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The Ministry of Manipulation
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
The Ministry of Manipulation
2,523 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Posted:
About 5 years ago, a poll on the front page of Hop asked:
Will you still be doing these arts in 5 years time?
Yes or no
Edit: temporarily removed this bit of text because it adds a huge bias to the poll
Edit: put it back in here:
Of course the majority of HOPers answered an enthusiastic “YES”. never imagining a time when they might not be obsessing about swinging poi.
I answered “No”. figuring, that I knew very few people who had been in this game for 5 years, and let alone the decade that another 5 years would have scored me.
I’m happy to report that, Once again, I was wrong.
/end edit
So My question for you is:
Will you still be doing these arts in 5 years time?
EDITED_BY: Glåss (1157623019)
About 5 years ago, a poll on the front page of Hop asked:
Will you still be doing these arts in 5 years time?
Yes or no
Edit: temporarily removed this bit of text because it adds a huge bias to the poll
Edit: put it back in here:
Of course the majority of HOPers answered an enthusiastic “YES”. never imagining a time when they might not be obsessing about swinging poi.
I answered “No”. figuring, that I knew very few people who had been in this game for 5 years, and let alone the decade that another 5 years would have scored me.
I’m happy to report that, Once again, I was wrong.
/end edit
So My question for you is:
Will you still be doing these arts in 5 years time?
EDITED_BY: Glåss (1157623019)
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Flying Water Muppet
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Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
Posted:
Another two years of staff for me, till I get okay at it. Then a few more for doubles triples and quadruples. So I answered yes.
Plus I've only just started contact juggling, and everyone knows it takes at least five years to get good at that.
It might not mean the same things it does to me now, but I think I'll still be doing it.
Myabe I'll even do some poi in that time.
Another two years of staff for me, till I get okay at it. Then a few more for doubles triples and quadruples. So I answered yes.
Plus I've only just started contact juggling, and everyone knows it takes at least five years to get good at that.
It might not mean the same things it does to me now, but I think I'll still be doing it.
Myabe I'll even do some poi in that time.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,638 posts
Location: Brum / Dorset / Fairy Land
3,638 posts
Location: Brum / Dorset / Fairy Land
Posted:
Yes. Cos I enjoy it. And I won't forget how to dance and spin even if I only do it at festivals, forget the intricate details of more difficult things, and am reduced to bouncing round in circles waving poi for the fun of it every once in a while.
Kinda like how I hoop really
Yes. Cos I enjoy it. And I won't forget how to dance and spin even if I only do it at festivals, forget the intricate details of more difficult things, and am reduced to bouncing round in circles waving poi for the fun of it every once in a while.
Kinda like how I hoop really
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Its Wet and Cold
120 posts
Location: Somewhere far,far away......, Scotland (UK)
Its Wet and Cold
120 posts
Location: Somewhere far,far away......, Scotland (UK)
Posted:
I said yes.
I first started when i was at school (i'm nearly 30) doing traditional maori dance and poi.
When at a festival in July i saw some strobe poi and by the monday i had purchased some.
I also have be juggling on and of for the past 12-15 years.
I said yes.
I first started when i was at school (i'm nearly 30) doing traditional maori dance and poi.
When at a festival in July i saw some strobe poi and by the monday i had purchased some.
I also have be juggling on and of for the past 12-15 years.
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Empirically random...
431 posts
Location: Lincoln, United Kingdom
Empirically random...
431 posts
Location: Lincoln, United Kingdom
Posted:
to be honest, i dont care.
At the moment im REALLY enjoying what im doing, and want to keep progressing, but if i move on to other things then so be it.
I havent been here very long but to me its the people that matter.
Ive already met some awesome friends, and If, in 5 years, i am still in contact with all the people i make friends with during MY time here, i shall be very very happy!
Anyway, those people would probably ensure i was still spinning!!
So i answered yes
to be honest, i dont care.
At the moment im REALLY enjoying what im doing, and want to keep progressing, but if i move on to other things then so be it.
I havent been here very long but to me its the people that matter.
Ive already met some awesome friends, and If, in 5 years, i am still in contact with all the people i make friends with during MY time here, i shall be very very happy!
Anyway, those people would probably ensure i was still spinning!!
So i answered yes
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HoP mage and keeper of the fireballs
1,965 posts
Location: Palmerston North, New Zealand
HoP mage and keeper of the fireballs
1,965 posts
Location: Palmerston North, New Zealand
Posted:
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
so many times over
I have no wish to ever stop
I want to be a very flexible pensioner
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
so many times over
I have no wish to ever stop
I want to be a very flexible pensioner
May my balls of fire set your balls on fire 
Stargazer
6,650 posts
6,650 posts
Posted:
I'd say yes, because even after all these years I feel that I just started...
Thanks to all of you, who took staff and poi to another new almost unimaginable level, opening the gate to multidimensional spinning.
Dunno but maybe someday we'll have a "Hall of fame" for spinning legends... Hope to find Arashi on the plate
I'd say yes, because even after all these years I feel that I just started...
Thanks to all of you, who took staff and poi to another new almost unimaginable level, opening the gate to multidimensional spinning.
Dunno but maybe someday we'll have a "Hall of fame" for spinning legends... Hope to find Arashi on the plate
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Pooh-Bah
1,872 posts
Location: Canada
Pooh-Bah
1,872 posts
Location: Canada
Posted:
I most sincerely hope so,,as spinning poi/ staff appears to have given me a case of OCD
I most sincerely hope so,,as spinning poi/ staff appears to have given me a case of OCD
old hand
898 posts
Location: Binstead, Isle of Wight
898 posts
Location: Binstead, Isle of Wight
Posted:
Yes, even if I have in between breaks of no spinning activity. I started 5 years ago, had a break for over a year and picked it (well them) up again and I'd love to teach it to my daughter!
Yes, even if I have in between breaks of no spinning activity. I started 5 years ago, had a break for over a year and picked it (well them) up again and I'd love to teach it to my daughter!
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Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
Posted:
I answered yes, because after 3 years of spinning poi I feel like I'm just touching the tip of the iceburg of what I am capable of.
I'm also just getting into different 'aspects' of spinning, such as dance styles and choreography. I've also recently taken up club juggling, contact juggling, staff, and now stilt walking- all of which have links somewhere to poi spinning.
There's too much to explore to even think of giving it up in the next 5 years.
I answered yes, because after 3 years of spinning poi I feel like I'm just touching the tip of the iceburg of what I am capable of.
I'm also just getting into different 'aspects' of spinning, such as dance styles and choreography. I've also recently taken up club juggling, contact juggling, staff, and now stilt walking- all of which have links somewhere to poi spinning.
There's too much to explore to even think of giving it up in the next 5 years.
Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.
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Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Posted:
yup. I figure if I'm still spinning now after more than 6 years, that I ought to at least spin every now and then in another 6. I certainly don't spin as often as I did 3-4 years ago, but when I find some good music, that's exactly what my body wants to do.
yup. I figure if I'm still spinning now after more than 6 years, that I ought to at least spin every now and then in another 6. I certainly don't spin as often as I did 3-4 years ago, but when I find some good music, that's exactly what my body wants to do.
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Posted:
You can bet your money that I'll still be juggling in 5 years time. Hell, in fifty years if my body is still upright by then. After nine years my aims are the same....Goal#1: Reach my skill limit. Goal#2: surpass those limits. You get the idea.
You can bet your money that I'll still be juggling in 5 years time. Hell, in fifty years if my body is still upright by then. After nine years my aims are the same....Goal#1: Reach my skill limit. Goal#2: surpass those limits. You get the idea.
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Location: Paris, United Kingdom
enthusiast
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Location: Paris, United Kingdom
Posted:
After 3 years of having engaged in these arts object manipulation has become something of an aid to meditation or focusing my attention. In fact I was spinning poi to help me think about this reply
I love the skills I have learnt and am still learning and I love the community that has opened itself up to me as a result.
So I would have to say I certainly hope so.
G.
After 3 years of having engaged in these arts object manipulation has become something of an aid to meditation or focusing my attention. In fact I was spinning poi to help me think about this reply
I love the skills I have learnt and am still learning and I love the community that has opened itself up to me as a result.
So I would have to say I certainly hope so.
G.
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Lambretta Fanatic
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Location: United Kingdom
Lambretta Fanatic
4,998 posts
Location: United Kingdom
Posted:
ive been around for the last 5 years.. but so sadly miss so many hoppers that failed to stay... or stay in touch.
ive been around for the last 5 years.. but so sadly miss so many hoppers that failed to stay... or stay in touch.
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Intrepid Penguin
5,635 posts
Location: Australia
Intrepid Penguin
5,635 posts
Location: Australia
Posted:
Edit: I was gonna say I was coming up on my fifth year, but then I realised I started spinning in february of 2001, so that makes me a veteran now...
another yes from me!
Edit: I was gonna say I was coming up on my fifth year, but then I realised I started spinning in february of 2001, so that makes me a veteran now...
another yes from me!
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NYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
Posted:
Like you?
I don't think I'll be doing exactly what I'm doing in 5 years but I do think Molly and I will be doing something similar. If it's costuming or pupetting or some other artistic expression of silliness. I doubt I'll forget how to do the weave so I'm sure I'll light up when I'm around others. I certainly will NEVER be at the peak I was at years ago. I've been simmering with 3-4 burn nights a year lately and I assume I'll continue to simmer as long as I make it to festivals.
I know I'll still be having fun. I know I'll still be doing arts. I just don't know which ones.
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ive been around for the last 5 years.. but so sadly miss so many hoppers that failed to stay... or stay in touch.
Like you?
I don't think I'll be doing exactly what I'm doing in 5 years but I do think Molly and I will be doing something similar. If it's costuming or pupetting or some other artistic expression of silliness. I doubt I'll forget how to do the weave so I'm sure I'll light up when I'm around others. I certainly will NEVER be at the peak I was at years ago. I've been simmering with 3-4 burn nights a year lately and I assume I'll continue to simmer as long as I make it to festivals.
I know I'll still be having fun. I know I'll still be doing arts. I just don't know which ones.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,750 posts
Location: Europe,Scotland,Both
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,750 posts
Location: Europe,Scotland,Both
Posted:
passed my 5 year annivesary, and still spinning.
thease days I play what I feel like, and save my 'hungry ghoast' fur club juggling, wich i find more satisfying basically because its much harder.
having said that I still learn about 5/10 new poi tricks a year, and some staff ones too, and I recon I will always pick to poi when I just want to dance and jump and have fun, and pick up someting else when I want to satisfy my urge for self-improvement.
plus im into a world of poi at the moment thats very slow to digest, it takes me a few months to work out where the next move is coming from, its more of a slow meditation on form, rather than the early burst of taking every trick you find.
one day ill get weighted handles and I recon that will make me practice more...
T
passed my 5 year annivesary, and still spinning.
thease days I play what I feel like, and save my 'hungry ghoast' fur club juggling, wich i find more satisfying basically because its much harder.
having said that I still learn about 5/10 new poi tricks a year, and some staff ones too, and I recon I will always pick to poi when I just want to dance and jump and have fun, and pick up someting else when I want to satisfy my urge for self-improvement.
plus im into a world of poi at the moment thats very slow to digest, it takes me a few months to work out where the next move is coming from, its more of a slow meditation on form, rather than the early burst of taking every trick you find.
one day ill get weighted handles and I recon that will make me practice more...
T
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Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
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Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posted:
yeah, i reckon so.
2yrs of juggling now and 2 - 6 months of most other things. i like to things well(ish) and i see that taking several years. anyway, what are all these university/career excuses/possible reasons for stopping about. i say SLACKERS, really now, whats more important...?
yeah, i reckon so.
2yrs of juggling now and 2 - 6 months of most other things. i like to things well(ish) and i see that taking several years. anyway, what are all these university/career excuses/possible reasons for stopping about. i say SLACKERS, really now, whats more important...?
eat my face before i eat yours
253 posts
Location: Torquay, UK
253 posts
Location: Torquay, UK
Posted:
i read this thread last night and thought about it for a long time. i then thought that maybe in a couple of years i might go to circumedia school. So with that in mind i would say yes, i will be spinning hopefully.
i read this thread last night and thought about it for a long time. i then thought that maybe in a couple of years i might go to circumedia school. So with that in mind i would say yes, i will be spinning hopefully.
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Posted:
definately! i think ill be teaching it in schools in 5 years time. after travelling id like to set up my own juggling/circus school. i just hate running out of tricks. when that happens i just adopt a new toy
diabolo is one that i havent ran out of tricks yet, working on 3 diabs atm
definately! i think ill be teaching it in schools in 5 years time. after travelling id like to set up my own juggling/circus school. i just hate running out of tricks. when that happens i just adopt a new toy
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