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Login/Join to Participate...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
Hi all!
Not my first introduction here but I have been away for some time and couldn't find my first intro thread
Oh well time to start over I guess
My name is Martin aka Budgie (don't ask
) and I first saw Poi at Glasto 2000. Bought my first set at Glasto 2001 and started to learn then. Unfortunately I am kinda lazy so sorta gave up after a little while as I did not know anyone else who spins and found it hard going learning on my own. Guess its hard to find inspiration on your own and the various HoP thread describing moves are kinda double Greek to me. I have gone through several learning spells but overall I'm still a beginner. I have also since learnt some staff and meteor and can sort of juggle and diablo in very small amounts!I recently found myself with more free time (as my life has settled down somewhat after job/partner/living changes) and finally went camping for the summer solstice this year and met lots of spinners who sparked my learning of Poi again. (greets to anyone camping at the 9 ladies stone circle near Bakewell, Derbyshire UK)
Anyways enough of my rambling
Drop me a note to hi and PM me if you live and Poi anywhere near Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire UK.Laters, Budgie
Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
Member
17 posts
Location: Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Hey there nice to meet you
I'm Lizzie and new to HoP and Poi itself I'm learning but slowly as don't know anyone who does it.
I live in Wolverhampton so not a million miles from you and am planning to go up to Brum on monday to get some guidance from a group up there.
Also got a staff but completely clueless with that and blimey it hurts when it hits you
Pooh-Bah
1,785 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Hellooo
to the maddness 
...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
Hi Guys
Thanks for the welcome! I know I should post this in the Poi moves section but can anyone give me any pointers for infinite (turning?) lock-out sequences? I can't seem to find the place or timing to do the turn bit after the first 3 lock-outs. I am trying to get into this from a standard 3b weave....
Cheers Budgie
Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK
boing boing boing
heya
have you tried the events forum or meeting others for finding groups etc?
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addict
584 posts
Location: Sunshine Coast, Australia
Never hold your farts in! They travel up your spine, go into your brain and that's where shitty idea's come from.
fluffy mess
197 posts
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
hello and welcome to HOP
"I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.." - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,099 posts
Location: Bideford and Bath, United Kingdom
welcome to hop (even if you are a older hopper than me)
UCOF "evolution: Poi -> stick -> hoops -> devil stick -> juggling club -> juggling ball -> crayons."
Supergroovalsticprosifunkstication
In other words, it's the thumps bump
...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
Guess it should be more like a "welcome back" then hu?
Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
*boing boing boing boing boing boing*
So I got up this morning and thought to myself "I wonder what colour the universe is". Don't ask why......I have these strange kinda dreams......anyways in the end I decided that to me its a kinda turquoise.....but I then wondered what other people though about this so.....what colour do you guys think the universe is??
Laters,
Budgie
*dashes off to play with my new fluffy poi*
Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
member
185 posts
Location: Australia,Vic
"glow bugs, to slow to resist eating, to bitter to eat more than one handfull in a sitting" toothpaste for dinner
HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
the universe, colour? hmm i think it has to be easy on the eyes, turquoise is nice, however i reckon i nice cyan/pink would go down nicely
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian
...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
Not too sure about the pink/cyan idea personally - least not if its got to be easy on the eyes! I find pink gives me a headache if there is too much of it!
Hmmmm anyone else go a colour in mind?
Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
Member
17 posts
Location: Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Thanks for the message
Would love to meet up sometime soon.
Am meeting some folks in brum tomorrow for a few pointers by the university.
I don't mind coming to you and you'd be more than welcome over here.
See you soon
...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
Am bored at work.....anyone got any interesting facts for me? I like to collect wierd facts, strange hu?
Fact of the day :-
95% of the Blackberry crop harvested in the UK goes into making Ribena!!
Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
34 posts
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
It costs £1000 pounds each to have a car painted with traffic police colours. And they moan about being skint.
You became the light on the dark side of me...
209 posts
Location: Stoke
Hey Hey Hey.... I finally made it!!!
Thanks for introducing me to HoP and teaching me everything I know
Hope ya gonna teach me much more If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you!
Pooh-Bah
1,848 posts
Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
*postpost* see, told you i wasn't a meanie
i think the universe is purple, or at least it bloody well should be.
interesting facts, interesting facts... ummm... babies are born without kneecaps, they grow when you're about 4 months old.
"i am exotic, and must keep my arms down" - Rougie
"i don't understand what penises have to do with getting married" - Foxie
...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
Mwahahahahaha see I win really
Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
Pooh-Bah
1,848 posts
Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
nah you don't... cuz you see... i'm just come in here with my flu and spreading all my germs in your thread.
"i am exotic, and must keep my arms down" - Rougie
"i don't understand what penises have to do with getting married" - Foxie
...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
aha!!! So you are the meanie really!!! Euwww germs *cleans the thread manically*
Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
Pooh-Bah
1,848 posts
Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
no i not a meanie... i just like to share.
"i am exotic, and must keep my arms down" - Rougie
"i don't understand what penises have to do with getting married" - Foxie
...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
Do you think peeps will think we have caught the HoP madness? (having one covo spread over two threads like some kinda crazy llama's) Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
*slou?
6,555 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
oh, i already know you're nuts
not confused anymore
hiya! Pooh-Bah
1,848 posts
Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
i thought it was spread over three threads and two forums?
"i am exotic, and must keep my arms down" - Rougie
"i don't understand what penises have to do with getting married" - Foxie
3,380 posts
Location: At the bottom of the garden with the fairies...
hello!
THWACK!!!!
Liz_Ard: Ouch!
SNOOPoi: Thats just not the sound of someone doing it right!
...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
Hey miss SNOOPoi
Any ideas on getting the postpimps to post on my thread without sounding desperate?? (no naming names here but i dont want to beg in my thread title or anything
)*tehehehehehe*
Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
*slou?
6,555 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
*sarcastically wonders who is being thought of there?*
...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
Pooh-Bah
1,848 posts
Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
i hope that wasn't directed at me... cuz that's not begging, that's demanding.
"i am exotic, and must keep my arms down" - Rougie
"i don't understand what penises have to do with getting married" - Foxie
...curiously lost
580 posts
Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
ok ok sorry foxy scarah Will you forgive me? Nothing is easy.......until you can do it!
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