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**ANNOUNCING**



*** UBEROZ ***



Playshops Intensive

Brisbane, Australia



When

3-5th February 2006.

Friday night, Saturday and Sunday workshops

Saturday night: Pool/Fire/Garden party





Look at the website for LOADS of information!! www.uberoz.net



Teachers and Sample Workshops:

Rob (Bluecat) from te POOKa (Edinburgh) (also at Woodford this year!)



The Workshop workshop (no props)

How to go about preparing several different types of workshops



Ubertangles and body knots (poi)

Negative space, airwrap theory for all, fun things to do with tanglage



Sequence Building/creating a routine (probably staff)



Finnish Throwing (staff)

As taught by the Rubber Heart Duo: fun throws and variations



Nasty Contact Surgery (staff)

You come to us (me and kyle) and we’ll help you with the mostest badassest things we know





Kyle



Body movement with a stick



Advanced Single Stick contact Trix and techniques



Stuff with rob(see above)



Introduction to Contact staff



Ways to think about contact staff

Changing priorities – using techniques from other disciplines and modifying the way you think about the way you play…





Matt

(Spherculist)



Throws(poi)

Basic development of poi throwing techniques



Wibbles, dibbles and utter madness(poi)

AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!



Pattern Modifiers(poi)

Boxes, inversions, anything in fact to get away from circles and cylinders



Dom



UberBasics (poi)

Flow, sensitivity & cleanliness

Circle placement

Plane control

Movement using circle placement & plane control

Take-outs & separations

Flowers

Anti-spin basics if time



Breaking the circle(poi)

Stalls

Isolations

Poi fondling

Throws (if relevant and maybe sock poi based as Oz is full of throwers)

Kicks, headbutts, Gilligans, Wraps, etc…



UberCirc (poi)

Air wraps & hyperloops

Antispins – different timings of antispin flowers

Moving poi at different beats to the spin (parallel pops, really an other antispin type)

Crossover points (nerdy)



Ben



feet staffing

starting with simple stuff like foot stalls, foot carries, thigh carries (for want of a better name kinda like a fishtail on the knee ), club kickups

club kickups controlling height for entrance to snes/elbow stuff

foot fishtails

lynx

reverse lynx



long doubles (stick)

theres 3 nice non contact/contortyish sequences ive been playing with

dual fishtails

um and all the basic doubles stuff



Nick Nick Woolsey ([Old link]) of Poi Studio

Our Special Guest demonstrating smooth magic...



and wait there's more (just Joshing)



:what a lineup!





Venue:

Hillbrook School, Enoggera. 15 mins north of city centre, near Gaythorne/Enoggera railway stations (train from Brisbane airport).



Playshop space:a huge airy Recreation Hall, with showers



Outside play space: tree-lined fields going down to a creek with ducks, turtles and stuff.



Accommodation:

Camping/van space onsite. Backpackers' hostels and billets available as well. Let us know if you are a Brissy person who can fit some travellers in...



Cost:

Then: $100 for the whole weekend, including some catering and camping (if required)



To Book:

PM me or register directly from the www.uberoz.net



and feel free to PM me (local admin peep) or Bluecat (Ubermeister) directly for anything else you might want to know....



YAY This is gonna be FUN!!!

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

hug me!

-Such a price the gods exact for song: to become what we sing
-Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
-When the center of the storm does not move, you are in its path.

Nutella Brigade Unite!

"Look! I have a rainbow penis!" - Rouge

Owned By Steaks

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

What if we think the jokes on them,
But really - the jokes on us....

and also... i wuv Rougie *snuz*

If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh

If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh

Let's relight this forum

Ninjas NEVER give up!

Never hold your farts in! They travel up your spine, go into your brain and that's where shitty idea's come from.

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Written by: Y.T.

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... arrive at sunny brisbane airport on friday at about noon...

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.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

I live in a world of infinite possibilities.

Small Lardy Person In Disguise

Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.

What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

-Such a price the gods exact for song: to become what we sing
-Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
-When the center of the storm does not move, you are in its path.

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Never hold your farts in! They travel up your spine, go into your brain and that's where shitty idea's come from.

Laugh Often, Smile Much, Post lolcats Always

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Written by: newgabe

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School Hall: tick
Sound system: tick
Scout Hall: tick
info sheet sent: tick
Catering: tick
Fuel: tick
People arriving already!: tick (First Official Arrival Dan's just buzzed off to the Whitsundays for a few days)
Omigollylolly it's happening

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Feel the Flame
Phirenix

Getting to the other side

Incendiary meditation

“Think not of the staff as being rigid, but of your mind as being that which is inflexible.”

Written by: Typhon

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Soooo wanna be up there. Anyone driving up from Canberra in the next few days?

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Written by: jc_firetricks

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Just letting you know, firetricks will still be comming and you will be getting an email from me tomz.

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.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....