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42 posts
Location: California, USA
Just had my first burn today. (April 16 2005, 8:07 PM) It was the most exhilarating thing I've ever done in my life. I burned for the first time with my friend Burning Bengal and I was accompanied by Fire Taiger (His third time) and I can't wait to do it again. I think after this I'll be going into poi even more enthusiastically than before. On a side note, a person gave us a twenty dollar bill for our performance so we can therefore claim to be professional fire performers now...As somewhat of a joke, of course.
If you strap a piece of buttered toast, butter side up, to a cats back, would the cat get stuck in mid air if thrown due to quantum indecision?
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
that's awesome, congrats! i was going to have mine this weekend, but my wicks still havne't arrived .:grumble:.
-James
"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"
comfortably numb
2,676 posts
Location: The countryside, Australia
That's exicting... I had my first poi spin the other day...and I spend just about all of the routine running away from them (while they were still in my hands). I've always been a staffer...I couldn't do poi if my life depended on it.
But yes, congratulations and well done about the $20!
.All things are beautiful if we take the time to look.
Maker of the Cheesecake
174 posts
Location: Akron, OH, USA
well, I've got my order for fire stuff set up, but I'm not allowing myself to actually place the order until my thesis is done. Because I know full well that if I order them before it's finished, it never will be...
What exactly do I have to light on fire to get you to notice me?
addict
584 posts
Location: Sunshine Coast, Australia
I've got mine on order now. Still not sure what fuel to use.
Never hold your farts in! They travel up your spine, go into your brain and that's where shitty idea's come from.
comfortably numb
2,676 posts
Location: The countryside, Australia
Kerosene
.All things are beautiful if we take the time to look.
member
109 posts
Location: Back in the Future, United Kingdom
Well Don't use Petrol anyway..... That would be foolish.......
Keep at it though...It's the business....wouldn't you agree......??
It's a very interesting story, Future Boy....!
grumpy poorly froggy
3,999 posts
Location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom
oh the memories of the first burn
Congrats you are addicted now, hehehehe
*Waits impatiently for it to get dark so can go play with fire (Too many kids in the street during the day), hmmmmmm just under 11 hours to go
Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows
Disco Inferno
160 posts
Location: Remote Western Australia Karratha
Well done, my first burn was long time ago, never loses its novelty you will find. Good luck and happy spinning.
I too am waiting for it to get dark for a burn, got me some boric acid, green fire yaaay, and extra wicking for afterwoods i hear that it does damage to your wicking.
"Only fools are positive! are you sure? Im POSITIVE"
coming to a country near you
4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
first burn, i remember there were flames. go figure..........
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley
grumpy poorly froggy
3,999 posts
Location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom
*Runs round to FireBug24's* I wanna play hehehehe
yeah i have always been told that its best to have a different wick for each substance you use
Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
I cant rember my first burn... *thinks* there have been so many *sigh* I think it was when my mum moved into her new house.. or maybe it was down in cormwall on the beach in polzeath...
my memory isnt great...about fuel... ive always used barbecue lighting fluid... good or bad?
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The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
Pooh-Bah
1,785 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
i had my first burn in over six months yesterday and it felt like the first time (does that count?!?)
so much fun
and i had my first burn on a staff to... even more fun
even the copper chopper hovered over us for a while to watch!!
member
42 posts
Location: California, USA
Thanks for the responses (and so quick too...) I made my poi myself and they worked fine. Of course, I also took all necessary safety precautions. Poi ingrediants: Dog chain cut to the right length, hand towel and bailing wire wrapped around an eyebolt set at end of chain. Kerosene for fuel. Good burnings.
If you strap a piece of buttered toast, butter side up, to a cats back, would the cat get stuck in mid air if thrown due to quantum indecision?
105 posts
I just wanted to add that i was there. Much Fun! and burning bengal (bb) hit him self in the balls with a lit poi, OUCH. any way it was fun as hell, it was my third burn and it just keeps getting better. and we really did make the poi out of dog chain, eyebolts, towel, and bailing wire. it works suprisingly well. they don't last as long as kevlar wicks i'm sure, granted i have yet to try, but it works when you can't afford a kevlar wick or just can't wait for them to arrive or what ever.
relaxing The quest for poi perfection may bring much enlightenment...
and burns
OOUUUUCCCHHHHIIIEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
with added berries
1,365 posts
Location: Manchester, England (UK)
When I read the title I thought you meant you'd burnt yourself!
Arr the first burn!, a year later and I'm still as terrified of them as I was then, IF NOT MORE!
Live like there is no tomorrow,
dance like nobody is watching
and hula hoop like wiggling will save the world.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
member
42 posts
Location: California, USA
In my opinion, the terror of the burn is what makes it that much more enjoyable! The rush of it all is like nothing else.
If you strap a piece of buttered toast, butter side up, to a cats back, would the cat get stuck in mid air if thrown due to quantum indecision?
24 posts
Location: California
saturday was the most exciting thing i have ever done, the rush of the burning poi past my head, the sound of the fire, the heat of the fire as it hits my balls >.< that hurt so much, but after I kept on going till my poi went out. I am so addictied to poi now, I doubt I will ever be able to stop
burning thingys is fun, and exciting
Gromit's Humble Squire
4,496 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Kerosene
Wait til you try D60
member
42 posts
Location: California, USA
What is D60?
If you strap a piece of buttered toast, butter side up, to a cats back, would the cat get stuck in mid air if thrown due to quantum indecision?
25 posts
Location: Manchester
Hi all. I remember my first burn. I lurned to fire breath pissed as a fart. The guy who tought me branded me as a right of passage or somethin. Still got it now on my chest.
Fire breather turned spinner
105 posts
yeah, what is d60
The quest for poi perfection may bring much enlightenment...
and burns
OOUUUUCCCHHHHIIIEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
old hand
740 posts
Location: Darkest Bedford., United Kingdom
Oooooh... Accellerants!
Tell us 'bout D60!!
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