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Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Greetings All,
New to the forums and new to fire poi - trying to set me up with a pair as we speak. started poi in greece 2 months ago when i met some girls who made them as a living. bean bag with string and ribbon. they travel around europe or whereva their visa permits them and they make poi and do occasional fire shows for money and so essentially food and shelter. they are true poi believers and i thank them for making my journey more fulfilling.
i am working in england but will return to south africa in december.
thank you for your time
FoeHammer
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Running hippy spinning lemming
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Location: Scotland
Am i first????!!!!
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Fool
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Location: Cornwall, UK
Yeah lemming, you were. This time.
Foehammer. Where abouts in the UK are you staying?
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Hello and welcome to HoP!!!
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Welcome to HoP Foehammer!
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Location: australia, tasmania
welcome (late reply)my introduction to poi was from luke (from the UK) who was backpacking around australia, doing shows where he could and teaching poi to people on the beach, making enuf $$$$ to keep traveling, sounds great eh.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Foe Hammer, Foe Hammer?
where have I heard that before?
I almost think it is from the "Dungeons and Dragons" game, but I never met a South African who has played that...
well, anyway - Hi!
I lived in South Africa for a year last year - not so far from Jo'berg. I wish I had been in Capetown though. Do you know other spinners there in capetown (like John Peers), and about the wednesday (thursday?) night burns at the Reggea Hut in Observatory and the saturday beach burns?
-v-
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37 posts
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Reggea hut? do you mean 'Cool Runnings' in Obz? Actually you may find the name more particular in a LOTR film, or the books rather. it pays to read once again.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
oh yeah, cool runnings! sorry - got a crossed wire there with a good jamacan food place on another continent!
ah yes, "foehammer" and LOTR.... I have to admit that I haven't bothered to re-read LOTR in the last 5 years...
-v-
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37 posts
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
not that you Have to read LOTR, but just reading in general, as oppoesed to mindless chat show banter and reality tv shows.
i will definitley be returning there once i arrive back in south africa, beach and bob marley music, drinking with old friends, reunion time.
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Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
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4 posts
Location: south africa kzn
hey where all the players in sa
poi -powered by people
poi and staffun academy kzn sa
setting south africa alight for the last 5 years
what goes around comes around. unless you're into stalls.
4,030 posts
Location: Bali, Australia
Hi there Poifun_academy. Does your name mean you are running an academy? And what is kzn? A town? If youve just registered, maybe tell us a bit more about yourself and what you are looking for/offering?
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Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
KZN is a province (Kwa-Zulu Natal) on the east coast. (Durban is in it if that helps any...)
Welcome Foehammer! CT seems to be the most active centre in ZA.
Just my luck to be on the other side of the country....
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Fire Guy
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Location: Austria
Hey Guys
Im from JHB South Africa and Im completely addicted
My gilfried recons that my staves are permanently wielded to my hand 
which is kinda true.Anyhows cause my friends and I love poi so much we started a local SA fire community (FIRE DESIRE) (not trying to show up HOP.. dont think that can be done
)But cut a long story short our aim is to help promote and grow the art of fire dancing in SA. We host regular fire events in and around JHB and advertise any fire events we find out about.
Every Wednesday is Fire Night at Cool Runnings Fourways from about 8PM up.
Come check us out www.firedesiresa.blogspot.com
or search for our facebook group - Fire Desire - Fire poi and staff community
Give me Fuel! Give me FIRE, Give me that which I DESIRE!
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
I doubt that you are going to have much luck here.
I am the only active Saffrican (unless the others are very well-hidden) and I am never near JHB often enough.
All the best though. Would be nice to get a better networked community....
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Flame Wielder
20 posts
Location: South Africa, JHB
Hey my Fellow South Africans smile
Fire Desire Poi & Staff Community is a South African based Poi Community that I help Run. We have been working hard at building the website and run regular poi/staff related events.
Come check us out
www.FireDesire.co.za
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newbie
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Location: uk
wow holas join the insanity
hope u have fun at HoP i am 
so join us 
never say good bye... Why? because good bye is gor when your never seeing them again. x
Destroyer of ceiling light fixtures
433 posts
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
So you're in SA now then? You still spinning? I'm looking for people to play fire with since the Cape Town Cool Runnings thing died.
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Destroyer of ceiling light fixtures
433 posts
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Originally Posted By: aston
I am the only active Saffrican (unless the others are very well-hidden)
*Re-activating Ninja jumps out of hiding spot*
BOO!
Seriously though. We need to network more.
Ask me about flow, and prepare to listen for the rest of your life, or tell me to stop talking eventually...
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
Originally Posted By: doubleFlameHelixOriginally Posted By: aston
I am the only active Saffrican (unless the others are very well-hidden)
*Re-activating Ninja jumps out of hiding spot*
BOO!
Seriously though. We need to network more.
Not arguing in the slightest. Like I mentioned elsewhere, it seems that I am in a bit of a dead zone either way (Grahamstown is myself and I think two other people [next year no one, since we are all leaving I think] and I know of no one up the North Coast.)
I think CT and Jozi have most of the activity, but even then. *shrug*
Bruno's site, if it takes off, may be a useful rallying point, but how many people will find it I do not know.
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Destroyer of ceiling light fixtures
433 posts
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Yeh I know what you mean. I'm in CT, and even here I'm struggling to find people to spin with, other than the FireTribe. All the parties here have suddenly gone all anti-fire since that accident at (I think it was Easter) Vortex. I was all psyched up to play with fire at Rocking the Daisies. Organised with FireTribe to join in and everything, but in the end the official types stopped them from playing (even though they were asked to play in the beginning), so I never got my chance.
It was supposed to be my new years resolution to get back into fire this year. Looks like I might miss that deadline.
I'm definitely playing at Coffee Bay from the 7th to 10th Jan though.
I just joined Bruno's site tonight. It does look pretty useful for getting us Saffa spinners together.
Ask me about flow, and prepare to listen for the rest of your life, or tell me to stop talking eventually...
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
Did not hear about that (accident).
Although from what I have been able to gather, safety standards have been pretty lax in any case.
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Destroyer of ceiling light fixtures
433 posts
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
It was 2009 in Cape Town so maybe you wouldn't've heard up there in GTown. I only heard recently myself when I started getting back into fire, and parties.
https://www.capetownalive.co.za/blogs/2904-fire-at-cape-town-easter-vortex-trance-party.html
Since then safety standards have been much less lax. It's really
things up for fire spinners. Now most parties down here won't allow any open flames at all. Ask me about flow, and prepare to listen for the rest of your life, or tell me to stop talking eventually...
Destroyer of ceiling light fixtures
433 posts
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
P.S. We can't even play on the beaches here. The police stopped that a few years back when the spectator gatherings got too big and out-of-hand. It was basically just a huge party by then.
Seriously. Cape Town, pretty much the performing arts capital of the country and there's like nowhere to play with fire.
Ask me about flow, and prepare to listen for the rest of your life, or tell me to stop talking eventually...
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
That is a bummer.
I meant safety standards by spinners though, although that might be due to laid-back hippy Grahamstown as well.
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
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