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ok well hopefully the obscure title managed to capture your attention!
The basic answer is for me is Scouts!
I am a Scout leader, as well as having bene through all the younger sections, and I got into poi and staff and diablo through circus skills events at scout camps.
I was wondering if there are any other scouts about? and if so if they are seeing the big surge in poi as a skill of interest in the movement where they are!?
PS the water and fire links are related to the fact I am a sea scout and a water baby as well as the standard scout affiliation and obsession with fire
Dougie
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i'm a scout! i'm currently a scout network member and a beaver scout leader!
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Excellent I am not the only one
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Im a "leader" as and when needed too!
(I just wear my venture scout uniform and act all pompus, the scouts dont know the difference
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I still fit into my cub scout uniform!!
ok, so only my shirt...but that's still a good effort!!!
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I still fit into my cub scout jumper - sadly i dont have the cap or the shorts anymore lol
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haha, my cub scout jumper was huuuuuge! Was a friend's older brothers! It's still too big for me!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
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i was a scout for a long time but then i came to NZ and kinda droped out of the scout friendly circles but i moved into the poi friendly circles instead
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I was Cub Leader and Group Leader of NZ's biggest Scout Group. I "lived" for campfire where I could be as idiotic as I liked and it was all part of the fun!
But my best campfire memory is from one ANZAC eve camp we held and followed it with the parades the next day (and inadvertantly launched the ANZAC parades held in our town!).
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Awesome - and campfire is certainly one of the main highlights of camp - again we are all drawn to fire!! lol
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i finished ventures two years ago. at our annual regatta(water)
we were allowed to spin fire every year, everyone loved it actually i got into twirling from other people in my group. i'd allready been juggling for a few years and we used to have nights when we'd play around with tennisball poi and broomsticks
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I was never a scout, girls weren't allowed when I was young! I had to be a brownie instead, I hated it!
My boyfriend's mum looks after a whole bunch of cubs and beavers though. It sounds like fun. Except last autumn they banned the kids from playing conkers, in case of health and safety issues.
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Yeah red tape truly does suck - it is killing the movement slowly but hey ho we replace conkers with poi and turn it from a dangerous unsuprvised activity to a supervised skills activity and all is well!!
though hopefully with less contact!
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