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Excuse me if the thread exists, but my search didnt bring up such a topic.



Being apart of HoP, its pretty much a golden rule, all men and women... must.. love... balls... What kind do you like? what color is your favorite? Examples:



Aerotech poi? what color fades?



Flowtoy? which style - oggpoi? flowpoi? flowpoi duo? what colors?



HoP poi? (not sure if they specify as an aerotech) White? Red? Blue? Green? Hippie dippie rainbow?



Ultra poi? What color fabric?



What kind of fire poi? Monkey fist? Mura? Cathedral?



and then theres the classic one, Balls to head. The goal of those is to cause and emit as much pain as possible to your head. Resulting in a major headache, or a big lump if youre lucky and the possibility of brain damage/memory loss



What balls do YOU like?

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i have lots of balls.

i guess you could say i'm i'm kind of a collector now.

blame drew.

this post could go on all day if i started talking about balls so to avoid that, i'll just go for describing my most anal use of said ball collection: my preferred poi golf set up

club: black underfilled fluozie 3" beanbag @ 180g
ball: white dube 3" stageball @ 130g


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Coleman, I know what you mean. The proliferation of balls in my living room has been quite scary. They've been like tribbles!

For poi, my favorites are these 2.5" diameter rubber balls they sell at my neighborhood hardware store. They're meant to be bouncy balls but they're great in socks.

I also like oggz in white socks. Really lovely.

I don't really spin fire much anymore, but for fire I prefer monkey fists.

My favorite single ball is a hot pink 4" babache stage ball.

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i'm with muskelunge here tennis balls and socks are the most versatile poi. the balls hurt but it's worth it, the weight iis perfect... methinks juggling balls (135g) are a tad too heavy for comfort.

(that and they're cheap!)

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I don't know. Now that I think about it, sock poi by their nature seem to go so much slower than other poi. They're ideal for learning things, but for working up and mastering moves? I'm not so sure.



why not? my sock poi are totally my favorite now.

it really depends what you spin. if you spin fire, then sure, you need to practice with your fire poi as every set of poi has it's own feel.

i use rice in a cellophane wrap as 'balls'. i find them extremely forgiving and you can weigh them just the way you want!

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