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Location: London/Bristol, United Kingdom
ok going to post this in the right section now
think this is going to be a half rant half disscusion type of post
rant part:
many staffer today only seem interested in learning contact and not how to spin. This might sound stange coming for me as i generally spends most of my time with a staff rolling over one part of my body or another but I it is important to know how to spin properly a fluidly.
When you spin fire in front of people that don't know much about staff if you go straight into contact they won't have a clue how hard it is and cos it's so hard to keep in plane it just looks wobbly and generally pants. Also you have to hold the staff at some point (well maybe) and if you can't spin fluidly when you do it just makes you look like a really bad spinner.
the other thing is that spinning a staff fast is an art, it's not easy to do well, it look grate when it is done well and if you don't pratice it you'll never be able to do it.
The times I've got best responce from a crowd the burn normally goes abit like: big burn off, 1 min of just nice spinning, next min start teasing them with afew contact move, next 30sec or so do some big fat contact combs then end it with some nice fast spining and afew throws.
right thats the rant over with the disscusion part is carrying on in the same vane. what spinning moves do you like?
i'll start you off with afew
2 beat stuff: thumb end stays in front of you little fingure end behind you, this stuff is grate for looking silly (alway a good thing) eshally by doing lots of turns by shuffulling you feet round in as many tiny step as you can get away with. also twisting your self up with extra spins then staying twisted by going into 2beat spinning
carrying an extra spin over your head: bit of a hard one to explain, basicly from backward figure of 8 when the staff is behind you bring your arm over your head (so your head goes into the space between your arm and the staff) this will give you an extra beat behind you. this looks really nice when done smoothly.
ok am going to shut up now hope this has made sense.
thought and comment welcome.
Maybe I should change this too something abit nicer, humm no I still think your all C
t
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Written by: strugz
Then try contact with nice planes FRD
Thats what I worked on this weekend. Two almost full days of nonstop spinning and I still cant get any of it looking perfect!
Bah! Total lameness!
But I've almost cracked steves (elusive B@astard that it is)... and came oh so close to the matrix. And a loverly miss Lemming showed me hoe conveyore belts work
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."
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Location: Adelaide, SA
i reckon the best twirler is the person whose contact and twirls are more or less the same.I love seeing it when a twirlers twirls get closer and closer to their body and then without noticing it you realise that their hands arent guiding the staff anymore. spinning but still keeping contact with the body is a beautiful way to twirl. And real satisfying to do, it makes you move your body and forces you to twirl, not just the staff.
Me
607 posts
Location: London/Bristol, United Kingdom
Written by: Fine_Rabid_Dog
Contact, in my eye, is becoming more and more overrated. I'm becoming less impressed by it
don't know I'd go as far as this. I still think contact stuff is some of the most impressive stuff that can be done with a staff but it's not the be all and end all of staff and looks best when combied with grate all round spinning.
Written by: mcp
I don't think people should fight over this
I do
It'd make cheaking hop far more interesting Maybe I should change this too something abit nicer, humm no I still think your all Ct
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
Aye, but I prefer to leave the arguments to the poi spinners. It's much more funny that way, cos I have no particular side I want to be on...
Right then,
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
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Location: everywhere
*ponders whether to enter debate....*
should i? should i not?
hmm,mmmmmmm.
meg? make up my mind for me, please.
ta.
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
Only if you're on my side!
Or bored...
Or you want to use your leet capoeira skills to beat us both up....
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Me
607 posts
Location: London/Bristol, United Kingdom
Written by: mcp
Right then,bring it on T&B!
why would I want to fight with you, you're only a girl, I was hoping for a proper fight not a one sided, no effort, walk over
Maybe I should change this too something abit nicer, humm no I still think your all Ct
5,300 posts
Location: everywhere
indeed. good that you've spotted you've no chance tim, so why bother?
R
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
old hand
834 posts
Location: Wellington somerset, UK
is all my contribution to this thread
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
4,308 posts
Location: York, England
there's something wrong with 1337 spelled leet..... its like... i mean, i hate 1337... but....
its still wrong!!!!
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
181 posts
Location: Derbyshire
if its spelt right it should be 31373, Elite, or thats the nearest u can get. But doesnt all that talk annoy you. Pwn, Own, Noob, Haxor etc etc.
Yo-yoist, Staffer and 3 Ball and Club Juggling
'Its people like us, who make them feel talentless.'
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
If it was leet, it would be written in binary. As it is, it's just l33t.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Me
607 posts
Location: London/Bristol, United Kingdom
WTF
and I thought I as abit random????
p.s. Meg and Rob stop ganging up on me or I'll get my mum on you
Maybe I should change this too something abit nicer, humm no I still think your all Ct
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
oooooooo, poor little timmy doesn't have an older brother! You could get Psi to try and beat us up, he almost has enough hair to match the two of us. (You however, as a pushover on the hair front.)
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
old hand
716 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
if we're taking sides im gonna create my own side and woop you all.... bring it ooon!
on the spinny contacty thingy i am particularly loving a new move ive robbed off rob (pardon the pun).
its that cool spin into a matrix from shoulder to oposite arm and then catch it between your legs (uberstaff 05 vid), lots of potential for weird spinning entry and twisty spinny exits. Also found if you turn a bit more and dont catch between the legs you can make it spin down your leg and catch it with your foot.
i think the main problem with most contact is its done around the shoulders and arms and if you are doing a mostly contact set it can become a little boring keeping the staff in one area of the body. getting it to travel the whole length of the body breaks up a set more and confuses people as to what the hell you just did. This is definittly something im gonna be playing with more from now on.
i know im preaching to the converted to tim and rob but meg when was the last time you used any of the lower part of your body? Hmmmm?
"Don't do it naked!"
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
Written by: -sandy-
i know im preaching to the converted to tim and rob but meg when was the last time you used any of the lower part of your body? Hmmmm?
is it just me thats reading that out of context
Great choice of words sandy
So......meg?
Id agree with the whole contact thing being dominated by the upper part of your body - however ive come to get around that by sitting down doing contact and generally squatting alot......... it kinda helps......... going up and down all the time really messes with your contact and can get the staff rolling in all sorts of unwanted and unexpected places
Which is usually how the most unlikley / unthought about moves are created IMO
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
Me
607 posts
Location: London/Bristol, United Kingdom
oi you two get your dirty contact talk out of my thread
Maybe I should change this too something abit nicer, humm no I still think your all Ct
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
oh yeh sorry..........
**spinny spinny spinny spin spin spin**
like a girly ballerina
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
legs don't have hands so everything you do with them is contact! Yay!
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
58 posts
Location: Bristol
i hate my legs
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
so do i
but in the words of bender: "I like yoo!"
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
5,300 posts
Location: everywhere
meg. get off my computer and lets do some filmage.
(glesgae stylee...) Holistic Spinner (I hope)
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Yay!
Woot!
For filmage
*looks out at dampness*
Bugger
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
4,308 posts
Location: York, England
Rob's hair is just hair, tho.....
and meg's hair is LEGENDARY.
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
Alright Vodka! Fuzz yer arse fer lovebites yer bampot.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Alcofrolics
Getting to the other side 
4,308 posts
Location: York, England
go firepoise!
and I agree about the vodka... but er... is the rest of that in english??!!!
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
Its english english.
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."
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
roughly translated doric, innit?
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
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