Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
I live in a world of infinite possibilities.
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
"Moo," said the happy cow.
More useless information courtesy of Rev...
Confusing the masses, one post at a time...
"Obviously, you're not a golfer.."- The Dude
"Buy the ticket... Take the ride..." -Raoul Duke
"FEMA has never done catastrophe planning..."-Michael Brown
"Moo," said the happy cow.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Let's turn those old bridges we crossed into ashes.
We'll blaze a new trail,
and torch the rough patches.
-Me
If you're not confused, you're not thinking about things hard enough.
UYI OLDSKOOL
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
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coleman said[qb]
fishtails ... there would be no noticable difference in the path the stick takes from a normal figure 8 spin.[/qb]
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
"Moo," said the happy cow.
Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.
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In my opinion ~ if you spin for anyone but yourself you will impress upon no one. The Poi Flow through your Mind. The skill is in unifying your Mind to control the poi Directly.
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
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An audience can be interested all they want but since they don't know what to look for they will not catch some of the extreme subtleties in the differences of what we do.
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Hyperloops and airwraps...they seem to look like tangles no matter how you do them
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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But an interested and observant audience will pretty much always appreciate technical difficulty with relation to coordination and physical feats, without any need for prior knowledge.
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erm, yeah. If they didn't look like a tangle then you'd have missed...
if you mean they always look messy, then you haven't seen them performed well.
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
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I have had people offer to marry me, tell me they wanted to be like me when they grew up and ask for autographs for routines the tech spinners would concider beginner and rudimentary.
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to the point where I hate to spin around other spinners for fear of the criticism
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And for the record, the poi don't flow through my mind. They are so ingrained into my body memory that many moves are automatic and flow in a very controlled way without my even sparing a brain cell on them. To me, that is my ideal of flow and challenge in poi, whether on or off the stage.
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it is my job to make it interesting to the audience, not interesting to me on stage
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In a five beat the nuance is in the wrist. Do you really expect someone sitting 10 feet, or more, away to notice that?
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Hyper and air look like tangles.
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...they will not catch some of the extreme subtleties in the differences of what we do.
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It takes alot of technical skill in a very different way to be a performer.
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And I need to add that it takes a tremendous talent/skill to really present it to the audience in a way they appreciate.
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I know that I like to learn some of the harder moves to challenge myself, even if I never use them on a stage.
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Moves I find don't make an impact, no matter how much you do them..
Hyperloops and airwraps...they seem to look like tangles no matter how you do them.
Anything over basic beat (meaning 5 or less).
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Performing is about dynamic presentation.
Technical is challenging your own boundaries.
Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
Hilary
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'The goal must be to do the most technical moves with utmost Flow'
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'The goal must be to do the most technical moves with utmost Flow'
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And I need to add that it takes a tremendous talent/skill to really present it to the audience in a way they appreciate
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Dude i could rave for hours about how my people invented poi and how they have a life of their own and a sex (mostly they are female) and... and ...and... but that is my belief and i dont impose it on anyone, and to tell the truth im sick of this word "ego".
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
"Moo," said the happy cow.
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Moves I find don't make an impact, no matter how much you do them.
Hyperloops and airwraps...they seem to look like tangles no matter how you do them.
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without fail I have heard "It was great till you tangled", not only aimed at me but aimed at other spinners. Smaller circles can be achieved other ways...
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however (in my personal experience) hyperloops and airwraps done properly look beautiful ...
the fact that a tangle done well will often not look like a tangle at all is the whole point for me.
they remain the only way i've found to get decent spirals into my spinning.
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
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