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MikeIconGOLD Member Pooh-Bah 2,109 posts Location: Philadelphia, PA - USA
Posted: A move that burns off excess fuel before a set. I know staffers hold the staff between both hands and roll it really fast creating 2 huge fireballs as their burnoff. Dont know of any real poi burnoffs.
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vanizeSILVER Member Carpal \'Tunnel 3,899 posts Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted: a burnoff with poi is when you don't spin out the excess fuel from dunking your wicks first and then you light up and spin them in a circle on the ground before you start your real spinning. This puts you in the middle of a circle of fire as you start as most of that excess fuel winds up on the ground and lighs in th process. Warning: It can get quite warm in there! Especially if you have larger wicks.
This won't usually work with parrafin or kero, but with white gas it can be rather impressive. just don't do it when it is windy. also be advised that some fuel will always remain on the ground after the fire dies, which can make your spinning area very slippery, depending on the type of surface you are on. Slippery + spinning fire is a bad combination, so choose the situations in which you do a burnoff VERY carefully!
you will also find that the burnoff will leave excess fuel in your wicks (much more than spinning out will), and so you may get drips of fuel (sometimes on fire) flung at you or at your audience.
it looks cool, but is usually not advisable to do.
-v-
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funkenSILVER Member journeyman 92 posts Location: Germany
Posted: and don`t forget our nature!!!
KnoxiousGOLD Member . 420 posts Location: United Kingdom
Posted: There have been threads about this previously too...
another neato poi burnoff is to spin wall plane, lift your foot and hit the sole of your shoe at the right angle that the poi spin and d wee fireballs at your feet.
xdave
squarefishSILVER Member (...trusty steed of the rodeo midget...) 403 posts Location: the state of flux, Ireland
Posted: I know of three types of burnoff but I'm sure more exist
1. staff burnoff; either by hand (between palms) or by cord (wrapped around staff and pulled).
The aim is to rapidly rotate the freshly dipped and lit staff around its shortest axis (as though its rolling across a floor) this has the effect of spraying out the excess fuell in a fine mist from the wick, this then ignites as a large fire ball at both ends of the staff.
This is (usually) done at the start of a burn
2. Poi burnoffs Either done by (a)dragging them on the ground as described above or
(b) by lashing out with the poi as though using a whip , again this creates a fine mist of fuel which ignites as a (small) fireball
This last one looks very nice because with practice you can have a few fireballs from the one re-fueling,
enjoy
Big AndyBRONZE Member member 186 posts Location: Dallas, Tx, USA
Posted: Hmmm... I'm having a hard time visualizing your number 2 poi burnoff, squarefish. Do you mean simply doing an underhanded whip crack with the poi head as the flipper thingy? Does that realy work? doesn't seem like it would. also seems liable to splatter lit fuel in your face, unless I'm misunderstanding how you're saying to do it.
Also, knoxious, I'm having a hard time visualizing your burnoff technique as well.
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squarefishSILVER Member (...trusty steed of the rodeo midget...) 403 posts Location: the state of flux, Ireland
Posted: Yep thats what i'm saying alright,without the nasty splattering though.
Dragon7GOLD Member addict 625 posts Location: Aotearoa (NZ), New Zealand
Posted: Squarefish u forgot the..."hit your poi together and watch the carnage" burnoff
Burn ON!
Paddyback from the dead...sort of 884 posts Location: 43°41'N 79°38'W
Posted: You wouldn't have to watch for splatter, because the splatter ignites as flame. You WILL want to keep an eye on that flame tho.
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