OLD HOP HEADS V.S NEW HOP HEADS

AAAAAAWWWWWWWW Man!

there are pictures in there of cass and lolli together.....

<runs off for cold shower>

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Oh - found the link:
http://groups.msn.com/PoiStaffandallthingsfirey/homeofpoimugshotgallery.msnw

All well and good, you'll need a hotmail account or MSN passport but that's it - well, apart from a photo of yourself.

bump. Feeling tres nostalgic.

FYI - the link to Cass's pics doesn't seem relevant any more. Only has (what seems to me to be) pics of a gay couple travelling in Italy.

Why are you feeling nostalgic?

You approaching a birfday or sunfink?

I remember when they introduced the rule that you had to be registered to post and the only person to complain about it was the guy that had trolled the boards enough to cause it

HAven't heard from him in ages. I still have his email addy. Maybe i should drop him a line....

Haha, time to break out the walking canes and ear hair trimmers for the old skool HoPers.

Just kidding, I only wish I knew about poi back then. All those years I wasted.

what a lovely thread! as an almost newbie - i can't believe how many have registered since i did a few months back! - but a definite oldie I totally sympathise with you mtbeer.

But then the buzz i got from just picking up poi for the first time, liking it, learning more, first burn , being part of the amazing HoP community both virtual and in the flesh is just a kick-start for the rest of my life.

I'm glad I came to it late cos I'd probably have moved on by now if I was younger and reading this thread gives me hope that the BTB weave isn't beyond me if these guys struggled with it not so very long ago. And you old skoolers are so right - get the basics right first - I still find it easier to do a 5beat than a butterfly!

loadsa love to the post-teens

really nice reading this thread. i've poked around in the old poi moves threads too and it's hard to believe there was a time not that long ago when people wondered if btb or 5 bt weaves were possible! That just blows my mind. That's one of the things I'm loving about the spinning world, this sense that we're all creating something new together...

spin on beautiful peeps...

what's a weave? (bump)

It's like being on an archaelogical dig, reading this old thread! Wow, Fossils!

we newbies have discovered new tricks also. we now have poiggling (bows to devkev) and many other fancy jobbies. fresh blood fresh ideas (and fresh burns and bruises) Wow. old or what.

well done bender this is a great thread to dig up a great way to bring old and new together

Wow, I saw this and I was like... myst... man i havn't seen that kid in ages, three years now i think... whenever dom came to america....

Crazy times.

AT play I heard DEVKEV being referred to as "the responsible sensible looking one who can do everything"

I'm neither old skool or nu skool.....I must be in middle skool or something!

group hug everyone (I remember when there was no group hug smiley and you had to just do this one lots of times

... great thread.. well bumped.. but oldskool newbies blah blah blah. Viva Home of Poi and its old and new members alike.

love you all

and I love the MSN groups mug shots - some of us look SO YOUNG (bovril, me.. and little fluffy napalm fairy.. the picture of innocence)

I know Devkev is old skool. but I learned to poiggle before I knew Hop existed. i was just bowing down to him as he's bl00dy good at it. but I think i have stuff he doesn't ...yet. just pointing out class when I see it. and stating newbies don't just learn. they can have a fresh outlook on the whole scene because they havn't found stuff that can't be done...so they try!!

I also have a sloppy Stafapoiggle (poiggling with a staff - see gallery) which i have never seen done...needs work but recon there are lots of disciplines which can be done at the same time without it getting too messy

combination tricks do indeed rock
sounds to me like you need a rolabola or a unicycle mynci

kev is like the francis brunn of poi - he just needs a pair of tighter trousers and he's there


cole. x

*wonders vaguly how many posting members there are hmmmm*

im off to try and do some foot poi

i will be doing foutains by play2

Devkev is fairly nu skool. When i first met him a few years ago at glastonbury he didn't even really know what HoP was. He only joined last year sometime.

Dave in Texas poiggled years ago. He is also the one, as far as I know, who was the first to get a pair of power skips when they were new and poi on those too.

I wonder what happened to him.

So, two years ago I was called Mother Nature in this thread. Makes me wonder who I am now!

And holy crap...how fast HoP grew if there were only 5 thousand regged in 2003!

I'm kinda impressed to see how many old skoolers are still bumping about. This did make me giggle.

well everyones old skool compared to me. only been juggling a year. and that only about once a week

am i classed as old or new lol!

im definatly new skool and proud of it

more to learn that way

too true, theres always something new.

*remembers when learning the weave was impossible*

think im middle aged (3years is quite a long time), but newbie here!!

I'd say I'm an old skool spinner while being HoP new skool.

Been spinning weaves for 6 years, and now I've got into poi again I'm happy spinning circles

I've got a new group hug smiley

I sometimes feel older than i am on this place, I know ive only been here since august but everytime i meet ppl, they seem to be like hey YOUR pyrowill, its a bit odd, and likewise they find it odd i cant 5 beat weave, like they expected me to be really at poi or something

but pele you are a goddess among Hoppers