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Dear lord...whilst browsing through my housemates trendy fashion mags, I found poi in the 'whats hot' section of Marie Claire!
Watch out for business women spinning near you soon!
Seriously, is this the end of poi as a community of like minded individuals via the death knell of corporate branding? Or is it a possible new influx of lovely spinners?
opinions?
-spinnin' to the rhythm of the new world order-
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Yes Cole maybe I was being a little bit simplistic.
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big and good and broken
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skully cole. x
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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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grumpy poorly froggy
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i personaly have no problem with it, more people should spin IMO its so much fun... hehehe i infected lots of people in my town and its wicked seeing them all in the park etc having fun. i would prefer to see this than the usual drinking etc. Heck they even stop drinking as much as it means they can not Poi without hitting either themselves or others.
kids drinking or kids poi-ing... yeah poi wins every time.They make me so proud.
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Location: Nr Petersfield, United Kingdom
I've been sparking poi off in all directions to various family members and friends of mine, and its great to see them getting a kick out of it. While there might be more people thinking about doing fire long before they are ready, there will also then be a heightened awareness about the dangers. Any horror stories will go very public if it is a big thing, and fire accidents will probably remain at a constant proportion of spinners.
I for one spend much less time (ironically, considering my current positon) on the computer and/or bumming around since I took up poi and staff properly - I notice the difference in my badminton play as well. I spend less time sitting about, and its good. If that gets transferred to others - brilliant!
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Location: USA
I'd be all for it. Remember when Yo-Yo's became the cool thing to do over here in the states? Everywhere you went you could start playing around with people and have fun. There more of an emphasis on yo-yoing. I even saw an article or two in sports illustrated about big comps. Companies sales were going up, and so they started comming out with better more revolutionary designs. I dont think poi will become mainstream, but I dont see it as being a much of a bad thing if it does.
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Momma Bear
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Location: Telford, Shrops, United Kingdom
it'd be better than no-one knowing what poi is!!
Stranger: "what's poi?"
Me: "well, it's like swinging balls around on string"
Stranger: "oh,,,sounds...great"
Poi is fun yay! and it might keep some of these youngsters off the streets and into the fields to play
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Location: Farnborough, Hampshire
Poi was being done at Soul Survivor as well (don't ask what it is)-it's everywhere! Yay
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wandering thru the woods of WI
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*bump*
has any one seen an influx in poi-ers?
Faith
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the henna lady
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Location: WNY, USA
I'd say it just to get spanked by Durbs.
Thing is, it's been in alot of magazines and tv shows through the years and this debate comes up each time. Lots of threads about it.
Just like Cardio strip and all that was hot. Whatever.
In the next month edition it's something else and this is forgotten...leaving it for all of us to whap ourselves gleefully with!
Nope, no influx.
Just the same old tree huggers as always.
Pele
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Poi at Soul Survivor?
I think Froggy may be partly responsible for that too
It'd be interesting to see the site's server logs, to see how the number of people signing up changes.
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when will yoyo be cool again?
damn I don't do poi that must mean I'm not trendy.. Damnit and I try soooo hard.
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
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Location: Farnborough, Hampshire
Yoyo got banned in the U.K
Too many kids were strangling themselves (probably 1 knowing the health and safety these days)Thanks polar, did you mean froggy or goth frogette or someone else completely?
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poi will get banned coz of that
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Macaque of all trades
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Poi will get banned because it's lame
no other reason other than groin pain (I just can't get passed that ) .... yoyo's strangle people... now why havn't I tried THAT one yet must be in the advanced moves section of splitting the atom... A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
big and good and broken
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Yoyo got banned in the U.K
where and when did that happen?!
there was a yoyo competition in gloucester earlier this year:
i wonder if the police know about this illegal hotbed of dastardly crime...
cole. x
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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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and they will all have glow poi (fire being far too dirty of course)
woo, bring it, they'd all be buying Hyperlights, that way I can see at least one of my friends happy and wealthy doing something they love
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Yoyo got banned in the U.K
where and when did that happen?!
there was a yoyo competition in gloucester earlier this year:
i wonder if the police know about this illegal hotbed of dastardly crime...
cole. x
It happened recently, i got told by a relation, so i'm not totally sure it's tue
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big and good and broken
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i think they must have been referring to this story:
https://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=consumer&id=4781053
its not even a yoyo - its a dodgy rubbery toy thing.
watch the video and you'll see how it could easily end up wrapped around a kid's neck while stretched which would then choke them as it tightens up...
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
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No- i know about that-that was a while a go, but they definantly said yoyo
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big and good and broken
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(that story is from last week)
but if they definitely said yoyo and this country, they're making it up i reckon
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
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Location: Farnborough, Hampshire
I'm very confused now *implodes in confusion*
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Sorry to transition back on topic but I missed this thread the first time through.
Poi wasn't cooler in 2003. Nor was it cooler in 2001 when I wrote [Old link]
It wasn't cooler when you started. It wasn't cooler when I started. It won't be cooler when some newbie starts it tomorrow.
It's not going to be more or less cool when they start giving them out at starbucks.
It's going to stay exactly as cool as it always was.
It was you that was less cool back then. Your less coolness made the poi seem cooler by comparison. Now that you've gotten cooler the poi seem less cool when they haven't changed at all.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
wandering thru the woods of WI
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what if you weren't cool to start?
Faith
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Hang on, i'm *still* not cool!
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...and I'm pretty damn sure that I've gotten a little less cool over the years...
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Macaque of all trades
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true
i however get cooler evey passing minute the only time I'm NOT cool is when I'm flailing my arms around with a pair of poi....
I have to say it's not the poi that's cool, it's the person doing cool stuff with the poi... I couldn't make poi cool if I spun in a freezer
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
hehe, 'Member' huhuh
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That's your new years resolution for the year Mynci sorted...
Now to get a freezer big enough for you...
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Macaque of all trades
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no problem I work with 40 ft long 9'6" high reefer containers... and NOT the good kind
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
1,590 posts
Location: Farnborough, Hampshire
Written by: NYC
Sorry to transition back on topic but I missed this thread the first time through.
Poi wasn't cooler in 2003. Nor was it cooler in 2001 when I wrote [Old link]
It wasn't cooler when you started. It wasn't cooler when I started. It won't be cooler when some newbie starts it tomorrow.
It's not going to be more or less cool when they start giving them out at starbucks.
It's going to stay exactly as cool as it always was.
It was you that was less cool back then. Your less coolness made the poi seem cooler by comparison. Now that you've gotten cooler the poi seem less cool when they haven't changed at all.
But poi is cool in my school... ever since I started doing it there, everybody wanted a go, people are even asking where to get them from
But I don't want too many poiers-I want it to stay an unusual sport, so I'm not telling people
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Nah afraid not.
Poi is only cool when done in graffiti sprayed urban wastelands, beaches, poi festivals (aka Cool Festivals) and on top of mountains.
Few things are cool when done in school, except possibly trigonomatry
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