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who gets to use the term "poi" and use it for all swinging, even though most people agree poi is a maori word? who specifically decided to use the term "poi" to describe all stringed activies some not derived from the original, traditional, poi
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Written by: Stone
OneWheelDave, according to your rationale if someone purchased some plastic electoglow clubs and incorporated some contact rolls plus some liquid type moves into a flowing routine then they wouldn’t be juggling.
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"So is it fair to say that the reason you want to emphasise the difference between glowstringing and poi, is to encourage glowstringers to develop and innovate a style that fully exploits the characteristics that set glowstring equipment apart from poi equipment (eg lightness)? In conjunction with a belief that constraints (in terms of moves used etc), far from diminishing the style, will actually progress it."
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Written by: Stone
Apply that to glow v fire clubs, and to me it’s like saying someone juggling three fire clubs is different to someone juggling five electro clubs, especially that someone incorporates some liquid or strobing or whatever into their routine.
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What is this arrogance that some members of the poi community feel the need to say to the GS-ers 'you are wrong; you are doing exactly the stuff that we are'.
Written by:is one way of dealing with it. another would be for the 'opposite group' to back off, and avoid future confrontation by letting glowstringers escape the feeling that they have some deep roots in poi, or that they are a little off-shoot of a much larger, more important plant.
the understanding that the opposite group has a right to call it something different
please help keep the world clean - others may wish to use it
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
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If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
Love is the law.
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The Māori word "poi" means "ball." More specifically, this refers to a form of juggling with balls on ropes, held in the hands and swung in various circular patterns, similar to club-twirling. This was traditionally practiced by women an exercise to increase flexibility of the wrists and hands, and by men to increase strength in the arms and coordination. It developed into a traditional performance art practiced mostly by women.
Today, poi swinging is seeing much wider popularity. Poi swingers use everything from rolled-up socks to expensive devices with light-emitting diodes and combine swinging with body moves. This is fire dancing when the poi are made of wicks and set on fire.
Written by: Cynicdave1
we have seen battles gone wrong. i have seen people getting stabbed at raves, people fighting over girls, etc. We at the same time have had a lot of fun together
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they do porridge."
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"While some HOP-ers may use glowstick poi, that doesn't make them glowstringers."
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I'd also say that while some glowstring, that doesn't make them glowstringers: it's the prerogative of the individual, which is why I've omitted mention of either online-based community
Written by: coleman
i span glowsticks on strings before i knew sh!t about the american scene.
was i glowsticking then without my knowledge, or was i just simply poi-ing with glowsticks...?
i.e. why does glowsticking get set aside from all the other poi tools - why is it not glowstick poi-ing?
Written by: Adrillf
And yes when you did use glowsticks, you were glowsticking. You may have not known the name for it or what you were doing, but you were still glowsticking. For me it is not the moves that get the different name, because moves are interchangable from one medium to another, for me it is the object that you are spinning the calls for another name.
Written by: Cynicdave1
it's what you DO with the tool that set things apart. If you play basketball with a soccerball, you are playing basketball. If you are juggling chainsaws, you aren't ... chopping down trees, but juggling.
Written by: coleman
so if i am poi-ing with glowsticks, am i poi-ing or glowsticking...?
by your examples above and your point that "it is not the tool but what you are doing with it", i would be poi-ing with glowsticks.
if you can describe to me how it is possible to glowstick with poi, i will be totally convinced that glowsticking is an art separate from poi but as it stands, i cannot.
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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Written by: Jo
As far as I'm concerned, Dave (and I think I speak for most here)...
you are welcome to call it glowstringing AS LONG AS we can call it poi.
the end?
Jo.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
To do: More Firedrums 08 video?
Wildfire/US East coast fire footage
LA/EDC glow/fire footage
Fresno fire
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
"So Miss, I think you win the prize... A mormon egyptologist in a firespinning chat room... that's gotta be a record of some kind"
-NYC
Thanks, NYC,but I quit mormonism now XD
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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Gs.cers not giving enough hugs? PLUR it up!
And if you visit the "Post Whore Family" thread over in gs.c's sandbox, adrillf and I will welcome you to our "home." haha
And beofre someone else does it.
heehee
missegyptology: I'm gonna be a terrorist when I grow up anyway
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