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And so, announcing the worst kept secret in history.

Uberpoi will almost certainly be held on the weekend of the 16th of July.

Teachers will be confirmed in the next few weeks. but don't you worry, they're going to be DAMN good.

price will be �45.
why the increase you ask?

because the uberstaff teachers were paid a very small amount, certainly not enough for the time they put in. and we would like to pay people a reasonable amount for their work. �45 is still very cheap when compared to most weekends of this type (approx �40 per day is the usual rate).

Accomodation will be fun to sort out, but i'm going to try to find a cheap location for all.

i am away in bristol for the next week, so will not keep you up to date until after i get back.

*invites excitement*



much love

Rob

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

this weekend was amazing for so many reasons

to my friends i saw again, to the new friends i made, to each and every spinner that was there, to all of the kind and generous hosts, and to all others that helped make this weekend happen, i would like to say thank-you from the bottom of my heart.



i will never forget those five days

till next time oobaspinners


coleman. x

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

Wow. What can I say?!!

I've just had one of the best weekends of my life - what a fantastic group of people, inspiration and poi-epiphanys

Thank you so much to Rob and the assembled gurus.

Thanks to the pooks and Edinburgers who made us feel so welcome.

And much thanks to Drew for teaching me to change direction.

Hope to see some of you tomorrow in Falmouth

Love and hugs
Clare xxx

Getting to the other side

That was an incredible weekend, i cant believe how much i learnt!

Thankyou to all the wonderful teachers who showed me silly new moves and arashi for introducing me to the wonders of yoga (still a bit achey!)

Thanks to everyone who was there for making my birthday such a memorable one, i'll not forget it in a hurry!

Also big huge giant thanks to Dunc, George and Rossco for putting me up for two nights and being great company when we broke down

Aim high and you'll know your limits, aim low and you'll never know how high you could have climbed.

Well, I've made it back home and had a little bit of sleep... and my brain still doesn't work!

I want to say a huge thanks to everyone for a great weekend.
I learned so much, and the doors of possibility have been opened up wide for me to explore.
Thanks to Kit and Kat for putting me up for the weekend... and for giving me a room and a double bed to myself!

I have a special thank you to Rob, for organising everything, and being such a star.
To Bam Bam, for teaching me the matrix.
To Nick and his flowers.
And finally for Coleman, for totally screwing with my head!

Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.

URGENT
Hi guys...this is not really, Nick, it is Andrea, using his codes... sneaky hey...

While N just lost his mind at Uberpoi, I obviously did not have one to start with... Oops. While there I managed to lose something else very important to me!

It is a little plastic container of beaded silver necklacesand some other stuff~( including my favorite ring!) I had brought it to show someone, and then sell to get enough funds to survive to the end of the trip... I lost it somehow on Saturday, probably just before the UberBATTLE ???

~If any one found it, I would be overjoyed to provide you with my undying gratitude, welcome you to home in beautiful SaltSpring Island, create a custom jewellery design of your choice,offer you tigerbalm for your nipples...??? or ?
whatever you desire...

I am so hoping it gets found, I simply can not afford to lose so much! And it is my art, so it is sad to lose it this way. I may be getting very thin my last few weeks here...If you saw it or have it, email nick. or find me at falmouth, or email me at rowanlee@fastmail.ca, or tell Rob...

Other than this mishap, things have been extraordinarily brilliant. thanks for a fabulous time... I loved meeting eveyone, and learned so much.

see you at Falmouth!
smiles,
andrea

"They're interdimensional fractal intelligences. That's why they wear funny shoes."

Rob ya flaming beauty! I didn't even get a chance to give you a big hug goodbye, so here's a virtual one til next time . Well done, you put together an amazingly class weekend!
Nick that was truely inspiring stuff, I'll be breaking as many locks as possible til we bump into each other again!
Drew, cheers for the movementdanciness
Nice one to everyone who shared this deadlyness
To that lovely girl whoes name I cannot remember (), who gave me a set of flaming poi and a red hat, I have a terrible confession to make, not only did I forget to give you back your hat at the end of the night...but I lost it on the bus, I'm so sorry! I'll try and find a hat for you for the next uberness!
I also managed to lose my fire poi somewhere along the line....if anyone finds them please give me a shout and mind them til we can be reunited ( 4inch wicks with too long ball chain and no handles).
I never got a chance to get one of those uber teeshirts, any xlarge ones left rob?
And a renegade to finish it off, funkilicious...cheers to whoever's flat that was, if you find a shoe in the rubble it might be mine , what a silly idea to leave so soon after uberness
Don't worry bonzai, not your flat, thank you so much for letting us stay, and cheers to your flatmates for everything.
Oh and cheers to everyone I forgot to say cheers to.
Nice one,
see ye all soon (EJC anyone?)
Ronan

Don't bolt your door with a boiled carrot...

Couple of things...

Firstly as everyone has already said: Huge big thank you to Rob and all those involved in organising the weekend and teaching workshops, it was amazing. Despite not being able to spin I watched and I think I've learnt some things to try when i can spin again. It was great to see so many talented spinners in one place.

Secondly huge big thank you to our wonderful house guests. 2bags for trying to kill me with my own crutches, garth for having dinner on the table when I got in on friday, mand for teaching me how to make flags, and nate for shouting at me, hitting me and generally abusing me in to the early hours of tuesday morning in an attempt to teach me moves.

and finally it was great to put some faces and talent to the names.



Ronan, I believe you are probably referring to Kit's red hat. I will break it to her gently that you lost it in case she hasn't read this yet.

Andrea, i really hope your stuff turns up.

One day i'll learn to resist gravity...

Quick one as I'm Uber Busy at work having missed off two days for uberpoi (one unplanned due to missing plane!)

Much thank's to Kit and Kat for putting up some Random spinners.

Much thanks to Rob for organising it all.

Thanks to the Teachers for blowing my mind. :Explodingsmilery:

Thanks to everyone for generally being great.

See most of you at Falmouth!

"**grumble*spuriouswindmills*grumble**" - Coleman
"if poi was only for girls there wouldnt be many good poi spinners...." - Nx

I like Languages.

Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing STAY SAFE! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hug.gif" alt="" />

yeah, that's because you are keeping a crippled girl up until 4:30 teaching her moves she can't do and that's not mention all the abuse I got for calling the police station and getting your camera back for you!

Honestly

(please note: nate is not a monster, he couldn't have been nicer)

One day i'll learn to resist gravity...

I like Languages.

Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing STAY SAFE! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hug.gif" alt="" />

WW!

Thank you Rob, for organising such an incredible, inspiring, mind expanding weekend.

Thank you Cole and Nick, for demonstrating so elegantly why I should have been drilling my planes, and thank you Drew, for yelling at us for not having done so already. I'm off to learn poi again, from scratch, properly this time...

Thank you Birgit, and indeed Sunbird, for your gracious hospitaltity, and not showing the slightest bit of concern at the frightening mess of stuff that I spread all over your living room. I promise to visit again soon, and try to be tidier!



Gav

You cannot trust this boy! His mind has been corrupted by colours, sounds and shapes.

yay for nate getting his camera back, i'm glad to hear it nate, now you wont be in trouble with your mummy!

O.B.E.S.E. Official Potato man.

Remeber kids.... Its all fun and games until someone loses a bol**ck!

ok so now I realise that Mand was there and I never said hi to her, well, directly, and realising it was Mand in the first place.

Mand what do you look like so I can remember you? I don't remember any foreign sounding ladies at all!! I really must open my eyes sometimes

Let's relight this forum

Dunc, I was the one doing the double weaves with Simian.
I don't sound foreign, cos I'm from Durham (I just live in Houston).

Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.

Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.

Thanks everyone for making uberpoi so utterly amazing.

Had a great week.

Wicked to meet up with old friends and even nicer to meet so many new ones...

Some of the highlights for me:

Late night tequila workshop

Firepoise shaking her stuff

Ronin spinning gorgeous patterns

Even (sp?) with his badass diabolo style

Arashi's atomics, i finally get it

Dan for being so Dan

Battle was hilarious, i've got great footage of the whole lot

Coleman's battling style (esp. that face-off with bluecat)

Wibbling circle, or sphercle i guess. I'd been wanting to do that for years (spread the love guys and we'll have a huge wibbling sphercle some time)

The whole irish crew keeping me constantly amused

Paperspinning, thanks to alphalight and Andy House

Swing dance wibbling

........

The list goes on and on but i've had a really shittty day back at work so i'm off home.

Thanks Rob for having me stay and organising everything, so i hear uberpoi 2 is on Andrea's island

Gutted i missed andy's and nick's workshops, guess that means we'll just have to meet up again soon.

Big love to everyone,

matt

Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.

wicked, alpalight and Andy House are bringing paperspinning into the world, finally!



tina

- Ho Sa -
kisses & peace & love to beautiful madges
*rever le temps le prendre*

Written by: Mand






Dunc, I was the one doing the double weaves with Simian.

I don't sound foreign, cos I'm from Durham (I just live in Houston).







Tee hee hee, that's so funny Now I'm happy I know we spoke and I also have some really cool footage of you



Hope we get to spend more time together next time, two person poi is so the way forward, and it garantees a hug!

Let's relight this forum

Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.

wow, check out the dodgey photos of people! What on earth was I doing?!

Live like there is no tomorrow,
dance like nobody is watching
and hula hoop like wiggling will save the world.

�What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.�

Ralph Waldo Emerson

holla how to put a feeling in a sentence when it is growing every day ?

hm i feel inlighted and filled with positiv energies

the 4 days in the magic city of uberpoi was amazing full of all u need to live a life

hello to all of u and thank u all for making it real or sureal

a superultraspecialmerci de tous mon coeur to rob for finding the uberlight and for hosting myself in rooms full of light and cristals

hope those circles will come together again and again to make our dreams visions alive

peace and light

peace and light

Excellent photos Dom... and great to put some faces to names (NYC!) Love the one of Bam!!! The warehouse(?) looks like a great space...



Now here's the weirdest thing, but I woke up this morning and the word 'sperchulism' was rolling round in my head. I suppose it's the sort of word that rolls around wherever it is!

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Written by: Dunc

Tee hee hee, that's so funny Now I'm happy I know we spoke and I also have some really cool footage of you



Oooooh, I'd like to see that.

Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.

Written by: Dom

I've uploaded some photographs from the weekend.



The picture of Nick and Drew with their trousers down is priceless. Then again, maybe �20 is a good starting price.

Hugs to all the uber kids... except I don't really know all of your screennames. Who are you people?

Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]

Written by: Mand

Written by: Dunc

Tee hee hee, that's so funny Now I'm happy I know we spoke and I also have some really cool footage of you





Oooooh, I'd like to see that.



you will, don't worry about that! Gimme a week

Let's relight this forum

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....