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Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
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Recently customized my somewhat boring fire staff with eyelets and chains on the end for sum dubble wicking madness but i can atatch all sorts now which makes for grate viewing.
Ne1 els don ne customizations?
Recently customized my somewhat boring fire staff with eyelets and chains on the end for sum dubble wicking madness but i can atatch all sorts now which makes for grate viewing.
Ne1 els don ne customizations?
110% MONKEY EVERY TIME ALL THE TIME JUST CANT STOP THE MONKEY
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Location: London
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i remember a guy i met ages ago who had a funky lo-fi technostick
it had all sorts of different led units and some bike lights and a tough plastic flourescent tube on it and load of other little bits and pieces and dangly stuff.
it also had a jet lighter on one end which was cool
but using it while spinning would be a bit tricky. never saw it attempted...
it was all bound together with duct tape and electrical tape, some of which had been melted so it was all tough and solid now.
and despite all appearances to the contrary it was really nicely balanced for spinning. although contact was risky due to strange shape and pokey bits
but i thought it was a quite awesome stick
i remember a guy i met ages ago who had a funky lo-fi technostick
it had all sorts of different led units and some bike lights and a tough plastic flourescent tube on it and load of other little bits and pieces and dangly stuff.
it also had a jet lighter on one end which was cool
but using it while spinning would be a bit tricky. never saw it attempted...
it was all bound together with duct tape and electrical tape, some of which had been melted so it was all tough and solid now.
and despite all appearances to the contrary it was really nicely balanced for spinning. although contact was risky due to strange shape and pokey bits
but i thought it was a quite awesome stick
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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my housemate jordan in one of his more lucid moments of mushrrom fuelled madness decided to get all the sparkly things he could tape htem to a curtain pole and go a bit mad with a stik in the back garden.
seriously hes like a magpie. this staff had glowing chjanging flashing strobing light all over it.
then he dropped it and all the bits a. snapped or b. fell off
hey ho sellotape isnt a good staff consrtuction tool
my housemate jordan in one of his more lucid moments of mushrrom fuelled madness decided to get all the sparkly things he could tape htem to a curtain pole and go a bit mad with a stik in the back garden.
seriously hes like a magpie. this staff had glowing chjanging flashing strobing light all over it.
then he dropped it and all the bits a. snapped or b. fell off
hey ho sellotape isnt a good staff consrtuction tool
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Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
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Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
Posted:
im considerin putin two bars of wood in a cross each end and hangin led's from them for sum crucificial madnes.
Btw anyone know the ideal aperature (in f stops) to go wit a slow frame rate coz i have one of the kind of old cameras and i wanna try and get trails.
im considerin putin two bars of wood in a cross each end and hangin led's from them for sum crucificial madnes.
Btw anyone know the ideal aperature (in f stops) to go wit a slow frame rate coz i have one of the kind of old cameras and i wanna try and get trails.
110% MONKEY EVERY TIME ALL THE TIME JUST CANT STOP THE MONKEY
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Location: London
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depends how fast you spin and what you want your pic to look like.
i reckon a one or one-half second exposure should be the shiznit you're looking for.
but experimentation is the route to enlightenment and injury
depends how fast you spin and what you want your pic to look like.
i reckon a one or one-half second exposure should be the shiznit you're looking for.
but experimentation is the route to enlightenment and injury
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
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I'll bear that in mind. Does anyone have any idea if fire staff dueling looks good?
I'll bear that in mind. Does anyone have any idea if fire staff dueling looks good?
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Location: London
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There'e a really funny video my friends and I made where I have my staff and my mate has his poi (all on fire), and we're deciding which is best by fighting. On second thoughts, that probably wasn't such a great idea...
There'e a really funny video my friends and I made where I have my staff and my mate has his poi (all on fire), and we're deciding which is best by fighting. On second thoughts, that probably wasn't such a great idea...
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If you're looking for a sparring partner, my friend Dave's built a fire three section that im sure he'd love to fight someone with...
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I'll bear that in mind. Does anyone have any idea if fire staff dueling looks good?
If you're looking for a sparring partner, my friend Dave's built a fire three section that im sure he'd love to fight someone with...
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They're the one bleeding on the ground.
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Location: Bristol
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i made my staff in to a glow staff by making little bags with ties on so i can put some light up hacksacks in and tie them to the end of the staff. Looks ok, but feels weird cos it's much heavier.
just a thought. i'm only a baby staffer though, so don't listen to me.
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i made my staff in to a glow staff by making little bags with ties on so i can put some light up hacksacks in and tie them to the end of the staff. Looks ok, but feels weird cos it's much heavier.
just a thought. i'm only a baby staffer though, so don't listen to me.
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I wasn't going to reply cause I've never done this and I could be speaking doody.
But since everyone else's decended from Jonny Tightlips....
In my opinion a good way's watch some capoeria. Start slowly the way they do. Maybe have some kinda of system, like each person gets 2 turns to strike and the the first 2 should be horizontal high (so the other can duck) and the 3rd should be vertical, right of centre (so they can roll sideways out of the way).
That's just an example but the lesson is if you both know what's going to happen next and take turns and avoid, I'd imagine you could make a fight look good.
I wasn't going to reply cause I've never done this and I could be speaking doody.
But since everyone else's decended from Jonny Tightlips....In my opinion a good way's watch some capoeria. Start slowly the way they do. Maybe have some kinda of system, like each person gets 2 turns to strike and the the first 2 should be horizontal high (so the other can duck) and the 3rd should be vertical, right of centre (so they can roll sideways out of the way).
That's just an example but the lesson is if you both know what's going to happen next and take turns and avoid, I'd imagine you could make a fight look good.
I live in a world of infinite possibilities.
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it looks f***ing amaaaaazing!
my daddy used to do fight direction (shakespeare stylie) with wooden sticks (as well as swords and stuff). I can't remember them all now, but i'm sure i could ask him and post some moves up if anyone wants any.
it looks f***ing amaaaaazing!
my daddy used to do fight direction (shakespeare stylie) with wooden sticks (as well as swords and stuff). I can't remember them all now, but i'm sure i could ask him and post some moves up if anyone wants any.
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smit agrees the roda in caporia would be something to experience to get some idea of how to do stuff as it is all spin return spin return type movements.
i reccomend doing caporia generally as its good fun, but any sort of martial art would help. you can always alter a standard kata to be done by two people and make it so they miss each other. each person can then practice teir own kata remember it and when the two (three,four) of you all meet up youll know what your doing off by heart and the missing each other for real practice can begin.
just an idea
smit agrees the roda in caporia would be something to experience to get some idea of how to do stuff as it is all spin return spin return type movements.
i reccomend doing caporia generally as its good fun, but any sort of martial art would help. you can always alter a standard kata to be done by two people and make it so they miss each other. each person can then practice teir own kata remember it and when the two (three,four) of you all meet up youll know what your doing off by heart and the missing each other for real practice can begin.
just an idea
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Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
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Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
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Cool, Btw does anyone know why a staff throw (wit two icks on each end) comes out like an X sapeo long expsure?
Cool, Btw does anyone know why a staff throw (wit two icks on each end) comes out like an X sapeo long expsure?
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maybe i'm stupid, but that didn't make any sense to me in the slightest.
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Cool, Btw does anyone know why a staff throw (wit two icks on each end) comes out like an X sapeo long expsure?
maybe i'm stupid, but that didn't make any sense to me in the slightest.
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
110% MONKEY EVERY TIME ALL THE TIME JUST CANT STOP THE MONKEY
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Location: London
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Location: London
Posted:
i understand it all, apart from the word "sapeo"
i've had it written on a post-it note stuck to my monitor at work today, since i read this post this morning, and have been pondering it's deeper meaning for some time without success. Its sounding more and more like the name of japanese car, though.
anyway, the questions pretty hard to answer without knowing what angle you throw the staff at (spinning horizontal or vertical), and where the picture is taken from.
But once you know both those it should be pretty obvious shouldn't it?
*thinks*
if it's an X shape then the staff is probably moving along the axis of rotation at a similar rate to it's spin i thiiiiink...
so a helicopter throw, yes?
as to why? well, um, because. That's where the ends go when you do that.
Bear in mind that you don't usually see or think of the world as a long exposure, so it's often different to how you'd expect.
i understand it all, apart from the word "sapeo"
i've had it written on a post-it note stuck to my monitor at work today, since i read this post this morning, and have been pondering it's deeper meaning for some time without success. Its sounding more and more like the name of japanese car, though.
anyway, the questions pretty hard to answer without knowing what angle you throw the staff at (spinning horizontal or vertical), and where the picture is taken from.
But once you know both those it should be pretty obvious shouldn't it?
*thinks*
if it's an X shape then the staff is probably moving along the axis of rotation at a similar rate to it's spin i thiiiiink...
so a helicopter throw, yes?
as to why? well, um, because. That's where the ends go when you do that.
Bear in mind that you don't usually see or think of the world as a long exposure, so it's often different to how you'd expect.
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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Sorry it was the bluddy keyboard it meant 'shape on' but missd out some letters. I'll put it up in the pictures section soon
Sorry it was the bluddy keyboard it meant 'shape on' but missd out some letters. I'll put it up in the pictures section soon
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okay if you think that a long exposure records every moment of the staffs path in a trail.
then think that in helicopter throw the staff rotates so that it creates a turning drag on the lens of the camera.
i have typed a crappy little diagram thus
imagine this to be the camera looking at the staff and with some massive feat of imagination think of these x's and dashes as a staff on fire being thrown in helicopter being veiwed by a camera.
X------------X side on again
...X------X turning back
........X to the camera at this point both the flames occupy the same space
...X------X turning
X------------X side on
asyou can see as you throw the staff up it 'drags' the fire over the lens in such a way as to create an elongated X
first noticed this with devilsticks when taking photos.
okay if you think that a long exposure records every moment of the staffs path in a trail.
then think that in helicopter throw the staff rotates so that it creates a turning drag on the lens of the camera.
i have typed a crappy little diagram thus
imagine this to be the camera looking at the staff and with some massive feat of imagination think of these x's and dashes as a staff on fire being thrown in helicopter being veiwed by a camera.
X------------X side on again
...X------X turning back
........X to the camera at this point both the flames occupy the same space
...X------X turning
X------------X side on
asyou can see as you throw the staff up it 'drags' the fire over the lens in such a way as to create an elongated X
first noticed this with devilsticks when taking photos.
my original signature was tooo long.
this one is shorter
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yeh, on topic, one of my mates who does staff resently made a tri-sectional staff.
that being a staff with three sections linked by short chains, its really wikid but i almost axed myself useing it, and he told me a couple of days ago he put a wick on it which'd b awesome
yeh, on topic, one of my mates who does staff resently made a tri-sectional staff.
that being a staff with three sections linked by short chains, its really wikid but i almost axed myself useing it, and he told me a couple of days ago he put a wick on it which'd b awesome
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