Melbourne, sunday twirling.

newbie here, i'm wondering what stuff there is on in Melbourne that i can watch or participate in soon, and where can i buy poi stuff in Melbourne?

chrisday,
www.juggleart.com is prolly ur best choice in melbourne. if u want u can just go to hippy shops or even under the swanston street bridge on sundays at that market. for watching, learinin and participating, this session and the edinburgh gardens sessions are the best. i see you've already had a look round both of the forums so come along, everyones friendly so dont be shy. hope to see you soon

byebye

Dont buy poi stuff from Juggleart. They only sell wire poi, and frankly I wouldn't use it.
Buy poi from here, Home of Poi. The products are good, and the shipping is relatively cheap and certainly quick. The best value is the cathedral head with ball chain poi.
Sorry I couldn't make it to Sunday night, I got called into work.

Edinburgh is a good night for showing off, Sundays at Alexandra gardens is a better night for learning. (Better lit, starts earlier.)

***About this weekend***
This weekend is the St Kilda festival, so a few of us are meeting down there Sunday arvo. At the moment it will be 7pm, down at the grassed area near St Kilda baths. Everyone is welcome to join us.

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Dont buy poi stuff from Juggleart. They only sell wire poi, and frankly I wouldn't use it.

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buy whatever poi feels right for you chris. If you like jugglearts gear go for it.
Personally I like the ball chain that Hop use, but I started with cable.
Good luck Chris~~~!!!

Yeah I started with wire poi as well. Actually they were bought from juggleart.
Honestly who sticks with wire poi though?

from personal experience, or at least accordin to me, the chain poi from under swanston st bridge on sundays are grouse cos they have nice fat heavy wicks so u can go a bit slower. handy. but once again, whatever u like. go round to shops, ask to have a go, or just go to a gathering and ask.

hope to see many on sunday, im gonna try doin a bit o my fire eating which ive been learnin for a few months but havent yet tried at a gathering. could be interesting.

bye all

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I'll b there sunday night but wont be at st kilda fest

so i want to get a big session in this week (its rob by the way. not that i realy think people remember me ) and i have a mate who is realy keen to learn

is there much chance of people getting there early?
i remember the first week was earlyish? is this how it still is?
should it be a big turn out?

wire, chain and ballchain have their fans and non-believers.
best to trust your own experience and ask for a test spin if it's possible at these melbourne fire-thingy-meets

Back to normal this weekend. Jo and Dave are back so hopefully there will be a good crew this Sunday. See ya all there.

cant come for a while, got skool, but the long weekend in march i will be there will fuel a plenty, stayin till i miss my train n have to wait till 4am. cant wait but till them im gona be bored.
cyas all soon

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Hiya I'm in Melbourne at the mo, and could wonder if anyone could tell me when the next meet is?

gday batwalker. next meeting is on wednesday, over in the edinburgh gardens of Fitzroy. starts around dark. the next sesh at the alexandra gardens is on sunday though, accross the road form the national gallery, the three raised palm trees next to the hammer throw statue.
hope to see you there
byebye

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foomp

this weekend was simply lovely

nice to meet everyone (again in some cases)

So awesome to meet up for a spin with old faces remembered and new ones to do just that. (that made sense in my head when i said it, really it did)
Tis good to be back

Sorry I couldn't make it last Sunday. I will certainly attend this Sunday. I'll even bring the portable sound system this time.

yay im going to be there this time...i get to meet everyone woo cant wait!

Big chundery spew.
Had a great time meeting everyone last sunday was looking forward to this and next sunday to get ta know yall better, but alas I must work this sunday and next week i've been invited to the Port Fairy folk festival.
(the portable sound system is good idea)

P.S.-DON'T FORGET THE AEROGUARD!

David or I normally bring a portable stereo when we attend. Be better to have some drummers though.

I should be back down there. I need some practice before up coming performances. And i'll grab some aerogaurd or bushman from work to stop the mozzies.

Hey, they weren't that bad last time I was there. Maybe I just smell too much for their liking.

Hmm, i wanna come, and i can but not tonight, i was thinking maybe next sunday, but two tribes is on them and alot of people will be going (not me ) i dont want to get there and find it empty

Just a suggestion, if anyone hasn't thought of it already, how about we do something labour day weekend, or moomba, it should be pretty cool as there will be heaps of people around on the sunday night anyway.

sakura- there will be people there next sunday, im bringing a group with me it should be good, two tribes or not.

Cool, where abouts in the gardens is it held?

Well i'll be there again. Making the most of that weekend. So it should be fun.

As to where it is held its in the Queen Vic Gardens just opposite the Arts center and National Gallery. And there is three palm trees on a mound and we twirl on east side of the mound.

Just come around 7 or 7:30 and by then there should be quite a few people there by then.

alexandra gardens pete,
cant wait to see all, seems as if a lot of new faces have popped up scince ive been last, school makes my twirling less frequent, but tis moomba, tis a long weekend and i have a heaps of fuel. should be good,
see u all soon

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Alexandra gardens are the ones next to the yarra, the Victoria gardens are the ones on the south side of Alexandra avenue which is where the three palm's is.

And with moomba it will be great but in previous years that area has beem used for the freeza stage. So im not too sure if it will be accessable this year or being used again.

Gotta say ***pete's right. The queen vic gardens actually house the three palm tree where we spin.
Sorry about the lack of battery power in my stereo. Shall buy some new batteries during the week.
I've hear on TV ad's that there will be a fire performance at the moomba festival. Does he mean fire-twirling? If so, who's doing the performance?

For what's on at Moomba check out:
http://www.thatsmelbourne.com.au/content.asp?Document_ID=87162

The fire performance is actually just fireworks on the yarra.

i have a feeling that our spot may be taken cos of moomba this weekend. They're showing a moonlight cinema on palm lawn. the map doesnt show where palm lawn is so we could be up the proverbial creek.
finding out more info now, but ill keep all posted. in the event that its taken, where do we go??

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