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Posted: 17th Dec 2004
Hey 32 aint bad, it's been 28 for the last three days and spinning with a big jacket on is hard

Death to all who disobey

Posted: 17th Dec 2004
Yow! That is cold and you are braver than I to spin outside in that kind of weather. I stay in my basement until it hits 50 or so...I never thought about trying to spin with a big coat on. All the pictures you generally see are people wearing summer clothes... I don't know much about the "scene" or "lifestyle" or what have you since we don't have one here... unless there's some closet poi group in Des Moines I've never met.

I wonder what time it is in Europe... it's 10:30 pm central time here so it's probably 11:30 in Delaware so I have to wonder... are they sleeping? I suppose I should be sleeping but what fun is there in that?

Later,

Ilanah

If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution.

AnonymousPLATINUM Member

Posted: 17th Dec 2004
Welcome Back!
Cheers!

Posted: 17th Dec 2004
Ha! I love the "Badger" song! I see in your avatar that you may be somewhat familiar with it *blinks innocently*? Badger, badger, badger, badger, mushroom, mushroom... please stop me if you just think I'm a loon...

Thanks for the welcome!

Ilanah

If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution.

AnonymousPLATINUM Member

Posted: 17th Dec 2004
No worries! I had to change my avatar when some newbie started using the old one! Just the badger dancing.
And just come up north and complain about the cold!

Posted: 17th Dec 2004
You're in Canada? Ok, I take back any complaining about the cold in Iowa. Dare I ask the temp there today?

PS. I took a look at your profile... please tell me "cat twirling" has nothing to do with actual housecats *as my sweet kitty Pasha looks up at me trustingly * ha!

Ilanah

If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution.

Posted: 17th Dec 2004
Speaking of avatars, I keep trying to put a decent picture in mine, but the files are all too big I guess... maybe I need to look for something simpler, like clip art...

Ilanah

If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution.

Posted: 21st Dec 2004
Gidg bounces in on her pogo stick ... boing ... boing ... boing ...

Welcome back to HoP Ilanah.

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: 21st Dec 2004
Ilanah resize your picture for the Avitar. Make it less than 80 x 80 pix and it should work. If you don't know how to do that email it to me and I'll do it for you.

Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!

Posted: 21st Dec 2004
The search or "durbs" function isn't to great, I tend to find using the " " marks makes it a little better. And if its move help you want maybe you should try narrowing your search by only looking in the moves forum etc. Or going through the free lessons if you haven't already of course

Let's relight this forum

Posted: 21st Dec 2004
Welcome back

Do you like the colour pink?

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...

Posted: 21st Dec 2004
Thanks for the help you guys. I will try making the picture smaller on my avatar although I have no idea how to do that so I may take you up on your offer, skul. thanks!

I will go through the free lesson part too to get the help with the butterfly. I can do most of the advanced wave moves on the video because I already know how to do them with swords and ribbon sticks from belly dancing. The Butterfly is a whole new animal...you would so totally laugh at me if you saw me in my basement. But so far I haven't gotten frustrated enough to throw my poi out the window, so I guess that is a good sign.

And I love the color pink.

If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution.

Posted: 21st Dec 2004
Yay, I figured out how to make my picture smaller for my avatar! Ok, that is a blatant lie. I had help. But it's still cool!

*dances around in a little happy circle*

Ilanah

If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution.

Posted: 22nd Dec 2004
Glad you love the colour pink too

nice avatar

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...

Posted: 23rd Dec 2004
Pink is a beautiful color! Almost as good as purple *hides*



Ilanah

If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution.

AnonymousPLATINUM Member

Posted: 23rd Dec 2004

Posted: 23rd Dec 2004
he heh.. patrick got me to say that too.. but i dont agree

oOo Look At The Pretty Fire.. oOo Touch The Pretty Fire oO.. OWW THE PRETTY FIRE BURNT ME!

Posted: 24th Dec 2004
Patrick are you being a bad influence again?

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: 24th Dec 2004
When is Patrick not being a bad influence?

Purple is a good colour though, i'm not doubting that.

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...

Posted: 24th Dec 2004
Please excuse my sleep deprived state, and the long post. I know this isn't the official "I learned a new move area," but I just had to post that at around 4 AM this morning I finally cracked the butterfly move. *dances around in a lot of happy circles*

l know I posted in my intro thread that it was one of my recent accomplishments but that was a blatant lie really as I have only been able to get it to work a couple of times before tangling my poi and getting frustrated and moving on to something else... the last couple of weeks have been frustrating in general as I can do the waves and other harder moves but just couldn't do the friggin' bf no matter what I tried and I live 180 miles from anyone who knows how to do the darn thing properly. You can't ask a video what you are doing wrong...

I tried showing my dance troupe how cool poi are and they were encouraging I guess but not many tried it and they were mostly not interested...

So it took having a friend watch that part of the video, and then watch me try to do it. I think just having someone watch me at all was helpful as last night I was starting to feel very alone in this endeavor... so he said "try this..." and it still took awhile but by the end of the practicing I could do the darn thing over 42 times in a row without tangling...could have gone longer but just couldn't hold my arms straight out in front of me any longer.(My muscles were kind of fatigued by that point I guess.)

Also we put the black lights from my annual Halloween party up in the basement and what a difference it makes with the glowing practice poi under the UV!

Honestly last night I was feeling very alone and depressed and was thinking about leaving the list and was wondering if this poi thing was even for me.... After the 4 am revelation I was too excited to sleep for a couple more hours (hence the sleep deprivation as it is now 8:20 am and I only slept for a little while...)

Anyway, I'll stop now but I just wanted to thank you all for being a resource for people like me who don't have others in our area who do poi and are trying to spark interest in their town in such a cool pastime and art form. I think I'll stick around for awhile.

Happy Christmas Eve,

Ilanah

If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution.

Posted: 5th Jul 2005
well, it's nice to see there are othe iowan's spinning fire too. hey just so you know a good friend of mine spins fire in des moines. He does dart rope, poi, glowsticks, and these crazy glove things that have lights on only the fingertips. if you want his contact information i know he'd be down to spin. send me a pm and i'll reply. I however live in cedar rapids but the group here is totally down to meet up.