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Location: CT
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Location: CT
Posted:
Hello fellow pyronauts!
When watching my schools fire performance group, I realized that our performances are sadly restricted by gravity. Aside from the occasional flurry of throws, all of our fire spinnings stay on ground level, which in my mind hampers our coolness. I thought that a good way to fix this problem without costly powerrisers or the like would be to put various toys and flaming objects on long poles.
Are pole poi, multi headed pole poi possible, or does it take too much stregnth to spin at the end of a stick? I was thinking to use telescoping pruning saw staves as the basis for my deviancy.
Oye. Thanks alot.
Hello fellow pyronauts!
When watching my schools fire performance group, I realized that our performances are sadly restricted by gravity. Aside from the occasional flurry of throws, all of our fire spinnings stay on ground level, which in my mind hampers our coolness. I thought that a good way to fix this problem without costly powerrisers or the like would be to put various toys and flaming objects on long poles.
Are pole poi, multi headed pole poi possible, or does it take too much stregnth to spin at the end of a stick? I was thinking to use telescoping pruning saw staves as the basis for my deviancy.
Oye. Thanks alot.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
Posted:
If you can dream it, you can do it!
Don't forget, there's always staff
Let us know how it turns out.
If you can dream it, you can do it!
Don't forget, there's always staff
Let us know how it turns out.
-James
"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"
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Posted:
Exactly what I was going to say
Written by: sparkey!
Don't forget, there's always staff
Exactly what I was going to say
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big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
Posted:
what a cool idea
let us know how it goes...
cole. x
what a cool idea
let us know how it goes...
cole. x
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3,149 posts
Location: London
3,149 posts
Location: London
Posted:
oooh you mean like puppet poi, far above the madding crowd?
wot cole sed
oooh you mean like puppet poi, far above the madding crowd?
wot cole sed "Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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3 posts
Location: CT
3 posts
Location: CT
Posted:
yeah like flaming halberds with snakes on them, or something like the windsocks on sticks you see at parades. Thats a sweet idea simian! a set of poi / flammable maniquin/ on a stick that you can manipulate with strings. hmm. that sounds almost feasible too. too bad kevlar and fuel weigh so much- fire kites might be sick too if possible.
yeah like flaming halberds with snakes on them, or something like the windsocks on sticks you see at parades. Thats a sweet idea simian! a set of poi / flammable maniquin/ on a stick that you can manipulate with strings. hmm. that sounds almost feasible too. too bad kevlar and fuel weigh so much- fire kites might be sick too if possible.
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31 posts
Location: Northern Ireland, Antrim, Ballycastle
31 posts
Location: Northern Ireland, Antrim, Ballycastle
Posted:
I do a few throws with both staff and pois. But i gess thats not what u are looking for
I do a few throws with both staff and pois. But i gess thats not what u are looking for
Thomas Bjork
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