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Location: Texas
I am just like learning how to this this and i only get to see the person who teaches me about 1 time a month, and i was just wondering if there is any way not to have ribbons and tails, because the only ones i find have them.
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4,224 posts
Location: Back in Paris... for now !
you can always remove them, no ?
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Cass
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193 posts
Location: Manchester NH USA
I started out with shoe laces and glowsticks. They are very light weight compared to poi, but you can weigh them down... also tennis balls work nicely to learn on.
I dreamt that I ate a 10 pound marshmellow and then when I woke up, my pillow was gone!
210 posts
Location: new zealand
i used to get plain tennis balls and put small holes in them, the tie a knot in some string and jamm the knot through the hole. its a pretty easy way of avoiding tails without having to maim you poi!
the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
Or, get the ribbons and tails and tie them up with a rubber band. Then you have them to play with but not when learning.
Balled up socks and shoe strings is what I learned on.
Buzz Poi allow you to tuck in the tails, and with the addition of a short ribbon to tie them up, you can untuck them when you please.
I also made a set of my own heavily weighted practice poi from swatches of cloth, kidney beans and cording.
Just be creative!
Pele
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521 posts
Location: Bristol / London / Norwich / Chennai, India (UK) (...
When I used to work in the drome (R.I.P ) in london a great thing everyone used to do was to get a
brightly coloured pair of long socks or leggings or something along those lines and ram a tennis ball
down each one. sounds odd but its great for practicing especially if your having
a problem with tails.
Failing this do what everyone does when they first ever hear of poi.
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TENNIS BALLS ON STRING
[garbo]
[ 09 April 2002, 21:43: Message edited by: garbo ]
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46 posts
Location: Texas
Thank you for all of the help yall
Walking slowly through the rain, with out worries ther's no pain, when you see a shooting star, all your problems seem so far, if you give true love and trust, just give me all you got.
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6,978 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
From a Thrift store i managed to buy a pair of brightly coloured monkey plush toys that have really long thin tails. blue and orange, they were designed as hanging toys but i couldn't walk past them without imagining how they'd be like to twirl with. will post a silly photo of them here when i can...
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