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Posted: 18th May 2002
I had a great time too, it was brilliant to be able to see who people really are and get in some practise and learning among like minded people.

Unfortunately, I also had a massive attack of zero self confidence and ended up not speaking to as many people as I wanted.

Oh well, if it becomes a monthly thing during the summer (which I think is a great idea), I'll have to make more of an effort next time. I might even be able to use my left arm next time too

But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

Posted: 19th May 2002
Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!

Man that was good fun.
Great to see everyone and finally put faces to names.

My legs are black and blue from my new beamers but dang it was worth it!

On top of this the weather was pretty darn good.
Ok, a few name checks:

Cass - Great to meet you, you're a truly graceful spinner and stupendously friendly!

C@antus & Ros - Sorry I didn't get to talk to you as much as I would've liked but it was still great to meet you. And by the way, if any of you start trying to pull that "I'm not particularly good at this" crap again, you're gonna be shot down for the liars you are You're both wicked.

Glass - Thanks again, you're a top, top guy! You've gotta love the ball circle

Kato - You're an awesome spinner and it was great talking to you, hope we can meet again.

PK - Same to you, a great spinner and I regret not getting to talk to you.

And all the rest of you I spoke to, not a single bad thing to say about you (apart from a few jealous comments
It was truly a great and humbling event to attend, can't wait to the next one.

I'm off to buy some witchhazel for my pummeled shins.

Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude

Posted: 19th May 2002
Oh, I forgot a HUGE

THANK YOU

to all those who organised the day!

P.S. Can this thread be re-named to something like "The London Poi in the Park Appreciation page"

Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude

Posted: 19th May 2002
Another big thank you to everyone that organised it all! I had a great time, despite not talking to many people. Some wicked twirlers there - it made me realise just how far my spinning has to go!! It was just a bit frustrating that I had to leave so early, before the fire really got going. It must have been amazing. Highlights of the day, for me -

Seeing Kato spin. Damn, that guy is good!!
Orange setting fire (briefly) to a bucket of parafin about a meter away from where I was sitting.
Picking up a few new ideas just from watching all the different styles.
Having such a chilled day in the middle of exam revision stress.
Putting faces to names.

I would love to see it become a monthly event!! If there is another one, I'm definitely staying for the entire thing.
See you all again sometime (I hope)

J

If you're not confused, you're not thinking about things hard enough.

Posted: 19th May 2002
Hey!!!
I need to find Orange!!!!! If you are reading this pls send me a mail... Must meet up man I had fun and when i see you again I will be spinning that staff!!!!!!!
I was the one right b4 you left trying to spin...
anyway see you ppl soon...
Love, Peace and Harmony... Kels

JUGGLEwithyourmind!

Posted: 19th May 2002
hey guys just a big thank you to you all for coming along, there was such an array of spinning abilities and styles. Every one was so friendly and like minded it was totally unbeleivable to be around such a mass of spinners and jugglers. Wow to make it monthly that would be so good.
Myself and Glass are talking about a poi camp sometime during the summer but would like to find out what others think to the idea and maybe get an idea of how many people would be up for it?.. anyway thats just an idea so please feel free to post you idea or email me or glass or dom.

names:
durbs: cracking style mate, those beamers were going round some.
BamBam: see you next weelend, your staff is coming along nicely now.
Carrey: wow, your stlye is outstanding and you have those BTB waistwraps down so smoothly even kato was stunned.
Cass: you are such a lovely person, i totally enjoyed spending the weekend with you.
Davy: cheers for the hospitality.
Moohaha: you man rule, you spinning was incredible too.
DFQ: so good to see you again.
Dom: hehe good work man and thank you for making my flags.
Glass: we love you man, your such an inspiration to us all, and kato thought ur sis was a hottie too haha.
nice one to the guy that was spinning the wirewool that was a superb show.
Orange: its allways good to see you man, you put light and energies in all our souls.
the list goes on and on.
thanks to everyone that took part in making it a poi event to remember, and for jumping in for the HOP photos.
I took some mug shots and will try and fix my scanner so i can post them some where.

heres where i shout: WE ALL NEED TO THANK CASS FOR SPENDING 2 HOURS SATURDAY MORNING PREPARING AND COOKING THOSE CREPES WE ALL SO MUCH ENJOYED!
wasnt to sure about the raspberry rice pudding ones though. hehe.

anyway thanks again guys, i love you all.

Posted: 19th May 2002
oh cantus, ross, loli, spiral and your mates. Thistle and mini thistle, becky and everyone else from nottingham, newborn, anna, and catboy from leicester, the guys from birmingham and so on.......we need to put names to this HOP pic.

[ 20 May 2002, 05:57: Message edited by: Poi'd and insane ]

Posted: 19th May 2002
HeyNYC sorry you couldnt join us in london, but did your one man poi in the park happen? did you get a HOP group pic too?
sends love from england.
mmm crepes.

Posted: 19th May 2002
WoW! Seems it turned out to be a HUGE success with all the glowing replies! ^_^ This makes me wanna be in london or the UK!

Glad it turned out to be a great experience. I think we need a PiP down in San Diego or something to that extent. I'd LOVE to see alot of HoP people (well... as many as possible )

Cheers!
Kinudin

Posted: 19th May 2002
First post....
Logged on to home of poi coz I enjoyed poi in the park.
Some of you I know, my name is Matt or poiboy and I do most disciplines. I went hyperactive and spent the afternoon doing handstands, climbing trees, playing with a skateboard, hurting myself and saying dude a lot. I get very hyperactive.
I know the just jugglers crew and a couple of other folk.
Good stuff

Walls may have ears but they don't have eyes

Posted: 19th May 2002
WOW!
Such an amazing day, so many new faces, styles and moves to try and get my head around.

Was especially goos to meet the people who I've heard so much about and/or have been chatting to recently :

PK, Kato, Laura - fantastic to finally meet you lovely people - you all spin so annoyingly fluidly and full of grace.....you guys left me speechless
Glass - great to meet you. LOVED the contact staff stuff so much, it gives me something to work towards (sad i didn't get to see your contact juggling though)
Cass - As beautiful outside and in as I was expecting. Thank you so much for the present, the crepes and the hug, and your spinning was fantastic - staff stuff too
Durbs - amazing contact juggling stuff and the beaming poi looked great - so glad to have finally met you. Sorry we didn't get to chat that much though.
Lolli - you made it! you're a star - great to see you even if it was brief

I could go on for ever - I was so impressed with all the spinning and the friendliness and everything. Shuch an amazing day. Thank you all so much for making it so memorable

Geologists do it in the dirt................

Posted: 19th May 2002
Noona - I ran off with your prezzie still in my bag I just found it.

Sorry sweetie
R xx

Geologists do it in the dirt................

Posted: 19th May 2002
OooOOOoOOoOooOOooh NooOoOoooOOooOOooOo!! What are we gonna do with you Ros? hehe don't worry!

It was great to meet you. In fact it was fantastic meeting everyone, I don't wanna do a namecheck though cos I'm not very good at names. You're all lovely real live people and not internet freaks that only exist in cyberspace (not that I thought that anyway)

The whole weekend was a real eye opener, so many different styles of spinning, it's given me loads of inspiration, cheers.

And finally thanks to the magical poi household for putting up with PK's smelly feet all weekend.

Posted: 19th May 2002
Oh I forgot to thank Glass and Dom. You guys are the best! We luuuuurve yooooou!!!

Posted: 19th May 2002
hey there was only a stench fer like 5 mins until i found some basher spray fer'em. afterall we are norverna's. those sovners cant take some hard walked out foot smells.

Posted: 19th May 2002
In the group photo (durbs is on the case) there are 80-something HOPper. It aint all of them. Plus there was more than that not in the photo than in it.
The super accurate Pk-ometer told me there were 200 poiple there.

Just enough space to write:
Crepes, cake, opening cola bottles before eating them, smiles, strawberries, salmon sandwiches, snow leopards, seven beat weaves ow, trees, Jupiter trousers, Smiles, poi session in cyberdog, late night davy swing. “Can I have your autograph?” Gecko, dog in a box and fully functioning teleport-o-matic machine.

Thanks to everyone else who I now kinda know even if I don’t know all your names, and thanks to everyone who isn’t on HOP.
Thanks.

We are definitely doing this again,
Smiles
glass

holding the whole event and everypeeps inside one big contact ball and looking in on it from the outside while still being in the middle of it all around, just when the sun had got its hat on and the sky had the blues.

Posted: 19th May 2002
AND.....
A big shout out to all da london poi swining posse. HOOOO.
Okie in reverse polish alphabetical order:
PK- respect
Lolli, Great groovy cool, I don’t even remember our wedding. But so glad you could come down and muchily good luck with the exam tomorrow. The answers are (1) a. (2) c. (3) b. (4) a. (5) 36DD. (6) y=x*cot(sqrt(-1)x^2)/hyp(x) (7) colonel mustard in the dining room with the berretta.
Hope that helps.
Kato man, VERY clean circles, nice. Sight without sight and waking sleeping, I’m working on them. And all there rest of that stuff, its all up there, I’m meditating on it with ball. Oh, and “can I have your autograph?” and sorry mate she’s already taken – she’s got a long term, live in
spikey rich – groovy, with cool spikes
Crazy john, wicked crazy standing on shoulders swinging double poi much-too-near-my-face-slightly-funky-feet groovy thing.
Thistle thanks for lending me your jumper to stop me toasting myself.
Cantus and Ros J such a cute couple. Cool. And that Ros has such a walm smile.
Lauranoona-Lunanoora do try to get some sleeps, great hair. And big smiles and hugs camping adventure, I shall hope to see you and all the crowd up in Sheffield in about 2 months or so (she’s very cool lady you know)
Orange –heeeeh, wooppie the famous wizard please don’t do the trick with the double poi and the bucket of paraffin again, we like you too much.
HazeJ, MarcoJ
King Dom – So are we going to set up in business together or what?
Carrey and Ewan – great sarnies and raffles and love and cuddles and fire extingqwisheriser and floating lovelyness
DFQ thaks for bringing them there socks. Whhhoo, must count to 10. 1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10…. Ok, normal breathing again.
King louie – quit monkeying around.
hugbug durbs. Dem beaming poi is da work of da devil. Have you got that pipxture of everyone up on your site yet? Sorry PK the one with you in came out all sqwiffy, so you not there, but I can just work a bit of magic with potatoshop 5.5 and you be right the middle there in no time.
That goes for you too NYC, send us a little picture of you from the front in daytime, and you can be an PIP London too.
Bovril monkey (great name)- no worries, see message.
Cass is issuperlovelyguenuinesmileshappybouncy and great crepes (in that pan too, the dedication and tenacity to get crepes out of that pan is the sign of a great poi swinger). And she can dance in the middle of poi much much betterer than she thinks she can, just great to watch, (hey mogwi;)) NYC is a blessed man.

groovy

Posted: 19th May 2002
crickey, was that a bit toooo much

Posted: 19th May 2002
Great read though.

Posted: 19th May 2002
Hmm poi in the park. Interesting idea this poi thing. Can't really see it catching on though.....

Highlights of the day for me include (in no particular order):Seeing the looks on people's faces as the bright and bouncy phenomenon that is Mr Orange came into view for the first time. And the point shortly after when they said "He's very orange....Oh, he's Orange!!"Seeing, meeting, hugging greeting (and in one case pelting with cashew nuts) various members of my family - including a sneak attack from Lolli.Carrey telling me that I'm not as horrible as she thought i was going to bewatching Mr Orange trying to explode himself dropping a hot and burning thing into a big pot of fuel - been mentioned before in this thread but it's such a classic momentMr Sun deciding to put his hat on and come out and play with us at 3.10discovering that Durbs is much nicer in real lifeI'm going to have to stop this list as I realise it's just going to go on and on as every single moment yesterday was one to cherish.

[ 20 May 2002, 11:55: Message edited by: C@ntus ]

Meh

Posted: 20th May 2002
Hello Everybody

Also want to say thanks for a great night. Me and my friends were the last to leave at about 1:30, while we were cleaning up the bits and pieces left around (which wasn't much well done everyone), we found someone's French 'Examination Grammar in Action' text book, with work inside. It was left along with some Cyberdog flyers. I've picked this up and if the owner gets in touch I'm more than happy to post it back to them.

Anyway, thanks again everyone for a lot of fun, hopefully see you all at the next one.

Love, peace and unityFoobzThe Happy Hippie

Posted: 20th May 2002
Oops, I posted this in the wrong place before...let me try again...

Hello everyone!

Yes, Saturday was amazingly cool...

Thought you all might like to know that Simon won the competition by guessing there were 384 toys at London's first PiP. The actual number was 388 - which is pretty impressive for roughly 130 people!!

Ewan (SpaceMonkey) and I have decided that the best things to buy for the PiP community from the proceeds are:
Fire Hydrant (more portable than the monster I nicked from work for Saturday)
A gas light (possibly with stove for tea/coffee, sausages etc.)
Stereo (though we're not sure there'll be enough for this one just yet.)
If anyone has any other ideas, please let me know.

Thank you to so many people who came from near and far to join us, even when the weather looked a bit dodgy - it was a great day and feels really good to have been a part of it.

See you all and more of you at the next one!!

Cantus: You were lovelier than I expected - I never thought you would be *horrible* though!
Poi'd and Insane: Thank you so much
Poi camps are a wonderful idea and I would be happy to help organise with you and Drew (glass) if you need help.

PK, Moohaha, Cantus, Kato, Cassandra, BovrilMonkey, etc. great to meet you...I really hope to see you again soon. Orange - always wonderful to catch up - see you soon too!

Favourite moment - Kato cleverly set his jumper on fire for just a couple seconds. It was a lovely blue flame that danced as he did and everyone shouted, "Hey! Wow! Can you do that again!"

Sparkey Poi...wow! Amazing stuff...go the Human Catherine wheel!!

Did anyone stick around late enough to do some skipping? The rope was as you would expect it to be - on fire! To brave for me...

Cheers!
C

Posted: 20th May 2002
Wicked event guys, loved every minute of it. I will definitly be at the next event.

I got loads of inspiration off of all of you and even managed to learn a few new moves whilst there. Including the btb weave which before has proved to be so illusive. Anyways just writing to add on to the thanks that other people have written and to show my appreciation for an absolutely awesome day.

Thanks

'Happiness is liking peeing on yourself. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.'

'If *I* had a hammer, there'd be no more folk singers.'

Posted: 20th May 2002
definately great

thanks for what i was taught from everyone; always on the look out for new poi knowledge...

at the next one (because theres no doubt it will happen) i am enlisting everyone to teach me as many new moves as possible. and someone will have to teach me staff

great contact circle

THANK YOU

warp children still smile the same

"when i left the mine i realised that the world was changing. or was it us who were changing?"

Posted: 20th May 2002
ooooh, sounded good but nerves got the better of me cos mates blew me out so i didn't want to come down on my own!! I'm with Bovrilmonkey... MUCH more effort needed next time! anyway, glad it turned out nice... i'm guessing that some of you went down to liquid connective in kent forest (wasn't it beautiful ) sat night... saw a few familiar faces from photos... learnt a lot of stuff just from watching and a gorgeous evening had by all... damn those guys were good!

Posted: 20th May 2002
Another thank you to Carrey? (were you running around organising the toys competition?) for pulling off the "btb 360 keeping the poi on one side of your body" trick (gotta be a better name for it than that), as done by Sage on CoL2. It's been bugging me for a while, but after seeing you do it on saturday, I finally managed to crack it myself. Yay!

J

If you're not confused, you're not thinking about things hard enough.

Posted: 20th May 2002
Thanks everybody for all the effort and energy which made it an excellent day, and a wicked weekend! Amazing to see so many lovely, special people

I think everything else has already been said. I had me a blast!

I'll post the handful of pics I got later today. If anyone has some pics they want to get online but don't have the capacity then send 'em to me.

Posted: 20th May 2002
Hey Jephyre,

Yes, the "Toy Count" (388!) comp was me...managed to raise quite a bit to our cause, so I'm very happy about that. I didn't really get to chat to too many people though, which was a bit of a pity...too busy running around counting toys and inspiring people to enter in the "spirit of Poiness!"

I think it's called a BTB waistwrap with 360 turn (or something), but I'm not too sure. I wanted to do it since I saw Sage doing it on COL2. Orange and glass really helped me to get it and glss is the king of waistwraps, so best to ask him for the names if you want. Congratulations on getting it right though!! It's sooooo addictive once you do (even though I can only do it in one direction!) and can really kill your back, so watch out! Very glad I could help out.

Cheers!
C

Posted: 20th May 2002
why are there 2 threads for 1 topic? <=rhetorical question.

again, love to everyone who came down, it was a wonderful gathering for sure.. but to be honest, there were more jugglers of all types at the Liquid Connective party that night..

Was wonderful having the sheffield crew around (I love their accents!!), was a pleasure having you over.

Posted: 20th May 2002
hey... great big thanks to people for organising and turning up, had an absolutely wicked day; sorry didnt meet many of you, did my normal trick of being embarassed, hiding beheind a bush to twirl, and not really talking to anyone

big public thanque to thistle for driving me down there and back again while my car was poorly

poi'd and insane, sorry, wasn't in the group picture, was teaching a 7yr old and her mum the weave! probably better that way; two more twirlers, one less cracked camera lense!...

hopefully see you all again soon

b

you can take the cat out of the jungle, but you cant take the jungle out of the cat