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"Hehe, well I've bought staffs (The inner-core three piece has really held up...), but none were able to satisfy me. So I tried building one outa 3/4" aluminum pipe, a dowel, and some te..."
"morning! i found something new! it kinda works and kinda looks cool... k you know how you get those LED key ring thingy's... the ones that you click on and off not the ones you have to ..."
"I might have just passed over the color section, but where do you pick what color LED you want in the beaming poi. I know it says yellow or orange ball, but I was thinking thats the out..."
"Greetings everybody,I've been learning for about a year but just recently started spinning fire. you know words don't express how I feel now that that beautiful sound is in my ears. any..."
"Greetings! does anyone have any good way to burn off the excess wick that they hold even though you arnt burning them? like if i soaked them in ethanol and burned them would it remove..."
"yo,just replaced the old fixings (srews into wood) on my staff with quite large bolts (add nice weight to the ends) but I now find the staff gets much hotter quicker.I cant decide weath..."
"I know there used to be a topic w/this heading here, but I couldn't find it when I searched. I noticed the distinct lack of this product in HoP's shop. Will they restock and sell these ..."
"After a burn, if there's a lot of smoke coming off your wick, is it a good idea to dip it into kerosene right away in order to snuff out the smoldering kevlar? It seems that this way, t..."
"A few weeks ago I was bored with a whois client and decided to see what fire related domain names i could register. I quickly found that most of the good ones had already been taken, vi..."
"i was just thinking whislt reading some of the posts below... would it be possible to make a staff but not wrapping the kevlar around the end of the staff... but have them possibly like..."
"ok, so i have a pair of small cathedral wicks that i got to start out. they were the absolute cheapest ones i could find anywhere, and they certainly are representative of the price. no..."
"Can someone recommend which video is best to buy for intermediate moves to advanced. Thanx"
"Hello everybody! I had a great weekend spinnin' at the park. But there was one thing that I would like to see changed. A friend of mine brought the kerosene in a big jug and we set it d..."
"Basicly all I know of a toroidal vortex is that it is how a smoke ring works.Most of what I know about them is that they are a type of convection that occurs very naturally. It stabali..."
Posted: by Zoltar
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"Just having a browse through the shop this morning and I noticed that the cathedral poi head design has been modified. They no longer have the big eye bolts through the centre. This s..."
"Hello everyone! Its been a while. I have moved since last being on and now I'm in an apartment rather than a house with a garage. Right now my gear is at my friends house but I need t..."
"I live in Taiwan but I'm from the States. I recently started spinning fire Poi, and plan to keep doing it for a long time. Society in Taiwan is really relaxed, with little harassment by..."
"I've been doing poi for about a month and I know how to do quite a few moves. I never really hit myself anymore, but I'm still afraid of hitting myself in the face with a fire ball. I w..."
"Does anyone have any of these things??? I was looking on the Aerotech site and their juggling balls are just too expensive, i just can't justify that amount of money on juggling balls,..."
"Has anyone got any experience of using one of these to light poi?It looks like a high-tech flint and stone."
" Did a little searching last night, because I got tired of paying $3 for one stinking battery, and then multiplying that by 2 for each light and then by whatever for the # of toys y..."
"i looked through past discussions and i don't think anyone asked this before, and it might be stupid question anyways, but here goes. I'm working on a design for a fire toy that would r..."
"What's the typical fire staff made out of? Pipe. Only makes sense that pipe INSULATION would cover it. I didn't test this out yet but I figure if you put a few holes in a length of i..."
"Everyone knows you can make underwear last twice as long by turning them inside out, right? Does this work with wick? One of the wicks on my doubles is dying, and I thought I might b..."
"Questions, comments, criticism?"
Posted: by BetsyFord
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"Had this posted in Events but Have been told this is a more appropriate area to post ... appologies to those reading again....Hey there,Planning an event in Vancouver BC Canada, Sept 20..."
"Hey guys... I've been spinning diabolo's for quite a while and I feel the need to add a new element. It seems to me that fire is the next step! I'm reluctant to buy a fire diabol..."
"was spinning fire tonight and dicovered something funny...I spilled some lampoil on the pavement when I fueled up. And after the spinning was done I put the wicks (who was still on fire..."
"Hey all,Does anyone know of any masks or such that reduce the amount of toxic fumes inhaled whilst twirling???i was thinkig simple and along the lines of wet handkerchef or bandana wrap..."
"I was having a swing of my beloved fire poi last night and the strangest thing happened. I was about a minute into swinging, I stalled to change poi direction and the both simultaneou..."
"Hey kids. I KNOW there are a million different practice poi designs out there but I'm looking for something I can mass produce easily for poi workshops. It needs to be easy to make an..."
"I was thinking about this. There is some pretty awesome tricks done with a lasso. Why not take a kevlar rope and soak it with kero and light it on fire and so some lasso tricks? I th..."
"WHAT is better?? STaff or Poi, i know posing this question on a site that is called home of Poi and hoping for an objective answer obviously wont happen but go ahead and try I have ju..."
"A looooong time ago, I remember seeing an article with instructions for constructing wire cages for towel wicks. I tried searching, but couldn't find it anywhere. Can anyone point me in..."
"Hi all....Now I know about the search function but I dont know what an all wick poi is called....I have a small problem cause I want to make pois that are all wick exept a handle ( with..."
"Okay I'm looking to make some hand grips since the poi I plan on using are much heavier then what I'm used to. Plus I tried out a pair and I felt much more comfortable with them then w..."
"I got my cathedral heads for my birthday in late January, and have only lit them up about 6 times so far.I have tried to look after them as suggested here, but I noticed last night that..."
"So I was thinking about this. There are so many arts out there, but are we all "spinners"?Not that it really matters, but anyways...Here's my definition: "spinning" or "twirling" is de..."
Posted: by Burns
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"i am currently looking at investing in some globalls. i have checked out Globall.com, but over the summer i saw some that were RED when still but GREEN and RED when moving. Aerotech do ..."
"Forgive my laziness, but I did not feel like searching to see if this has been discussed before. I'm sure it has been and if you'd like to tell me to go search for it I will, but I thou..."
"Okay, so I ordered a pair of the 4" pure flame poi off of this site. I ordered them because they were cheap and I really didn't want to spin cathedral style (I have my reasons). So anyw..."
"Hi All,I am a bit new to all this computer stuff but have been spinning for a couple of years now, mostly poi, bit of staff.I am a design student and want to incorporate some spinning p..."
"I built a fire staff for my girlfriend a little while ago (it was one of the presents I gave her for Yule). When I discovered that aluminum pipe is very hard to come by in Kamloops I fo..."
"Hi ive been doin staff for 6 months or so and i love it. Ive been looking into other types of staff, i currently have a 5 foot aluminium staff with bout 6 inches of wick on each end, an..."
"Just been giving this a thought, as I really like the idea of a large fireball without having long wicks (i'm not really a fan of double headed poi).Then I wondered if anyone has tried ..."
"Who can I trust when buying glowsticks online in bulk? Well, not too much in bulk, but enough to occupy me for quite some time. After jumping on the led band wagon I feel the old glow..."
Posted: by Spiral_Poi
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"Hi,I'm working on a new set of pois, with a piece of 1.7 mm steel cable with a nylon core.Anyone have any idea on how to connect the fingerholds and the karabines at the end?Cheers, Mar..."
"Now that winter is in full bloom again in my half of the planet we've been spinning in pretty cold weather and I've noticed that the poi act differently depending on the outside tempera..."
"hey yalli've been using ballchain for about the last year. in that time i've gone through atleast 3 sets. i typically use the #15 (or #20), nothing smaller than #15. they only seem to l..."
"is there any good readily availible chemicals that u can put intoo the fuel to make the fire brighter or a different color"
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