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8 posts
Location: USA
Hey there folks!
I'm on the quest to poi regularly now that I'm in a place that it's possible. I gave up last winter being that indoor poi (with my weakness of sending them sailing occasionally) is fair dangerous to property and outside there was several feet of snow.
Now I've moved to Florida and playing outdoors is the thing to do! So I've been scouting ebay, amazon, and of course here and other related sites for how-to dvds (any recommendations?) and watching my pocket book for the opportunity to randomly splurge (GUILT GUILT).
I watched Clan Tynkers preform with Fire Poi at Pennsic and was hooked, sought out poi and did my best to learn from websites, primarily this one.
Then, at the height of my christmas splurging, I get some very sad news! Sam Tynker of the Tynker clan was paralyzed! The article read:
"...The day before Thanksgiving, Sam became completely paralyzed below the waist. He was rushed to ICU, and with a series of tests it was discovered that he had an arterial-vascular fistula, a rare [congenital] condition...which creates an abnormal blood flow in his spinal cord. The effect of this malformation of the arteries usually becomes apparent after the second decade of one’s life. "
This re-enforced my decision to practice again and led to a thought that I've been playing with. I get laid off in Feburary, maybe I could visit home and take a trip to London, where I've got some friends to crash with, work a little, swing poi with that community, and then head over to Eastern Europe to Teach English (my fav place is Czech Rep and I have a TEFL certificate). Then head back to the states to go back Uni in Sept.
Also enjoy Rapier combat and Belly dance
AIM: asyiatheseeker
email: gyogyfurdo@yahoo.com
Hope to chat with y'all,
Later!
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6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
Hello and welcome to HoP!!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
.:waves franticly:. hihihi!
to hop! or something -James
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Tantamount to fatuity
15,967 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Written by: Charist
Where am I?
You're in Florida. You said so yourself.
This is the lamest Where's Wally spin off i've seen for ages!
Meh
Corporate Circus Arts Entertainer
3,989 posts
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Welcome Charist, (pats Cantus soothingly on his head to calm him down).
The best Where's Wally spinoffs was the one where he wasn't on any of the pages!
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The GF of HoP
492 posts
Location: Somerset, England
Well i feel cheated so heres a real where's wally. sori for putting this in you you intro its not very nice of me but... well... sorry.
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Any who Welcome to HoP!
hope you enjoted your christmas splurge. fire leads to creation
The GF of HoP
492 posts
Location: Somerset, England
damn it i stretched you thread. I hang my head in shame.
fire leads to creation
515 posts
Location: Cyprus
Wey hey i found him! I havent thought about or seen one of those for donkeys years!
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Hope all is well : )
HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
yeh i found him hes about to hit the blind bloke and the old woman with a stick! nasty wally, my favourite was the one under the sea and the other one with some worms or something under the ground in tunnels, i always sorry for the one that was stuck and couldnt get out
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
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,276 posts
Location: Oxfordshire/Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Hey... do u like kissing???
I couldnt see Wally.... UCoFs on there tho! haha xxx
tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.
84 posts
Location: Richardsbay, South Africa
Hey there Charist. From one Newbie to another
Welcome. Im pretty sure that if you're a little on the eccentric side you'll fit right in!!!!
Where the mind goes,
The body will follow...
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
Hello
do you like the colour pink?
Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
Tantamount to fatuity
15,967 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
I've been thinking. Isn't he called Waldo in the US?
Meh
The GF of HoP
492 posts
Location: Somerset, England
i think it is but i will wait for an American to verify before i put any money on it
how you doing charist?
fire leads to creation
Skinny poi maker
313 posts
Location: Moscow, Russia
hellohello =) HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
i alwyas wondered that, what was the bad wally called, the one with the yellow n black stripes?
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
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Bumble-Bee?
-Mike
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Pooh-Bah
2,084 posts
Location: melbourne, victoria, australia
Hello! who are the other people that you need to find in those things, there's the bumble bee bloke, and a female wally. is there some sort of scroll or stuff? I must admit, i like wally. i'm getting that warm and fuzzy childhood reminiscing feeling. ahhhhhhhhh
HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
i had the wally underwater puzzle, that was like 100 pieces that was cool, yeh i think you had to find soemtimes his hats which the nutter left lying around, (how many does he need) and yolu had to find his dog, wasnt the bumble bee bloke called waldo?
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
newbie
8 posts
Location: USA
Wally = Waldo.... tho I was thinking 'where am I in my life', hell, I wouldn't mind finding a Wally either
Tantamount to fatuity
15,967 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Well I answered that too.
You're in Florida.
Next question.
Meh
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