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Posted: 2nd Oct 2005
I think I've seen this in videos somewhere.

Have a browse through the video forum and the gallery. It may bring up something

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

Posted: 3rd Oct 2005
I think it would be quite difficult not choreographed.

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Posted: 3rd Oct 2005
suprisingly its not actually that hard if you're used to performing with someone but you have to maintain constant focus and trust the other person implicitly.

it also helps if you have a rough idea of what your going to do first,so rather than properly choreograph it perhaps work out a rough sequence of moves??

also make sure you never do any advancing move on the other person unless they can see it coming,as they could turn around at just the wrong moment.

a nice way to practise is to have friendly sparring first,ie;telling the person exactly what you plan to do just before you do it.

but yeah,lots of people have done it before so check out vids section!
xx

Posted: 3rd Oct 2005
If you just want a fight with fire, fireswords usually are very impressive for the audience...

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Posted: 3rd Oct 2005
*thinking of Lau gar kwan doy dar with fire staffs instead of normal ones...*

that's YOUR opinion...

from fire we´re born, to fire we return...

Posted: 4th Oct 2005
I'll post some vids as soon as we get them sorted and edited!



We've got some stuff going combining the rope dart, staff and sword.

Regards

Shu
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Posted: 4th Oct 2005
the choreographed fight routines that i've seen are some of the best firespinning routines i've seen full stop.

in my experience, improvised fights always look more fun for the performers than they do for the audience.


cole. x

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Posted: 4th Oct 2005
That's because it IS more fun for us Cole... come on!

For performance purposes, you aren't going to beat correographed stuff in terms of audience appeal, but it really doesn't take a whole lot to correograph a fight scene if you both have practice fighting each other. For instance, just going over some basic block / attack combos that you can pull off in a row would be sufficient I think. Then you would just have to be able to recognize the beginning of a combo and kick in the right correographed response sequence.

But just going at it is funner because its actually a game then. Who can hit who first (we may be a bit masochistic in our fire play here ).

Poi vs. staff and poi vs. poi can be fun (something I've been wanting to try is learning to block by air wrapping your opponent...) staff vs. staff, of course, rope dart vs. staff can be quite fun too.

And firewords have other uses (think fire baseball!). People won't spar with me anymore though with the fire swords... I tend to hit hands... which reminds me, practice not hitting each other in the hand.

Posted: 4th Oct 2005
Oh. And 'chucks hurt really bad...