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Location: Europe
Hi there,
I´m new to this forum, so please let me introduce myself real quick.
I´m 26 yr old girl from Germany and I´m here in the hope to chat about a few new moves. Right now I´m working on the behind-the-back stuff with my poi, and I kinda knocked me out a couple of times...;) ouch...I´m into poi for a couple of years now (four or five), but I never REALLY tried anything behind my back! I just started with that about two weeks ago!
You can see me and my poi-show across middle and southern Germany on various medieval markets. Just in case s.o. will be around that area in Summer
it´s always fun to have s.o. with a 2nd pair of poi around!! 
Do we have acrobatic people here who tried stuff like flips or so with poi?? Wanna share your experience?
I´m also into stick-fighting, and we now started to put up a show, fighting with burning sticks.
When I´m not practising I´m a student, I write text-adventures for a computer game and I´m about to write my first novel
so you see...it´s alot of writing;)Take care!
Wildgirl
EDITED_BY: wildgirl (1107785964)
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
j0! congradulations, because i anti-hate j00!!
you sound like cool people, so you'll fit in well here. good luck with your fire-fighting, sounds cool and dangerous -James
"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
*walks in with pizza box*
hey, and welcome to HoP
would you like some pizza?
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Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
Hello
Do you like the colour pink?
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Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
Hello and welcome to HoP!!!
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14 posts
Location: Europe
Hey,
thank you!
Yep, I got always room for pizza
Well, pink...I´m more some kind of a dark person
But, how could I hate pink?? *g*Gotta look around and read some posts here now!
Take care!
HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
Hi Wildgirl Welcome to HoP
Would you like some Spaghetti Bolognase and a massage?
Anyway in terms of acrobatics with spinning its not really about poi more staff but try checking out these two threads [Old link] and here
have fun
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Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
uh oh there is no hope for me now! I'm never going to get your name right. Now we have a War Child, a Wild Child and a Wildgirl....... pfffffft
to HoP and my dyslexia. Please don't feel offended if I call you by one of the other above names by mistake at some time. Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
*walks in with mroe pizza and supplies wildgirl with as much pizza as she wants*
beware of the mushrooms.... they tend to be a bit magic...
We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
Star Trekker
1,733 posts
Location: Cheshire, United Kingdom
Hi Wildgirl
and to HoP from a fellow Wild person 
keep us posted on progress with your novel - what's it about?
'The last rays of crimson on the spindle tree as the cerise fruit splits and reveals its orange seeds in a gloriously clashing colour scheme no-one would ever dare to wear'
Euonymous Europeus
14 posts
Location: Europe
Thankyou Pyrowill,
I´m not very good with staff
so I´ll try to do some flexi stuff with poi - as far as that is possible. This is what I try right now: 5-beat weave while bending backward like limbo-dancing til my knees and back are on the floor...then get back up...
the problem here is, to get the 5-beat "flat" enough so that it won´t hit the ground. Used to do this with the butterfly, but I´m getting bored
Well, I got time to practise and try til May! Wild child, my novel is a fantasy-story about a mixed-race ogre and a girl who find out a few ugly things that happend in the past of their country and now they gotta keep a huge army of Ogres from attacking the human countries who want revenge - and making a bad mistake. Unfortunately all the help they got is a bunch of thieves and robbers, two prostitutes and the best headhunters on this side of the planet...
It´s hard to describe it all in one sentence, I hope it´s enough to give you an idea.Dammit...who ate my pizza? And where did my mushrooms go???
Oh, another question. What kind of film is the best choice for taking poi-show ( yes..or fire..) pictures??(the ASA) (I usually got NO camera on a medieval market, but I´d like to show you a few pix online! Gotta organize that!
) Some ideas how to do it best??EDITED_BY: wildgirl (1107955034)
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
*wanders in with more pizza*
here you go wildgirl
when you've finished your novel will you send me a copy?
out of curiosity, which writers inspire your work?
We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
14 posts
Location: Europe
Hi Havokist,
I can send you a copy, that won´t be a problem. Right now I´m on page 346 of maybe 500-600 total. So you gotta be a little patient. (Oh, do you speak german? If not - I plan on getting it translated for my fiance whos American+ can´t speak german, anyway
)Its hard to say which writers inspire me, I read alot. Lately it was Juliet Marillier, Elizabeth Haydon, Terry Pratchett, McKillip, Moorcock, Wolfgang Hohlbein and Harald Evers (german), Miller Lau, Micha Pansi, Douglas Adams, Stan Nicholls, the list goes on...
Maybe it´s easier to say who I don´t like. It´s Marion Zimmer-Bradley and J.R.R. Tolkien...(yes, now I outed me...no offense meant, the LOR movies were good
)Oh, p.s. ...I just found the photo info on this page!
Take care!
I gotta go for work soon (where I can always sneak in some time for poi-twirling!! That´s why I love that job
) 2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
well i don't speak german, but if you send me a translated copy that'd be greatly appreciated, and i'm not too bothered when.
IMO, if you could combine Terry Pratchet's sadistic style of subtle comedy, and Douglas Adams's just general style of writing into one, then it would be one hell of a book, but that could be an inspiration for your next novel
keep at it and who knows what you can achieve
We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
Playing OldSchool Poi
593 posts
Location: amsterdam, Netherlands
welcome, neighbour....
looking for acro meets poi? there are some moves you can do: start with a cartwheel pickup or a backroll. for more tricks you either need a fire staff or a partner to be base for the acro stuff... somewhere here on HoP I've seen a video of a guy doing some handstands and backflips with staff, but I can't remember who it was... help anybody?
anyways: isn't poi acrobatics enough at times?
eRic.
I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman!
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
poi sometimes seems to be acrobatics for your arms
We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
Member
140 posts
Location: middle of the outback, Australia
Hey wildgirl,
hello and welcome. Hope to see you in Germany this year. have you tried the butterfly through the legs and then forward roll? Not very acrobatic but people love it...
tada for now
hm, pinecones, my favourits!
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
2nded havokist, a pratchett-adams combination would be wonderfull.
*snatches a slice of pizza and jumps over the atlantic to give wildgirl a hug*
-James
"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"
Pooh-Bah
2,084 posts
Location: melbourne, victoria, australia
*wanders in, idly eating mushrooms off a slice of pizza*
hello, welcome to HoP. be careful getting a non german speaker to translate your book, you might end up with something completely different!
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
i know, my english teacher translated a german translation of an english poem, and the orignal and what he ended up with were almost opposites....
We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
16 posts
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Hola and Welcome from a fellow newbie!
Light, Love and Laughter,
Pen
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
BUMP
hows the novel coming along?
We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
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