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It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.
What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
ha ha ha, you crack me up
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May your balls always burn
DeleteSILVER Member since Jul 2001
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My watch must've stopped. It seems to say Half past small selection of cookies and a nice cup of coffee....
"I'll carry this....It's harder to spill a hat" - Chellybean
"...like a rabbit caught in a lighthouse?" - Chellybean
Haven't done it with fire yet, but I often just spin/practice with my eyes closed or even blindfolded. I use them to spin, just not so much as others. Still when it comes to fire, need to be able to find that damn lit stick if I drop it, and grab it in the right place to boot ^___^
No one knows me like I do.
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
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"I'll carry this....It's harder to spill a hat" - Chellybean
"...like a rabbit caught in a lighthouse?" - Chellybean
[QB] Is it really Beer o'clock?
/QB]It's allways Beer'O'Clock........
Allways...............
I like Fire.. :)
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I spin better with my eyes are closed...
-LuNcHbOx, Aka. Nathan...Give a man to fish, and that man knows where to come for more fish...Teach a man to fish and you have just destroyed your market base...
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There are no obstacles only challenges.
Very funny scotty now beam down my pants.
[colour."green"}What would willie do?
AHH theres too many wee leprechauns i cannae squash them all
lets all close are eyes and shut of that voice for good
One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead men got up to fight,
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew there swords and Shot each other.
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
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Here are some fun facts:
There are four basic types of eye movements:
1) Vestibulo-ocular: This is what keeps your eyes pointing the same direction when your head moves. Try looking at a spot across the room and shaking your head back and forth slowly. Now speed up and see how vigorously you have to shake your head before the image starts to jerk around. This is an especially useful reflex to have when you are driving or otherwise moving around.
2) Saccadic: This is how your eyes move when you are looking at one target and then want to shift your attention to another target. Your eyes jump to the new target. Also, as a function of the vestibulo-ocular reflex, as you turn your head, your eyes fixate on a single point. Once your head has turned past the point where your eyes can fixate, your eyes will jump back to center and you will fixate on another point and repeat the process.
3) Accommodation: Try this one on a friend. Have your friend follow your finger with his or her eyes while holding his or her head still. Then put your finger right in front of their face and move it inwards (towards their nose). The eyes will converge (point towards each-other) and the pupils will constrict. Accommodation is used to switch between targets at different distances.
4) Pursuit: Pursuit is when you follow a moving target with your eyes. In this type of movement, the eyes move smoothly and consensually (together). Most people find it difficult, if not impossible, to use pursuit movements without a target to follow.
-Mike )'(
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
"A buckuht 'n a hooze!" -Valura
I have found it is interesting to spoin with eyes shut. You have to feel the poi! It isn't to hard once poi is already a reflex.
we eat and we drink and we smoke and we try!
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Lightning - you've got to learn to leave your lecture notes at home and focus on your beer more - hate to see you go all
Have a swift half on me
Fish are just like trees except they move and they're invisible
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-Such a price the gods exact for song: to become what we sing
-Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
-When the center of the storm does not move, you are in its path.
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"I'll carry this....It's harder to spill a hat" - Chellybean
"...like a rabbit caught in a lighthouse?" - Chellybean
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-LuNcHbOx, Aka. Nathan...Give a man to fish, and that man knows where to come for more fish...Teach a man to fish and you have just destroyed your market base...
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I think a good poll would be "do you let your mouth drop open when you spin."
What hits the fan is not evenly distributed.
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Location: Connecticut, USA
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I think you need eyes if you are going to critique your own twirling.
I reckon its pretty hard to get locked on technique without ever seeing your own twirling...
Josh
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