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Location: Windsor
I'm 16 and was wondering if there is anyone my ages on this site who does any type of juggling?
233 posts
Location: St. John's, Newfoundland.
Plenty. I'm 17, just turned, and i do Fire Poi, Rope Torch, 3 Ball Juggling (trying to get 5 damnit!), and i'm looking to buy myself a unicycle and a straight jacket within the next 8 months. And of the people in my area, who most all of them happen to be on this site, i'm the second oldest i believe.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a trick, this is a stunt. The difference between a stunt and a trick is that a trick is something that tricks or fools the audience, a stunt is something that only an idiot would do -Ivan, Ash Circle, 10/04/03
Magical Sock Dancer
255 posts
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
I'm only 15. Just poi, no fire yet. I play with a stick every so often. Juggleing sounds like fun, need too find a few balls to try that with around the house.
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
i'm 17 and i have some lovely sandbags on shoelaces
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Northeast USA Firespinner
122 posts
Location: Connecticut, USA
I've been 17 for a while now, started spinning fire when I was 16. I also play with devilsticks, and am slowly wandering into Contact Juggling.. and my big Innercore stick
156 posts
Location: Bristol/Exeter UK
I'm 17 and I'm poiing with a coupla home made concoctions. Hopefully I'll be setting myself alight soon!
Caz
1,262 posts
Location: Cornwall & Oxford
Im 17. Started spinning fire at 16, kind of moving off from poi into the realms of rope-dart, fire eating/breathing and CJ and possibly staff soon
Aim high and you'll know your limits, aim low and you'll never know how high you could have climbed.
Unremarkable
277 posts
Location: Cochrane, Canada
I'm only fifteen, too, and just started spinning fire (as in, like just a few weeks ago)....
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
141 posts
Location: Halifax
Whoo, go us youngins! I turn sixteen in... October... *cough*
I poi, do a bit of staff, and am starting the juggling bit. Mot'll teach me contact juggling, riiight? *makes puppy eyes*
You are not alone!
*runs away to watch the Wizard of Oz*
YAY Nove! We'll have fun when you come down this summer, no?
I like orange.And don't take my cookies.
1,325 posts
Location: San Diego, California, USA
I'm 15, and been spinning fire since I was 13.
Spin poi, staff and juggle 3 balls. Working on club juggling, devil stick, flag techniques, and gonna buy a unicycle!!
Yay young people!!
Unremarkable
277 posts
Location: Cochrane, Canada
Of course we will, Bobo! Much fun!
Now all I need is the money... *shiftily glances around*
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
18
1,903 posts
Location: Behind the couch...
well I'm now 20-teen... , I'm to old to be in this theard aren't I...
*Drags his sorry butt back out of theard... *
I can't hear you... I have a banana in my ear.
"You mean I'll have to use my brain?... but I use staff!!!" ~ ben-ja-men
564 posts
Location: Vansterdam
I'm toss'n in my chips at 18 and I'm staying there
In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird, now the world is weird and they take prozac to make it normal again.
1,810 posts
Location: London
Ok Ok I'll leave before you tell me I'm too old to be here
Bammy calmly follws in Arsn's slipper trodden steps
Anyone for a hot Coco and stories of how it was all different back in my day.....
Barmy
A kiss blown is a kiss wasted, the only kind of kiss is a kiss tasted.
I'm a woman. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating and not just a LITTLE bit scary.
81 posts
Location: EIndhoven, Holland
Yep, 18 years of age and doing poi.
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Just read the title of this post and nearly fell off my chair. Poier (or 'pooier' - pronunciation is the same) is the Dutch word for pimp
*hurries off quickly to find her pension book*
[ 18. November 2003, 04:30: Message edited by: Fabergé ]
My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely 
3,149 posts
Location: London
eeeeh aerotechs were proper then. Red n blue they were, none of this UV-White malarkey. And these new-fangled 'poi' things, they're just floppy swinging clubs for stiff wristed kids who play too much space invaders. My old mate Willy J Schatz would give em what for if he hadn't bought it at that exhibition in '39. He was trying a 17 beat waistwrap with full arm circles. Poor bugger tore himself limb from limb.
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
fae
259 posts
Location: London, United Kingdom
i'm young too....
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?"
member
26 posts
Location: wollongong,australia
think ill have to follow arsn out as well:(
sigh..
not young enough.
but definatly not too old!
did some one say they saw a flying purple people eater??
605 posts
Location: East London Wilds
Gah, this thread just scares me. At least I know I'm younger than BamBam.
Luv 'n' Lemons
purity :: clarity :: balance
1,810 posts
Location: London
Please don't remind me
Actually I don't care because I don't feel my age today
Bammy
[ 18. November 2003, 04:22: Message edited by: BamBam ]
A kiss blown is a kiss wasted, the only kind of kiss is a kiss tasted.
I'm a woman. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating and not just a LITTLE bit scary.
1,079 posts
Location: Canterbury, UK
haha im 17 and all u oldies r making urselves look bad...
i only do poi right now, but i aim to make it my soul skill so that i can really excel with those big balls of fire, so im not just "good" with lots of things.
haha oldies! teehee, im more suple!!!
D.B.
X x X x X
Ship off the starboard! sound general quarters! noise and light discipline! man the cannons! GET ME THE RUM!
Master of the Free Hug Program
1,810 posts
Location: London
Really....
A kiss blown is a kiss wasted, the only kind of kiss is a kiss tasted.
I'm a woman. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating and not just a LITTLE bit scary.
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
sole skill?!
bugger that man - get some clubs, a contact ball, a stick and a pack of cards (i need someone to learn sleight of hand from ).
and don't worry that you're not as supple as some of us brittle boned aficianado's - we've just had more time to stretch is all
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
883 posts
Location: Stevenage
I got my poi for my 17th birthday, in august! I'm 17 and damned proud of it! Why I hear you ask?
I honestly have no idea.... I guess I'm not really.
Shut up Mary, shut up.
Monkeys monkeys and bananas
940 posts
I'm 22 and feel old.... sigh, back to rereading Tennyson. "Old age hath yet his honor and his toil / death closes all, yet something ere the end / some work of noble note, may yet be done / not unbecoming men who strove with gods"
But back when I was a spring chicken in high school, my friends (ages 13-18, I guess) were the ones who hung by their knees from the poles in the subway and juggled upside down on our way home from school. ::drifts off into pleasant memories::
E pluribus unum, baby.
141 posts
Location: Halifax
Somehow I have a feeling all the old people *coughBamBamcough* are gonna hang out here, attempting to hold onto their youth. *tragic sigh*
I don't know how people can feel an age. That's always confused me. I don't feel an age, I feel like me. And in being me, I can be silly, serious, smart, and stupid. Acting an age never made sence, because an 11 year old and a 17 year old can act the same way on a regular basis, be it silly or sophisticated. At times, I may feel older, or younger, but never a certain age. I have never felt an age. O.o'
Right then...
I like orange.And don't take my cookies.
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
quote:don't worry, you'll understand when you grow up...
Originally posted by Bobo DCL:
I don't know how people can feel an age. That's always confused me. I don't feel an age, I feel like me. And in being me, I can be silly, serious, smart, and stupid. Acting an age never made sence, because an 11 year old and a 17 year old can act the same way on a regular basis, be it silly or sophisticated. At times, I may feel older, or younger, but never a certain age. I have never felt an age.
sorry, couldn't resist
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
141 posts
Location: Halifax
Okay, but still, how do you feel a number?!
*gets mental image of a person with a blindfold on, feeling the shape and edges of a block number*
Okay, no O.o'
But... I dun wanna grow up!!! *bawls*
I like orange.And don't take my cookies.
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
mmmmmm, 88...
*drool*
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
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