrix
7) Fishtails in all directions, antispin fishtails, some other fishtail variations
8) Be able to do neck combos continuously.
9) work on body movement (be more like banyan)
10) go to england again
11) perform more. loads more.
12) new routines in everything.

shoot, #1 is to get my back to heal (bad fall)

1) theraputic stretches and stuff
2) more fire with the staff
3) learn a bunch of leg pinches, wraps, and kickups
4) re-learn the matrix (Im sure I'll be awful once Im able to bend that much again)
5) practice double staff, especially contact doubles
6) clean up all fishtails
7) start saving for a new toy: 3-piece fire staff, glow doubles, OR Buugeng (cant make up my freaking mind)
8) try to make it back to Ireland for some video shooting.

1. Matrix....I'll have it by '10
2. start practicing again with staff
3. develope a 1 and 2 club routine
4. juggle more....that's why I stopped practicing staff...
5. modify my flow staff

1) Continuous steves
2) Second half of the matrix
3) Get my super-duper LED+Picaxe glowstaff to be reliable enough that I can:
a) Make a glowstaff video
b) Not come home from spinning stinking of kerosene
4) One-handed cartwheels with staff
5) Back somersaults consistent to do on grass (staff optional here)

1. Fishtails.
2. Tidy up what i know.
3. lern what i know the other way.
4. Doubles.
5.And i realy realy need to work more on neck spins.

1. play more staff less poi
2. practise and nail old moves both ways
3. more different fishtails
4. more 2 person 1 staff, two person two staff routines
5. footwork and acrobatics
6. variations of different moves

1. Get back into contact so i train it more than once or twice a week.
2. get the convict matrix properly (one of last years goals but doubles and clubs got in the way)
3. get my multi plane doubles hybrids solid
4. more quarter time hybrids.
5. Teach Rob staff
6. Perform 'Voodoo Sticks' routine at lots of conventions and get it booked by people that will pay me.
7. Solid Ultimate roll.

LOL TRY DOING THE WASHING UP FIRST!

1. Get addicted to the staff again, as I've been slacking.
2. Learn everything on the left!!
3. Put together a half-way decent routine.

I won't set myself too many goals, otherwise I'll underachieve.

I have only just started with my staff. any ideas on goals i should set?

1)be able to do everything i can smoothly without any awkwardness (think this is a constant goal, cos you can always be smoother+sharper)
2)learn more head stuff
3)learn more ohno and convict stuff (didn't do this much last year)
4)more 3d doubles stuff
5)make some staffs to start juggling with
6)work on more ball+staff stuff

Anybody who hasn't written goals, you still can. It's great fun, and really helps you chart your progress through the year...

So Feb update:

1) Write more stuffs down about staff and contact.
-- done a little...
2) Finish the 2nd DVD.
-- Yep, well my part, I've finished, for now.
3) Do more fire.
-- did, stopped a little now.
4) Make those glow videos I've been thinking about.
-- DONE
5) Make that contact video I've been thinking about.
-- Not yet, had a shot at it. Need to do it again but better.
6.1) FINISH the 'blind date' routine.
-- after notebook reversals... its maybe 33% done...
6.2) FINISH 'amazing machines' routine.
-- nope
6.3) FINISH 'pachebels canon' routine.
-- nope
7) Think more on writing down ideas and choreographies for multiple people.
-- A little.
8) Work out doubles in my head.
-- A Little, LAB 3 helped with that.
9) More club contact. + Club Routine.
-- No routine, but a lot of club contact...
10) Make a movement workshop.
-- still working on it.
11) Be more like Wes Peden and Julian Wong...
-- I'll always be working on this...
12) Go to the CJC.
-- trying to find out when it is.
13) Learn Handstands and Aerials.
-- Done a little work... but not enough.

These goals are way different to last years... Hmmmm...

Hmm.

1) Finish routine
2) Perfect back spin matrix thing the 'other' way
3) Make reinforced staff for acrobalance
4) Get six-step/steve solid both ways
5) Work on other breakdance stuff inc. freezes... three-step matrix?!
6) More leg/hip/whole body work
7) Work on freezes with one staff end planted
8) Work out how the f**k to integrate tribal fusion and contact
9) Do some stuff which... isn't contact... like... doubles n shiz... I guess.... Maybe not though.
10) Ooh and contact back-walkover. Big one.

as for an update?

1) theraputic stretches and stuff
yes. back still twinges but a month and a half of daily exercises has me almost back to normal.
2) more fire with the staff
no. Me dont lika de cold, so havent done much outside play.
3) learn a bunch of leg pinches, wraps, and kickups
learned a couple on those rare warm winter days, but Im hoping that spring will get me there.
4) re-learn the matrix (Im sure I'll be awful once Im able to bend that much again)
YAY! I picked it up easier than I thought would happen. Oddly enough, I think practicing that helped aid my back's healing.
5) practice double staff, especially contact doubles
yes on the practice, no on the contact part
6) clean up all fishtails
not much progress.
7) start saving for a new toy: 3-piece fire staff, glow doubles, OR Buugeng (cant make up my freaking mind)
8) try to make it back to Ireland for some video shooting.
not a chance anymore. World's problems are starting to affect us too. Im going to be making new goals.

2009 Staffy Goals

I guess I didn't make any yet,

1) Finish working on quadrant staff workshop before firedrums, gotta play with more them, should have a video out soonish.

2) Finish Meggies and me's dvd, although I don't think I really have to do anything at this point

3) Finish off and polish Aileen and me's staff routine.

4) Make a some kind of staff solo...I think this might have been a goal for the past three years.

5) Play more with tosses, get my three staff shower solid.

6) Make a new doubles routine with someone...old one is, well, a little old

7) Continue working on footwork things, maybe lift a leg every now and then.

8) Finish up staffy type video with Bri.

9) Divert some of my juggle attention to staff

10) Lock in all that foot contact stuffs...statics, fishtails, would be about time.

I'll check back in, in a month or so,

1) Work on variations of the base contact moves in the other direction.

2) Learn how to do more doubles contact with my 3' doubles.

3) Clean up body rolls to foot fishtails... mostly by learning how to do foot fishtails proper.

4) Learn how to do a meast matrix from a prayer steve while keeping my hands in prayer.

5) Elbow pops on my knees like in that feicha video.

6) Watch more baton videos and clean up my fujimi rolls.

7) Learn how to be an effective teacher, and teach a class at firedrums.