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Posted: 11th Nov 2004
Hello and welcome to HoP!!

My state of mind is not yours to define!

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

Posted: 11th Nov 2004
Im sorry im nowere near Texas or Italy but hello & 2 the community anyway.

Tell us a little more about your self, name, age, toy experiences etc.

fire leads to creation

Posted: 11th Nov 2004
Hi!

welcome to the madhouse!

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...

Posted: 11th Nov 2004
Hello

Do you like the colour pink?

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...

Posted: 11th Nov 2004
plenty of Folks in houston, dallas, san antonio, and austin, but not sure about corpus.

I have a good poi spinning friend in Bologna (who's not much of a HoPper, but is registered I think).

welcome to HoP

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!

Posted: 11th Nov 2004
hello!

Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering...

Posted: 13th Nov 2004
Name: Logan

Age: 20 (June 84)

City of Birth: Hartford, CT USA





I have actually... uhhh... Never spun poi before... I started spinning glowsticks a couple years ago.. I never really took it seriously because I was always too busy. However I did pick it up pretty quickly. I was looking through the free online poi lessons on this site and went through the list of "tricks" only to find that they were all things I learned in the first few days of spinning glowsticks. The only trick on the list I have a problem performing is the behind the back weave.. But I think I need to stretch my arms out a little more...



About two years ago I moved to San Antonio and soon after started getting into the "rave" scene.. I was fascinated by the people spinning the glowsticks around. It did not take me long to replicate the shoe lace affixed cyalume design.. After I learned the tricks I saw others do I eventually stumbled across the rest I know... But now it seems I am at a standstill...



For the last week I have been going to the beach (I live on an island so the beach is less than a mile away) and have been attempting to come up with new tricks. Aside from a couple small changes in certain patterns and timing I have been unable to think of a distinctly new trick... So I thought I would go online and see if I could find some poi to purchase and some friends to make!



I go to San Antonio and Houston fairly often so if anyone is from either of those places let me know if we could meet up sometime... I also go to Italy and Scotland every year to visit friends and family. It would be awsome if on one of my trips I could maybe hop over to another European country and meet with some of the members on this forum.. I am dieing to meet people who enjoy spinning poi as much as I do. .. Or who even enjoy it at all...



So anyways... I have never actually spun fire poi but the mechanics are the same as glowsticks (just have to remeber not to do wraps unless I have applied flame retardant chemicals). And the flesh charring balls of inferno added to the equation do not intimidate me in the least bit so I think the transition should be a smooth one. lol.



I am rambling .. I just drove three and a half hours through desolate farm land to get back from Houston today and I am kind of REALLY worn out... I hate living in Texas...

Well I am happy to have been welcomed to the site . Sorry if I sound kind of dull and serious right now. I just need to get some rest.

Lates.

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Posted: 13th Nov 2004
I see they don't believe in paragraphs in your part of the world.

I'm sure every single word you've wrttien is fascinating. But i just can't look at huge blocks of text like that. Make my head swim.

Sorry dude. Can you break it up a bit?


Thanks

Meh

Posted: 14th Nov 2004
Sorry about that Cantus. I broke it up a bit.. but that does not mean it will be any easier to read.. heh.

I need sleep..
Lates.

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Posted: 14th Nov 2004
Welcome, Infra!

And thanks to Cantus for suggesting breaking up the paragraphs... Spaces make text a lot easier to read for old fogies like C@ntus and I...

Have you tries the Meet Otters search to find local spinners... ?

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Posted: 15th Nov 2004
hey! don't be so hard on Texas!

anyway, there is a cool fire gathering once a month in Houston, with smaller ones more often just for practice (spinning sans fire). If you look up Spritie, Spitfire, or Mand here on HoP, they can give you all the details. Also check out GreatBallsOfFire on yahoogroups - it is a low traffic (ie. no chatting, just announcements and relevant discussion) email group for Houston area fire peeps, but people from all over Texas arre on it and you can often get info about other things of interest happing in the state

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!

Posted: 15th Nov 2004
Gidg bounces in on her pogo stick ... boing ... boing ... boing ...

It looks like we are getting a group going in Texas, now all they have to do is get in the same city.

Welcome to HoP Infra.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.

Gidg

Posted: 16th Nov 2004
Awsome! Thanks for the info Vanize!

As for Texas, it is just not for me... Well my section of it anyways.. I am not a warm climate type of person, and South Texas has a very hot climate. I do not even want to think about the humidity.. It is awful! Living on the island is only slightly better than the mainland because we get the prevailing winds coming off the Gulf of Mexico.

The main reason I do not like living here though is the culture/locals... Ignorance and lazyness thrives .. I am going to stop my senseless complaining now..

It is only Corpus I would never recommend as a place to move.. Though I do like Austin, Houston has its benefits, and living in San Antonio for two years was not all that bad...

Right well I now have to drive 30 minutes to get into town... lates

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Posted: 16th Nov 2004
Hey man. to the HoP

"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."

Bill Hicks, February 1988

Posted: 17th Nov 2004
yeah, I agree that corpus christi is a little weird - heck think about the name - "body of christ"! That doesn't bode well...

I am a warm/hot climate person though, currently stuck in a cold one! BBBBRRRRRR!

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!

Posted: 19th Nov 2004

Written by: Pink...?

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Hello

Do you like the colour pink?

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Sorry I have yet to answer you.. I am not offended by the colour pink.. However my favourite colour has always been black.


Well Vanize I would most gladly exchange locations with you.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2004
Poor Vanize Can we talk you into an trip to OZ in say ... mid February?

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.

Gidg

Posted: 29th Dec 2004
I just received my beaming poi from HOP and I am loving them! They are much heavier than I had anticipated, but it now seems a LOT easier to complete all the tricks I know. And I love the colour of the blue LED lightsticks. Thanks a lot HOP! So now do I get some space to upload a video of me spinning?? huh? Do I??

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Posted: 29th Dec 2004
in answer to your first post, there are spinners in milan.
just not on homeofpoi!.

Posted: 1st Mar 2005
!! I live !! (I fear I may have to reintroduce myself it has been so long.. heh)... Hello everyone! Wow.. It is amazing how quickly time flies! School(getting bach. in architecture), work (part time at a book store), and the piano(at least four hours of practice a day) suck up all of my time. But I am getting the piano tuned and its action reworked right now so it will be down for a week or so ... But it gives me more time to practise POI ! Speaking of which!!!! I have been invited to spin at a local outdoor bar called the Blue Lagoon! I have never spun in front of a mob of people all staring at me before though... I can feel the butterflies in my stomach... ugh.. I imagine it will be very fun.... But first I am going to need to order new fire poi , and I was wondering which style I should get... Also.. Can I use the chains from my beaming poi and just buy the fire poi heads?
Thanks,
Logan

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Posted: 1st Mar 2005
... Hmm. Maybe I should narrow the field of options down a little bit.. The fire poi head styles I am torn between are the mokey fist, the tube core, and the cathedral. I am only looking for a single head per chain/wire. How are the weka fire poi? I need something that will last a while. How do these poi compare in weight to the Beaming poi I purchased from HOP?...

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005
.. My piano is still being fixed, I have a cold, I just took my Architecture midterm, and yes, I know I am talking to myself...

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005
y0! congratulations, because i anti-hate you!!

-James

"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
Awsome! Thanks for some attention! I just wish someone would answer my question about the weight comparison between the beaming poi and one of the nifty fire poi heads sold in the HOP store... Anyone?

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Posted: 10th Mar 2005
Can't answer for sure but my best guess is that they are close to the weight and speed of a pair of the 8'x2"x1/8" cathedral wicks fully fueled. The good news is that cathedrals hurt less when you hit yourself with them, even when they are on fire.

Welcome to HoP!

"My skin is singed but it heals my heart and with glowing pride I'll wear my scars." -Davey Havok

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
8'x2"x1/8" !! wow... Eight feet? What dimension is that for? The combined length of chains affixed to the heads is all I can think of...



So the 2.5" monkey fists should weigh less than the plastic beaming poi?...

The beaming poi are fun and easy to control, but their weight severley diminishes the speed I often want to spin at. This brings another question to mind... Say for example you have a set of 2.5" fire poi and you spin them very quickly. How well does the flame stay alit?



And am I able to use the chains I currently have attached to my beaming poi with the separately sold fire poi heads in the HOP shop??

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Posted: 13th Mar 2005
I went skydiving today... It was pretty fun, but it was not the rush I thought it would have been. If nothing else it supplied me with a great view of as-far-as-the-unfortunate-eye-could-see flat, barren, and devoid-of-any-sort-of-aestheticly-pleasing-value farmland from 10500 ft (3200m). But I still recomend it to those of you who have never attempted it.


This is turning into an online journal...

Sigh... Anyone have any interesting or funny stories about one of their skydiving experiences? Anything...? At all? Maybe even just a simple answer to one of my questions above.....above.... above...above.....



-_-
goodnight..

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Posted: 4th Apr 2005
Not that anyone cares...
My dog has congestive heart failure and the vet says it does not look good

He is going to try and remove some of the water around his heart tonight so it will beat more normally. But even with the meds the vet does not give him more than a couple of months... Everything is going to be so empty without him. He is the only creature I even like. Sigh... How the hell can I study now! I feel sick

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Posted: 4th Apr 2005
Sorry to hear about your dog!

Posted: 4th Apr 2005


Sorry about a mixed post, but I suppose that's what I get for catching up late. Very sorry to hear about your dog. Keep up posted won't you?

Also, I notice it's been a while since you first posted. I bet you've got btb moves nailed by now