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A couple of times now I have taken my practice poi along to some social gatherings so I can show my friends what it is all about. I noticed something strange (and quite amusing) though. Every time I get out my practice poi, inevitably (as the name of the thread suggests) someone who has probably never even heard of poi in their life will walk up to me and ask me if they can give it a try. I will then proceed to instruct them on how to do a basic weave, but then they ignore me flat, spin the poi as fast as humanly possible and wildly flail their arms around as if doing some strange tribal dance and proceed to whack themselves in sensitive places, causing great pain in the process. They will then give me back the poi, telling me loudly how they cant do this rubbish and walk off.

I told another friend who does poi about this and he says the same thing happens to him.

Does this happen to everyone else out there or is it just us?

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Thank God that there will always be some of those people around....there is nothing better after spinning for a while than to laugh at some fool, who knows better, smack himself in his sensitive places.

I say bring them on...we could all use a good chuckle

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