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Posted: 30th Apr 2003
damm...it wont load at uni :-( cant d/l anyfing...grrrr

If life was a ball of fire...i would be the poi sustaining it

Posted: 30th Apr 2003
As classic as it is, you've got to hand it to the man for sheer enthusiasm, sound effects and style

It bought a great grin to my day to see that vid - just have fun with whatever you are doing - bugger any potential critics.

rotflmao

Posted: 1st May 2003
I get sound but no picture

we eat and we drink and we smoke and we try!

Posted: 1st May 2003
ok, I got it, go to the page first and then click on the link. (got tot eh page by copy-paste the link, then remove the last part of the link) It will play through the internet browser)

we eat and we drink and we smoke and we try!

Posted: 1st May 2003
thank you astar

with some people you have to draw their passions out of them and others....

loved it, is there more

Posted: 1st May 2003
I still think you shouldn't have posted it here astar and sent it in as a col4 submission

Posted: 1st May 2003
I can't load this video at all

I tried to cut/paste it too...all I get is a bunch of on-screen typed-characters gobbledeegook

Is this a platform issue? (Im on a Mac)

Posted: 1st May 2003
I couldn't open it using netscape, so had to use IE instead

That's about as much help technologically speaking I can give you......

Posted: 1st May 2003
Sigh

I tried IE but it still didn't work

Posted: 2nd May 2003
The things one sees when one does not have a gun.

It's my world - you all just happen to live in it.

Posted: 2nd May 2003
heh heh, i love it!!! note that
1 - he turns on his axis way more than most firetwirler
2 - he varies his tempo, way more than most twirlers

yes, he has little control or perhaps even foresight of his routine, but the guy's a star nonetheless!!

and no i am not being a sarcastic prick, i mean it!!!

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Posted: 2nd May 2003
that was sweet! certainly made me grin. Gotta hand it to the guy for sheer outright ballsyness of doing that in front of a camera. How on earth did you find it Astar?

Dilbert's Words of Wisdom -
I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either!
You are slower than a herd of turtles stampedeing through peanut butter!

Oh yeah.... Don't tell the ants

Posted: 2nd May 2003
Click Here for another version of that file, with some Star wars FX added...

...and that's it for now.

Posted: 2nd May 2003
amazing technique, the most hilarious staff video

ever.to those who havent seen it yet, hurry up

before it will be taken away!

Posted: 2nd May 2003
oh please please please tell me its a send up...

it must be (or am i just being really really thick?)

he gives it some tho doesnt he!

Posted: 2nd May 2003
DAMN!!! Now I need to find myself a good laywer. This guy TOTALLY stole my performance routine!

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. --Mark Twain

Posted: 2nd May 2003
i so much prefer the star wars one....had me in stitches..

the story at the start is too fast tho...hard to read..

Posted: 2nd May 2003
now that was wicked!

although i do have to say I like a few of his moves... maybe not clean cut, but the man has ideas...

Your life is ending one minute at a time...
So live it.

Posted: 3rd May 2003
oooh...I've seen this one, but instead of the swishey sword noises, it had the peter gunn theme playing in the background.

Much more comical with Peter Gunn.

The love of my life thought I was going crazy because I kept bursting into spontaneous laughter for about half an hour after seeing it.

I absolutely love the "angry canoe paddler" bits where he tries to attack the camera. His body seems to wobble even more than the staff does!

But, hey, kudos for doing it in the first place. I wonder how long agao this was filmed, he might actually be really good now...

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Posted: 7th May 2003
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Posted: 7th May 2003
charles the copyright says 14.04.2003 that it was made.
it tells you stuff with a scrolling message under the video frame in media player.

Posted: 7th May 2003
watch out for the next installment next month. i cant wait

Posted: 7th May 2003
Smooth!

See, this is all well and good until he arrives n the boards next week and finds he's been ripped to shreds by us all (apart from a few...)

Still - I'm sure we were all there once (maybe without the sound effects and falling over, but close) and isn't enthusiasm the main thing?

I think he's been idolising Darth Maul for a bit too long.

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Slacker of enormous magnitude

Posted: 7th May 2003
hey thanks for the totally sweet star wars links guys! the vid rawks!

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Posted: 7th May 2003
I actually thought he was good in some sence..am i making sence , anyway i'll have to agree with Charles there...he might be really good now but no-one will ever know

Mind you it was funny watching him because it reminded of myself a few years back (Laughs)

Once again i thought he was good...post some more vids like that

Loki

watching the world go by!!!!

Trick ferret on the making hehe!!!!
Everybodyknows me as (TriX)

Posted: 7th May 2003
Loki then I will have to put up some videos of myself

Posted: 8th May 2003
hi guys.

im the one in that video. i put a lot of effort into it, and its kind of upsetting that some of u to be laughing at it. I had thought the people on HoP would at least appreciate that i took the time and put in the work to get that much done - even if im not as good as u guys.

May your staff spin fast and your poi always miss your balls.

Posted: 8th May 2003
just joking. wasnt really me. bet some people felt a teeny little bit bad.....

i watched that video and i was blown away. comedy value aside, it made me think. im guessing that guy hasnt been spinning for a fraction of the time that i have. and yet, i watched that and often thought "wow - i've gotta try doing that move".

its made me really question my spinning. i guess maybe after seeing that, it just seems like ive got too caught up in the "normal" staff spinning style, too caught up in moves, and pushing moves further and further, trying to get more spins, etc. heres a guy who has got some top class moves, and i bet if he had spent as much time practicing that routine as i have spent spinning, it's b ****ing amazing.

its made me think whats the point of al this "technical" spinning? maybe the moves i've learnt, and that ive used as the basis from which to learn new moves, and to develop a style, have just trapped me into spinningin a very particular way.

i honestly think that man should be given a honorary award or inclusion in the next CoL. on the one hand, he does something that i dont often see spinners do: he unashamedly goes for the comedy aspect. i think spinning means so much to us that we dont even think of doing something like that. on the other hand, he has got some nice moves, and he does move around a lot more than most twirlers - and i'me sure he's only had a fraction of the practice we've had. i think its too easy to ignore the positives due to the comedy element.

thats what the little voices and i have come up with so far. going off to sit in a corner and o a lot of thinking about my staff twirling.

May your staff spin fast and your poi always miss your balls.

Posted: 8th May 2003
the beard!
U'r evil man...
I read the posts and had a massive guilt rush after reading ur first one!
does make u think tho... poor bloke, here he is having the piss taken out of him by half the world! (it is funny tho!)

so...
threee cheeers for the video guy for being so funky and daring to make the vid in the first place:

hip hip
hooorayy!
hip hip
Hooooorrrraaaayyyyy!
hip hip
HHHHHOOOOOOOOORRRRRRAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!

Your life is ending one minute at a time...
So live it.

Posted: 8th May 2003
eh we needed a post like yours in a thread like this, beard!
nice beard, by the way!

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