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"hello .. can anyone spin 8 poi at once... if so what moves... I find it fun but very limited."
"i was thinking last night lying in bed....I like to draw, and i fancy myself an artist, but i cannot paint for shit! I thought of an awesome painting!! I would say acrylic on canvas. An..."
"hello funky fire people... can anyone out there simultainously unicycle and spin poi or double staffs?if you can do you have any pointers?and if not why not?"
"Hey all, Im new to this and i started about 2 weeks ago swinging glowsticks in clubs. So basically i use shoestrings tied to the end of glowsticks (hey i just started!). I can already ..."
"Hey All,something I have been wondering about for a while, but reading Pele's recent post has led me to ask...Is fire performance (ie fire theatre - audience interaction etc) the logica..."
"Hi all,A couple of close friends of mine will be visiting The South Island of New Zealand between 16th-22nd April. They don't know much about whats going on, but they are especially int..."
"I was drug shopping this weekend by my woman. We ended up in Old Navy (clothes store here in the States). She took about 10 lbs of clothes in the dressing room to try on. So im just mil..."
"Hi my name is kenny, and i've recently started poi(mainly with glowsticks at raves) but anyways i've been having trouble with the reverse weave, i can't seen to get the cross over right..."
Posted: by Jeff Duncan
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"what about meteorsi have a home made set but would really love a set of nice home of poi ones.ps loved the beaming poi i bought. they are still on the set of batteries from january when..."
"My friends I would just like to tell you all (even those who this will mean nothing to) that THE DROME is back on track. It will re open in a different venue on sat 14th Aprill with DRO..."
"...and then Te Pupa bargained for me to get it back, which I did, the very next day when the tide was down, I still got soaked retrieving it, and had to gently shake starfish off... Tha..."
"hey people, anyone out there go to Levithan on Saturday night @ the civic? (Christchurch) If you did you might have seen some crazi chic spining poi’s like no tomorrow, (me)it was an ..."
"...stage persona(s) are you? I, Lynnie, am the opposite of Pele, who on stage is clutsy except with fire, scatter brained and very unfocussed.Just curious. ------------------Pele High..."
"hmmmi tried burning salt on a piece of paper and cant get that intense yellow colour ppl say that it givesdoes salt work?how would i put it on a staff?mix in kero?what shoudl i do to ge..."
"I was just wondering what size glowsticks do people use; I am just going to order some. In the past I have used the standard 6"inch but I think maybe the 4"inch ones are better, any th..."
"i can do the behind the back weave in the first direction(poi going forward at bottom of swing) almost flawlessly, and now im trying to do it in the opposite direction, and eventually t..."
"OK DangerBoy, spinning sport socks with coins definitely has you in the lead of the "crazy-ill" bunch !)I'd can myself if I saw some dude at a jol spinning his socks ! Then again, if y..."
"This site has served me very well in the few months that I have been aware of it, but I have now reached the point where I can perform pretty much all of the moves listed. I have recen..."
"hello freaky fire people...Have any of you tried busking with the fire..if so have you had any troubles with... audience, fire saftey, laws, a show that sucks..., other buskers or f..."
"Hmm -would you be surprised if i told you my mother taught me how to spin pois? i learnt pois when i was about 6 years old and im now 22. I guess its the whole cultural thing being a ne..."
"OK...i STILL cannot do an alternating butterfly with my left hand. I can go over my shoulder with it all damn day with my right hand, but then when i try to alternate them one after the..."
"Just became the proud owner of a new set of comet poi. Little problem, however. The stuff it's made of smells....weird. Not a problem if you're swinging them but since I carry them in m..."
"Though I don;t like to admit being lax in the fire daftey department, we had a bit of an accident last night that I'd like to share.Blaze and I were getting some filming done down by th..."
"In the video with Jo Derry using fluorescent poi https://www.homeofpoi.com/realaudio/jo_derry28.ram he does a few things that I can't figure out. 1) the move in front of his body, looks..."
"Last night in the living room, i cracked open a freshset of glowsticks to practice a little. I put on Hyperia 4 Rave-mix cd and started throwing the strings. For two days now i have bee..."
Posted: by joeyd
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"anyone want to hit up club exit tommorrow. im meeting a couple of people from this site there. everyone should go and show off their stuff.reply back if your interested in meeting up ..."
"howdy i am new to the board but am working with a few friends here in texas and was wondering if anyone else out there goes to pennsic !!!! we were first introduced to poi at pennsi..."
Posted: by adamrice
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"Check it out:http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/arts/docs/firedance17.htmThere's a comment at the end of this article that I find a little troubling--but possibly correct."
"okay. there was a thread on this board a month or so ago discussing glow stick/liquid/glowstringing and now i can do it a little. I have found people in my school that can do it and t..."
"Hey you twirlophobes and spinsters, I'm trying to get set up for some black light shows this summer and I'm looking for a good source of black lights.Does anyone know where I can find ..."
Posted: by Superman
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"I know what you are thinking. How does this apply to the board, but it does, sortof. Ill be there for the first week in June.I know alot of people on the board are in Europe-type areas...."
"i dunno why, but im curious to what u all have hidden up ur sleeves. tell me ur best move/combo. i just started and mine is currently doing 360s (i.e. fwd weave, 180, reverse weave, 1..."
"Last night while practicing a simple high turn to forward butterfly I smacked my cheek bone with one of my Photon II POI and SHATTERED the "unbreakable" solid plexi bulb. Of course, the..."
"A friend and I were talking about this recently and I was curious as to what everyone thought/would do.My friend and I both belong to performance "groups", my friend an actual group and..."
"has anyone found the length of trance songs(often 7 to 10 minutes) to be a problem when coordinating a routine to it? My fire only lasts well for a good 5 minutes or so, but i can't se..."
"HiI'm just about to make a fire staff, and i was wondering what size I should make it.I'm kinda short, so i don't have a very long arm reach. Is there any kinda guide that i could use?"
"Hi,I have been asked to teach a class on poi at an elementae=ry school, and afterwards do a fire show for the kids. What are your thoughts on teaching this to the kids. Safety is obviou..."
"This is probably pretty tame compared to some of you guys that have been doing this a while, but i have had 2 Glowsticks on the ends of two 8 ft. nylon threads. I started them in rever..."
"There is a rave in atlanta ga on the 24th of this month. i know there will be twirlers there but they are usually mundane and only know the forward weave and the butterfly. I would love..."
"Hey all... i am just writing to let all you wonderful people (and i really mean it, this board is amazing!) that due to personal problems & academic trouble (and exams coming up) i thin..."
"Greetings Twirlers! My question for you is, Does anyone have any tidbits they can offer regarding the effects on your health of different fuels? A friend of mine who uses largely kero..."
"Hey All,Quack knows why I didnt think of this eariler..does anyone here synch their breathing to their movement?It's quite intergral to the katas I do as part of my studies in Kym Bushi..."
"Nice job buddy, im impressed. i havent checked this site out for a couply of months, i've been a busi girl, but its great man. few questions for you, are they still doin the tuesday nig..."
"Hi, I'm Skye. I'm new to the board here.I wanted to tell everybody about the new Krill lamps I just tried out last night for the first time. I'm excited because I've been waiting for so..."
"its the TRUE Super Saiyajin again.i would just like 2 know who is like the greatest in poi.then so i can takl 2 ya if i need help and 2 find out about u etc. etc.l8! The TRUE Sup..."
"Just wondering if anyone else is celebrating the Beltane fire festival round the world. Here in Edinburgh it's become one of the biggest fire festivals in Europe.If you don't know what..."
"i just gotta know, are you aware that the 4th track on cd1 of kontor volume 8 is titled caned and unable. and it is one the best ever trance tracks to dance to ever. for all of you wh..."
Posted: by tigger2oo
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" who's going to PVD or Emerson, i would like to meet some of u to see some more intricate stuff, i am good but i can only learn so much on my own "
"Poi is somthing newly discovered by me, I took it up as somthing I could claim gracefulness to,I am quite a clumsy person.No body else did it so it made me feel good. A Boy in my area w..."
"i promised myself i wouldn't post random thoughts without a question to ask, but i just had to show off for a minute! i figured you guys'd understand, anyway. so....last night a frien..."
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