2009 Staff Goals

My staff goal for 2009!

1. Get more time for practice

2. Learn how to teach good and get more contact staffer in Japan.

3. Look for group contact staff performance crew.

4. Make nicer staff video.

5. Practice more acrobatic contact skills

6. Learn more foot contact

7. Clean up my double contact and practice more staff on staff.

8. Practice more triple contact.

9. Play with more isolation double and practice double pattern with others.

10. Learn multi staff juggling.

11. Do more shows.

12. More daytime practice rather than fire.

13. Travel more to meet staffer around the world.

14. Become flow stick geek.

That's about it I think... i might add some more when I know what.

1. More contact practice -- Its been atleast an hour a day
2. More tosses practice -- Not yet, its cold.
3. Learn to teach better... -- Have some scheduled classes to teach
4. Make shorter staffs -- Soon
5. An east coast doubles video -- Summer project
6. Teach at firedrums -- Don't know if i'm going to do that one
7. Meet Meast and Malaman grin -- FD
8. Fire promo -- Footage in the mail to my house

March/April update:

I'm gonna change my goals a lot:

1) Subtitles for DVD
2) Do more fire.
3) Col / Contact video...
4) FINISH the 'blind date' routine.
4.1) I made a couple new routines that need more polishing... need more and quicker thou...
5) Think more on writing down ideas and choreographies for multiple people. Yep, still wanna do this.
6) More club contact. + Club Routine.
7) Be more like Wes Peden and Julian Wong...
-- I'll always be working on this...
8) Get some stuff solid that is currently ridiculous.
9) Dance. or Change my movement.
10) Make a staff that's good for crazy stuff.
11) More Doubles Contact.
12) Practise the tiger roll with a ball.

+ get back to woodford...

1 goal (a bit late i know)
Get backcrosses clean with 3 staffs.

yay! not even halfway through the year and already my goals coming more into fruition..

1- well - more staff anyways
2- coming along nicely
3- well ive got inversions to play with now (thanks steve!)
4- i am confident by summer there will be at least one beautifully choreo'd routine
5-we'll come back to..
6- working on fishtail goodness

i think i need better body strength and agility for 5 so im adding in
7. get into shape! also..
8. get gammy arm to stop being so gammy..

whats the tiger roll?

it's a stupid roll that's gonna take me maybe 5 years to get smooth. And it'll just use my hand. And end in the hard thumb balance. And once I can do it, I'll need to do nothing else ever.

better late than never

1)learn enough moves in prayer to do a routine entirely in prayer
2)keep doing yoga as its keeping me safe from muscle strains
3)dual fishtails
4)sort out the annoying tendency of planes to move from vertical to horizontal when doing multiple turns in contact
5)learn more ground moves
6) get the neckspin cartwheel thing working
7)be able to do handstands (to smooth out the cartwheels)
8)explore footwork a little more, with less staggering around in circles
9)find some new double throws patterns to keep my busy beyond the two staff shower
10)find some better arm/hand positions when contacting

Happy birthday guy!

4) That's a never ending quest.

I should add turn the other way to my goals...

Thanks meg! I guess I've got one goal per year for the rest of my life now

one more - ish
11)look for more crossovers between hoop and staff

Just a few:

1. See if I can get a buzzsaw-esque move down with a 5 ft. staff.

2. Spin double 5 ft. staffs (well)

3. Make my own

1) Get a new staff (thank you KLM) -Done.
2) Get Buugeng -Done.
3) Get back in shape with doubles -Done.
4) Learn contact moves the other way - managed neck pivots, angels, steve, prayer steve.
5) Continuous Jesuses -not yet.
6) Matrix -not yet.
7) Fishtails in all directions, antispin fishtails, some other fishtail variations - i managed fishtails in both directions with both hands, no variations or antispins yet.
8) Be able to do neck combos continuously. -Kinda done, needs some work, and i need to learn direction changes.
9) work on body movement (be more like banyan) -it's improving, but i still need a lot of work.
10) go to england again -looks like I'm gonna be too broke to go.
11) perform more. loads more. -been performing a bit more, but thanks to the credit crunch not too many gigs.
12) new routines in everything. -doubles routine halfway done, poi and contact staff routines need to be rebuilt with new music.
13) learn 3 staffs. -I managed 72 catches today. need to work on reverse cascade.

1. Make my own beginning practice staff. Done

2. Create a how to make a beginning practice staff guide. Done

3. Submit it to HOP for the library. Doing that tonight

4. Get it published. Hopefully lol

5. Learn basic staff moves.

6. Same as above but on weak ass left side

7. Ditto above two, but backwards (apparently all you have to do is turn around lol)

8. Move jobs in August from Anglesey to Lincoln and find a group over that way that can help me develop some more and that I can take my 4yr old along to.

9. Find time to do all of this whilst learning new job and looking after 4yr old and looking after brand new baby girl, who is due 10 days after new job starts.

10. Have a beer tonight (this was only put in to satisfy my paranoia that a list isnt a list unless it goes to ten)

Jay

completed one of mine in my first gig this year. completed my first ever contact and staff on staff doubles act on fire. I even slipped in a couple of moves I've never done on fire before just to "feel" the difference. was all good

so
1) Properly choreograph full contact doubles set.
2) teach simon to count
3) make some new 3ft sticks to replace stolen ones.
4) tighten up double fishtails to the point I can Always do them not just on good days with good sticks.
5) teach simon to count
6) get some more music to spin to
7) get creative
8) teach simon to count
9) teach more doubles to certain people

1. Make my own beginning practice staff. Done

2. Create a how to make a beginning practice staff guide. Done

3. Submit it to HOP for the library. Done
4. Get it published. Hopefully lol(waiting grrr)
5. Learn basic staff moves. Hmmm getting there slowly, my head hurts a bit now
6. Same as above but on weak ass left side, see above my head hurts a lot now lol

7. Ditto above two, but backwards (apparently all you have to do is turn around lol)<<no chance as yet
8. Move jobs in August from Anglesey to Lincoln and find a group over that way that can help me develop some more and that I can take my 4yr old along to.

9. Find time to do all of this whilst learning new job and looking after 4yr old and looking after brand new baby girl, who is due 10 days after new job starts. I hate waiting, want to start new job now, want to hold new baby now.

10. Have a beer tonight (this was only put in to satisfy my paranoia that a list isnt a list unless it goes to ten) and my god that beer was nice, a bit of shameless advertising but Adnams Broadside is gorgeus and for the ban the car, ban the oil industry lot they do a Carbon Neutral beer aswell which is equally lovely.
Jay



If you want music to spin to whilst practising dont know how far you will get with using it on videos or for performances, but the Prodigys new album is good. And you could always try trawling myspace and internet podcasts for free stuff, Dark Compass is good for a weekly podcast plays all kinds of music.

Cheers dude, I'm looking for some new music to perform to. been thinking airwolf because it just screams action but more likely funky instrumentals or harass my producer friend to make me something special.

Check PM,

I like the Airworf idea, throw in a bit of the A-Team and some Macguyver(sp), get an 80's outfit and your onto a winner lol

I heard a Soulwax tune recently that seemed to be an Airwolf mashup, was punchy too. The DJ said it was a couple of years old, 'fraid I can't help more than that.

Staff goals for 2009:

1) get good enough with my painting pole so that I can justify buying a staff instead of more poi tools.

2) stop breaking out into random practice at work

3) remember to take the roller head off before random practice

I think 3 is arguably the most important.

2 is not such a big deal since i'm the boss.

link to picture of what i've been using:
http://www.woosterbrush.com/catalog.html

on the left side at the bottom of the menu type in the word 'sherlock' for the product search.

scroll down until you see the 'sherlock gt convertible'

The 4' to 8' works better then the 2' to 4' I have, even though it's much heavier. A buddy of mine has a real firestaff, and this paint pole is easily more then twice the weight.

dont stop the random practice! get it in whenever you can AND then add scheduled practice.

btw, staves come in a wide variety of weight. Mine is fairly light compared to a breakdown staff I've played with from a different company. MCP apparently used to have a solid aluminum staff (which had to have been super heavy). So it pays to test out all the options.


Im scratching all my previous goals and changing them:

Footwork
Dance
clean up the basics instead of learning new things.

I want to put on a smooth burn that looks competent instead of choppy. Besides which, any new moves I've been learning have been suffering because of not having those basic rolls and stuff down tight.

In the words of Meg, Im going to do it again, but this time with less .