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"While searching for more baton vhs vids (of competitions this time), I actually stumbled on a couple of online vids. Not that great quality and a bit too many tutus and cartwheels for m..."
Posted: by ShawnF
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"Has anyone seen any of these videos (or the couple of dvds)?http://dancecheer.net/videos/flagtwirlingvideos.htmlBasically geared toward batons, but also stuff for flags (flags with hand..."
Posted: by Phuhzzzie Wuhzzzie the Pumpkin King
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"Bend over backwads and corkscrew behind your back and above your head. Be ever so careful not to burn your hair or smack your back with the staff, and there you have it. Joy!"
"The other day I was thinking about devil sticks a little and came up with 'giant' devil sticks using doubles for the handsticks and a larger staff for the devil stick. Then this got me..."
"PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help mewhen im pssing the staff between my legs...i always end up having to lift my leg and i look spastic....not that theres anything wrong with our mentally defit..."
"i'm in search for sum hints or tips on how to throw my staff so that it turns around in the air. i can only make it do a 180 and if it does do a 360 it seems to travel... is that normal..."
"are there Any Victorian Staff or Ploi enthusiasts around here?Im relatively new to these arts and as only 2 of my friends also firetwirl we are all at the same levelWhile what we can do..."
"alright everyone.....heres a little diddy. just a little something to do when the staff falls on the ground. im not sure if its been posted yet, maybe eveyone does this already and it d..."
"Hello everyone! I was wondering if someone could help me with what I thought was an easy problem to fix... I've gotten my throws down pretty good without fire, but I've found that I ..."
"Just started staff and tis getting exciting now. Simple question...In Xaeda's lessons, I think it's the first one. when twirling in front of you doing them 360 degree turns in each h..."
"Hi peeps,Discovered a new one, or at least I hav'nt seen it preformed. Holding a staff and poi in one hand, you can get them going so the poi dos'nt get hopelessy intangled with the sta..."
"over here -> spores is a video i done wiv my mates.look for 'messy' it has loads of staff stuff on t and some other nceties also.... and wait! more on the way when dustpunks hit tow..."
"hey peoples, hope everyone's well. just a question. the other week i saw this guy twirling 2 fire stix in each hand an man it looked really cool!jus wonderin if anybody knows of any goo..."
"Hello staff people, I was goofing around and came up with some variations on that old standby, the neckspin. They have been posted on my website, but I thought I would post them here a..."
"Okay, this trick is going to be impossible to describe, but I'll give it a go. basically you start with a neck catch, then let it slip so that your head's bent over sideways and the s..."
"Ok... i searched thru all the old topics... and i have watched the videos over and over- but the vids dont help and cant find anything in the topics!!!how does the fingering go fer sing..."
"Ok, i dunno what the chances are of me attracting someone who can help are, but Nix? and Mineiro must be out there somewhere too....It's the one where you spin it down ur arm, then arou..."
Posted: by Phuhzzzie Wuhzzzie the Pumpkin King
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"I was spinning sombody elses staff the other day, because I don't have my own and Santa still hasn't got me one. Are you listening Santa? Yes you the fat bloke in the lobster suit! Was ..."
"mmmmmmm just made myself a 3.5m staff with 1m wick either end.....originally for stilts but too beautiful to just be left to that......hehehevideo by chrimbo methinks(before if pk gets ..."
"To all staffers:I am in Edmonton until Sunday, if you want to get together for a spin, plz reply.I will be in Red Deer next week from the 12th -17th.I will be in Calgary the week from t..."
"ok peoplehow bad have we all been injured twirling and howive had like minor burns but... nuthin seriousive seen dislocated thumbs and fingers, hari on fire from people who cant finger ..."
"I've been interested in staff tosses since I started, I know of only basics though. How many different tosses are there?"
"hefty noo contact stuff.....this is based on the move shown in glass video with the subtitle something like 'the steve move'...? the one where the staff starts flatspinning in one hand..."
"This week I have been mostly landing Glass's hand to foot flatspin contact. whoo hoo.for me the key was to turn a little with the staff when its exactly on the middle of your back, this..."
"Not very complicated, or anything, but I like it.Start a forward figure 8 type thing in the wall plane. When the staff comes in front of you, stick your leg out straight as if you were ..."
"First off I got my art of staff video this morning, I thought it'd be a wise move after getting my staff about a month ago and progressed thus far to the point where I pick it up from t..."
"hi dudesi am max , a 15 ( get 16 on friday the 22.11 ) years old ( young ) guy . i began some days ago to swing with a staff . before that i did many things with staffs ( not swing..."
"yo,Thought id start this tread for simple manipulation tricks that havent been thought of yet, Im shure there must be loads out there and Im going to start it off with this incredibly s..."
"I just bought a 1.244M (4 foot 1 inch) piece of stainless steel tubeing. It's diameter is 2.54CM (1 inch) the thickness of the metal is 1.7 CM (0.7 inches)thick and weighs ~1.1KG (~2 ..."
"I find when I'm teaching somebody a move it's a hell of a lot easier for them if they hold the staff while I physically move the staff for them in the move the staff in the move I'm try..."
"to aiden glass liam for awwesome staffage this weekend and many others for poi (inc. dom pk glass(again....hmmmm)liam aiden(this list is getting familiar.....) jo cass lolli et al in sh..."
"Hi, I new to both poi and staff. I tried both out and am taking a liking more towards staff. I was just wondering how often you practiced when you were starting out? Once you got the ..."
"ok well i was watching this guy twirling the other day and he was doing this thing where he kept it twirling continuously in one hand all over the place (or so it seemed to me with my u..."
"Well here I am a week before I buy my new double staves dunno what to do! Its intense... The only thing I am unsure of is when I will light them up. I need to be totally prepared as ..."
"Okay, I've seen this done a million times, and I can do arm rolls on both sides both ways, and everyone keeps telling me it's just kind of like doing one arm roll to the other, or somet..."
"from DivX.comokie, its nearly therewell nearly here. 99 seconds of contact.as far as I can understand, codec's are magic little things that help your video watching software thingamijig..."
"Hey, I remember there was a post with a link to a site for building fire staff... So if you remember it or wanna take the time to post how to make a fire staff I would greatly appreciat..."
"been playing with big doubles - 1.5m fully wicked and am as yet unable to keep going thru a full burn cause the drag on them is unbeleivable. that combined with the already silly weight..."
Posted: by Phuhzzzie Wuhzzzie the Pumpkin King
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"I've been playing with staves a lot more lately and I'm getting good at as the topic suggests, rolling around on the ground. Try varitions of crouching, turning and back passes all toge..."
"Hi Sorry my english is very bad so i speack in french je fait du baton de feu depuis un peu plus d un an , j aimerais m entrainer avec du monde , si vous pouviez me conseiller des end..."
"I cracked the BTB weave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After a week of swolen ankles and lumps on the back of my noggin, I finally did it! "
"Ok, I'm now getting a little bored with my long double staffs, and think learning some double throws where BOTH staffs go into the air would getme back on track.So far, i've had no succ..."
"and now for good measure i have bent the first staff i ever used... always upsetting to lose an old friend, and i suppose 15months is not bad considering i knew very little about co..."
"Hey.. I've been poiing foir awhile now and just started doubles staff about a month or so ago. my doubles are almost 5 feet long, and I have done a search but havent really come up with..."
"Ever get the feeling that you have learnt too much and all the noo stuff is not yet good but all the old stuff is confused by all the new stuff so no stuff is working properly and you d..."
"The other day Minero was saying:"pretty soon im gonna run outa body parts to contact the staff on."Well, why dont we try crude staffing, you could do Dicktails (if you can keep wood in ..."
"quote: in both directions, forward and back, you can add an extra half turn on both sides of the body, for example with forwards figure eight done at the side of the body you can lay it..."
"yo,beggining to see a point commin where I dont have to use hands attall, humm.Anyway the contact thread is huge now so Im startin another with thease sick-ass moves.No hander catch (th..."
"First, I apologise if this thread could go on another one, I did do a search but nothing seemed all that suitable. However, feel free to moderate to ur hearts content...annyways,staff l..."
"Ok.I go to BodyJam at the gym on friday nights and there was a move in the bodyjam 20 independant woman track called the body roll. I believe this could be adapted slightly to make a w..."
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