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Login/Join to Participatejust lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
so i was just reading the insults for doing poi thread which brings up all the naughty things drunk moron spectators do but some spinners have some bad habits to.
during my time in the uk there was only one spinner i met who got under my skin, i wont name names but shall recant what i feel is bad etiquite. so at one of the lovely gatherings i went to i was teaching some contact staff to a friend of mine whom id promised a lesson, part way through this spinners comes and joins in spinning and starts contradicting what im saying and upon trying to demonstrate "the correct way" to do and elbow hand hand elbow roll kept dropping it so i kept on teaching my friend and ignored the other spinner. but being the persistant one that he was he kept at it and when i was demonstrating fishtails he told me that i was doing them wrong ...... now my fishtails arnt perfect and im always looking to learn something new so i asked for a demonstration and he couldnt keep the stick on the back of his hand for half a beat!!! so i showed him again and he was insistant that i was doing them wrong so then he held the staff on the back of his hand and move it in the same path that i had been. at which point i had to put my sticks down and walk away
enthusiasm is one thing but contracting someones teaching who u dont know to someone else who u dont know is a big no no in my book especially when u cant actually do the move
my other naughty spinners pet hate is ppl that dont burn off or spin out away from everyone
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
422 posts
Location: London
Yeah I hate getting splased with fuel. Im always looking to learn new stuff cos Ive been spinning staff for god knows how many years now, but I really hate the people who are really good but if you ask them how to do something they jst refuse to show you or pretend theyve suddenly gone deaf. (Ive only ever met onw person like that)
There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers...
old hand
845 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Hmm spinning out away from everyone - I agree. Everytime I do it (which isn't that often) I get out of peoples way but seem to always catch the wind in the wrong direction and cover myself! Hence parafinfairy I guess!
Slicing the Loaf as we speak.
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Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Borrowing toys without asking... especially new ones or expensive ones.
Oh, and guess what Benny-boy
DO A SEARCH
This has been discussed before
Burner of Toast
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Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Like [Old link] which you posted in...
Or how about [Old link] which you also posted in
Sheesh, would've thought you'd learnt by now
Burner of Toast
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Slacker of enormous magnitude
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
I just want to get a shout out to my boo before this thread gets shut. And all my peeps in Brooklyn.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home
boo?
is that me then
(I had to check that that meant what I thought it did first
)shaking off near others gets paraffin in my eyes
boo!
err...
Returning to a unique state of Equilibrium
3,289 posts
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
*lols at durbs*...you da man
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just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
.... those threads are old and smelly this one is new and shiney Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Tantamount to fatuity
15,967 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Written by: ben-ja-men
my other naughty spinners pet hate is ppl that dont burn off or spin out away from everyone
I don't burn off
But then I don't do fire and it's a real arse trying to get my 'glowstaffs to do it.....
Thought I'd taint this thread rather than those "old and smelly" ones with my off topic ramblings. In case you were wondering.....
Meh
Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Written by:
I just want to get a shout out to my boo before this thread gets shut. And all my peeps in Brooklyn.
*has asthma attack due to exessive laughter*
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HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
I reckon another one is your young student being lippy and cocky at you if they manage something you dont
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
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Pasta of Muppets
2,722 posts
Location: in the interwebs..., United Kingdom
Padawan must show respect to master...
Mind you, I agree on the whole 'is that real fire' I just give them the frozen fire thing from "The Day Today", and I also be quite sarcastic, as the chavs are trying to be hard, and the look on their faces as you ridicule them is hard to beat.
ohmygodlaserbeamspewpewpew!
302 posts
Location: good ol@ devon. cullompton to be precise
i hate poisters who are better than u and let u know it!
i mean we r all at different staged obviously but i hate those who stand infrount of u doin a really hard trick and laugh at u for not knowin how to do it and dont help you learn!
ive learned
life is tough... but im tougher
Tantamount to fatuity
15,967 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
I just do the weave really badly...
Meh
302 posts
Location: good ol@ devon. cullompton to be precise
lol!
ive learned
life is tough... but im tougher
HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
Written by: Cantus
I just do the weave really badly...
It's true....he does
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
Tantamount to fatuity
15,967 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Ably assited by Mint Sauce standing nearby yelling "that's not a weave, that's a 2 beat. Oh no, that's a weave....no it's a 2 beat again..." etc.
Meh
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
i havn't got to see that yet, could be of soem comical value...
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Tantamount to fatuity
15,967 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
well you're usually off fetching pizza
Meh
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
true, but the only reason i get some is due to munchies
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Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
I cant understand what a 14 yr old could be doing that could let him get the munchies
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
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
well it mystifies me how a 6 month old can poi with a blindfold on, so yeah, accept the facts willy
We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,276 posts
Location: Oxfordshire/Wiltshire, United Kingdom
I hate it when your there spinning away (or at least trying to) and another spinner comes up and joins in to see what they can learn..... after realising they are actually alot more advanced than you they then show off for a while and then move on to find someone else and dont talk to you for the rest of the meet. xxx
tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
<-- for vixendon't worry, thats just attention seeking, silly people...
We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,276 posts
Location: Oxfordshire/Wiltshire, United Kingdom
No its not that, i mean i understand that im not the best spinner and that pretty much all the moves i can do - so can everyone else. It just knocks your confidence when someone starts spinning and then just walks off. If i find someone spinning that is maybe not as advanced as i am (which isnt very often) i will at least stop and watch and maybe comment or give advice. and at least have a bit of a spin with them - which at the end of the day i guess its all about.
I guess some people are poi whores - take all the moves they can and then on to the next spinner. xxx
tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
people like that should stick thier heads in a donkey's anus and start eating away
-James
"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
it's nice at time's to just stand there with one or two other people, and just have a little spin thing going, but one problem i have is when someone asks me to teach them, because most of the things i can do i learnt by mistake, so i cant really help
We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
veteran
1,453 posts
Location: Lancs England
thats not me is it!!??
i would hate to think that was me Vix if it was im sorry before i met those lot i thought they'd be a bunch of dreadlocked hippies that smoked, set things on fire ,and drank a lot of tea but then when i met them....oh wait (PyroWill)
Tantamount to fatuity
15,967 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Oh yeah, like you're better than Vixen at spinning
Meh
veteran
1,453 posts
Location: Lancs England
oh yeh forgot that bit
before i met those lot i thought they'd be a bunch of dreadlocked hippies that smoked, set things on fire ,and drank a lot of tea but then when i met them....oh wait (PyroWill)
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