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Posted: 24th Feb 2005
Well hello and welcome firstly!!!!!!
good choice goin for staff btw, for stuff to do with it go to the staff forum, ok where to get a staff, the general concensus(sp) is to find the lenght you like first (broom handle with tennis balls on the end) to get used to it all, then either a staff from here, www.firetoys.com they are a lil expensive, or look for bluecat and get a te pooka staff, or maybe build your own.

good luck, be warned its ovely addictive!!!!!!

Lava

Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars

Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film

Posted: 24th Feb 2005
As for the moves, tips etc, look a bit harder

ie the link at the top of the page to https://www.homeofpoi.com/lessons/staff_lessons.php?lesson=1

And the search thingy in the corner to about 49000 pages, amongst which you're bound to find all you need.

What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau

Posted: 24th Feb 2005
oh try ado-p's contact thread when you get in to contact, check out the videos thread, or ask in the staff forum, videos you want mainly for insperation would be those by bluecat, ben-ja-men, mcp, check the videos from huish and around thread (shamless self plugging) oh this site might help as well https://void.printf.net/~meghan/#reverse

Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars

Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film

Posted: 24th Feb 2005
ok so for starts

i dont like any of the staffs in shops at the mo, so i make my own, and i suggest thats what you do as well, or at least ask a staff maker to make you a custom one, i would suggest one by blue cat or strugz they both make good staffs, i also make staffs but its hard to trumpet you own gear to someone...

i think you might find the hop staff lessons good, it will teach you the basics

but if you wnat to learn contact staff, which most of the uk people do alsongside normal staff moves, then i would check out this [Old link]

it was made by a guy in syd, Oz who started to learn contact really well off hop and did it on his own, a bloody good guy to...

best thing is to get out and get to some meets, with poeple who would be able to show you some moves and some staffs

if you do buy a staff from a shop, dont order one off the net, go into a shop and pick up a few, test weights, see what size you like, and get a feel for what you think is right

the normal rule of thumb is to buy a staff 1 foot shorter than you are.

any more question sgive us a hollor

Step (el-nombrie)

Posted: 25th Feb 2005


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