WHY did you START POI??
Ok, this is a bit of trite query - there's a good chance it's been covered before - but I'm curious as to what prompted all your good selves to first start spinning. I thought about adding a poll, but am guessing answers will be too diverse to make it work.
Personally, I took up spinning as a means of establishing the size of a room, using the now illegal 'cat-poi', but I can imagine others came to it from a background of juggling, dancing, and hallucinogen-ing. Or, indeed, all three.
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WHY did you START POI??
Well I was in Australia for my second cousin's funeral (kangeroo chasing accident...) and we got attacked by a swarm of bush flies. I'd forgotten my hat with all the corks round the edge and the flies were just making me so MAD :evil: There were these citronella lamps on chains hanging around so I grabbed a couple and started swinging them at the flies in rage. While I was in hospital having my burns treated loads of people came to visit and told me that it looked really cool when I was spinning the fire so when I recovered I took up poi.
(for the real answers see the Sharing Experience thread.
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WHY did you START POI??
[quote="StoneT"]There were these citronella lamps on chains hanging around so I grabbed a couple and started swinging them at the flies in rage.
WHY did you START POI??
I went to an open air party, i ve seen a guy spinning fire. I said this is something I have to learn... :6
After a year i went to an other party to spin fire and the same guy came to me and said: "i like the style of your spinning, when did u start poi???".
For me poi is relaxing. When I want to be alone and relax, I just take my socks, go to the beach where r no people, put some nice music and spin. Maybe this is the reason I started... :2
WHY did you START POI??
I was snow boarding and dislocated my shoulder and fractured it in 3 places... they gave my sedatives and sent me home to the UK where, 4 months later, when the nhs finally got to me on the waiting list, they decided that it was too late for physio and told me i was fine. i couldn't move my right arm. so i started spinning and now i am all better again....
...that and i fancied the man who taught me...