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Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
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Depends where you are in the world i think. In Britain we mostly refer to ourselves as spinners (and fire spinners if you're so inclined).

Poi spinner, staff spinner etc.



Aussies tend to call themselves twirlers - no matter how gay that makes them sound. Odd in such a macho country



Lots of people, the world over, refer to themselves as fire dancers.



Object manipulator tends to come from the contact field more than any where else.



People who gain employment from Poi and staff often say that they are fire artists/artistes. maybe so they don't just sound like everyone else. It allows a feeling mystery perhaps...



Then there are people that are called by the objects they choose to spin.

"oh him? he's a glowstringer"

"She's a devil sticker"

I noticed a lot of people in various countries simply adding an er to there toys. So Poier and staffer.

etc



Some that does Diabolo is a diaboloist.



Not sure what you call someone who does meteors though. Meteoricist?

"I'll carry this....It's harder to spill a hat" - Chellybean
"...like a rabbit caught in a lighthouse?" - Chellybean

meteorologist perhaps? then at least we'd have people that know what they're talking about

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Aussies tend to call themselves twirlers - no matter how gay that makes them sound. Odd in such a macho country



OMGOMG that's sooo spot in it's scary.
C@ntus, that's a pretty accurate run-down too!

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what's the collective name for Poi & staff? toys!

i call my glo-poi my babies. gave up using that name for my Firepoi after the strange looks i'd get when "going outside to burn my babies"

i refuse to be called a poier though. "pooier" (pronounced the same as poier) means pimp or panderer in dutch spinner will do i reckon....

My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely

for fire peeps - well, I say fire spinners, fire performers, or even fire peeps. many people also think I am refering to them when I say burners as well, but I am actually refering to people who are part of the burningman community when I say that. even though there is an overlap of the two groups, I try to keep that one strait! if it is fire somethingorother - then it has to do with Poi Staff meteors or whatever. If I say burn- or burning-<whatever> then that should refer to burningman type stuff!

all is clear? good, because I expect everyone to adopt that convention now!

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