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Location: Australia
Posted:
My third night of fire spinning, after 3-4 weeks of poi playing.
feel free to critic, i'll be glad to hear what you have to say!
P.S: fire poi and staff ( i tried for the first time staff this night - tonight-) just seems to me that it's where i belong, where i can be, finally!
My third night of fire spinning, after 3-4 weeks of poi playing.
feel free to critic, i'll be glad to hear what you have to say!
P.S: fire poi and staff ( i tried for the first time staff this night - tonight-) just seems to me that it's where i belong, where i can be, finally!
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Elusive and Bearded
3,597 posts
Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Posted:
Don;t say it like that, Staff has been scientifically proven to be better then poi.
jus' sayin'
Don;t say it like that, Staff has been scientifically proven to be better then poi.
jus' sayin' O.B.E.S.E.
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Location: Australia
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Location: Australia
Posted:
not saying poi's better, just saying that i feel better with poi, i actually like staff, just personally, feel better eith poi, know what i mean?
not saying poi's better, just saying that i feel better with poi, i actually like staff, just personally, feel better eith poi, know what i mean?
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Location: Everywhere, USA
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Location: Everywhere, USA
Posted:
Sounds like quackery to me!
Poi and staff are both just line segments that we use to create a window for the audience into the hidden world of geometric proportion in space and time. Ridged or slack both have their pros and cons. Any object manipulation is ultimately derived from the same source, just applied to different shapes.
-Alien Jon
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... Staff has been scientifically proven to be better then poi...
Sounds like quackery to me!
Poi and staff are both just line segments that we use to create a window for the audience into the hidden world of geometric proportion in space and time. Ridged or slack both have their pros and cons. Any object manipulation is ultimately derived from the same source, just applied to different shapes.
-Alien Jon
+Alien Jon
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4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
Posted:
What we need is a way to take a staff apart and make it floppy during a performance.
You would then have one toy that is a staff, clubs and poi at once.
What we need is a way to take a staff apart and make it floppy during a performance.
You would then have one toy that is a staff, clubs and poi at once.
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posted:
I've been thinking about that, poi that could somehow become solid at will, so they could be used as clubs also. I haven't been able to think of a practical mechanical device to allow such a thing, the closest I've been able to get is a hollowed tethered poi, like an empty sock or tube, the opening of which is opened around a rigid stick, that is mechanically held onto the inside of the forearm. When the user wants the poi to become clubs, the user presses a switch that is near the base of the fingers, that causes the mechanism to release its hold on the stick, and then either centrifugal force of spinning (if you were doing long-arm), gravity or perhaps even a spring loaded release would cause the stick to enter into the poi, after which you grab the ends, holding it in, whereby it becomes a club! Yay!
The other idea is to implement still developing artificial muscle technology into poi. If you had a poi where the tether was artificial muscle (or even real muscle, except it wouldn't last long), and an electrical charge was applied to it, probably through wires leading from a battery pack on the user's body (maybe on a backpack) to cause the "muscle" to tighten and become rigid. It would be easy enough to give the user control over this, but this kinda thing is obviously a way off yet...
I've been thinking about that, poi that could somehow become solid at will, so they could be used as clubs also. I haven't been able to think of a practical mechanical device to allow such a thing, the closest I've been able to get is a hollowed tethered poi, like an empty sock or tube, the opening of which is opened around a rigid stick, that is mechanically held onto the inside of the forearm. When the user wants the poi to become clubs, the user presses a switch that is near the base of the fingers, that causes the mechanism to release its hold on the stick, and then either centrifugal force of spinning (if you were doing long-arm), gravity or perhaps even a spring loaded release would cause the stick to enter into the poi, after which you grab the ends, holding it in, whereby it becomes a club! Yay!
The other idea is to implement still developing artificial muscle technology into poi. If you had a poi where the tether was artificial muscle (or even real muscle, except it wouldn't last long), and an electrical charge was applied to it, probably through wires leading from a battery pack on the user's body (maybe on a backpack) to cause the "muscle" to tighten and become rigid. It would be easy enough to give the user control over this, but this kinda thing is obviously a way off yet...
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