Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Written by: from that article
Because Isaacs is self-taught and at a level of expertise that's beyond many of her peers', it's hard to find anyone qualified or willing to give a critical account of her practice. Nick Woolsey, a professional poi artist who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, knows Isaacs but has philosophical reservations about commenting on her practice. He says he's so critical of his own performance that he's not comfortable judging someone else's; he also questions the standards by which poi can, at this point, be judged.
"I think all of us are still beginners," says Woolsey, who won the Circle of Light award last year and just opened his own poi/yoga/tai chi school in Canada. "There are not a lot of people who have taken it to higher levels. That's why I'm [considered] so good at it. It's such a small pool."
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Written by: mcp
Would a critical account be something like: "When I saw her on COL4 I laughed, and so did my friends, at her really incredibly bad poi and her supposed dance 'style'...To say she was a level of expertise beyond many of her peers is either a blatent falsehood or a creative interpretation of the word peers to mean only people who have only just picked up poi."?
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Getting to the other side
Love is the law.
Getting to the other side
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
Love is the law.
Eat when you're hungry
Sleep where it's dry
No one is ever what they seem
Gabriel King - The Wild Road
Getting to the other side
HoP Posting Guidelines
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
If you can answer YES to these 4 questions then you may post a reply.
Written by: flash fire
whether her templeofpoi name and URL is a tawdry attempt at belittling homeofpoi name and URL
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
Written by: SpitFire
The article focuses on Glitter Girl, and her business....it's not an article on the world of poi, and again, I wonder if the writer has a great deal of exposure to the world of poi? If she doesn't, and she focused solely on the business Glitter Girl runs in San Francisco, then I don't think it's a big deal that no mention is made of some of the other spinners in the world. The mgazine is a San Francisco magazine, too...something else to keep in mind.
¡Viva La Pacha Mama!
First intention, then enlightenment..
Ars Pyronomica
" Life is programmed. Whether death is programmed or not is yet to be determined."
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
¡Viva La Pacha Mama!
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
HoP Posting Guidelines
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
If you can answer YES to these 4 questions then you may post a reply.
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
Getting to the other side
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Written by: mcp
If she thinks it's going to be an olympic sport she's no chance of getting a gold. Plus an olympic sport generally has to be difficult to do. How would the gymnasts feel if they got a gold for the overall champion, having put some 20+ years of hard training into the sport, and then some punk poister gets a gold for poi? I would be annoyed. But then I'm annoyed that tabletennis is an olympic sport. (How would football players feel if suboteo was an olympic sport?)
I think it was that one comment that made me think she was nuts.
I'm glad the poi world now has a robert heart.
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
Using the keywords [sfweekly article poi] we found the following existing topics.