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Posted: 15th May 2011
did the ropes have bowls on both ends because if so these sounds like meteors. if they only had a bowl on one end they sound like a rope dart.

Posted: 20th May 2011
Almost certainly meteors. The move you describe isn't really one you can do with rope dart, and I've never heard of bowls being used with rope dart.

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2011
Yup, sounds like a meteor hammer, and using bowls on the end is a traditional training/performance modification. Wikipedia has some good info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_hammer#Fire_meteor_and_other_variations

Here's what a kick looks like with a rope dart:



If it was actually a meteor hammer then I imagine you could release and kick the whole thing into the air, a variation on how sometimes people will just throw it the entire toy into the air (which always reminds me of somebody throwing pizza dough).

Posted: 11th Aug 2011
Yea those are meteors you can see that exact move in Cirque's Vareki here

Posted: 11th Jun 2012
uii ,really interesting ..