Poi Documentary - Poll

Hi poiple,

If you have some spare time I'd be very glad if you would support me by reading this thread and give me your valuable opinion - I need your help. I can promise you that it is worth it - if you want to know why, just read on

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First of all I'd like to ask you something:
Who have been the most inspiring and impressive poi spinners for you personally in the last few years?

Is it Nick, Yuta, Ronan, Rob, Drew, Sage - or anyone completely else?

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I know that a poll like this might cause some discussions or even annoyance but by no means do I want to start another "who is the best spinner in the world" discussion - if you feel offended already and would love to lynch the guy who has the guts to ask a shameless question like this I really do have to apologize. I am not talking about the "best" but about the most "inspiring" or "impressive" poi spinners for you personally. I would very much like to explain to you why I ask you this question.

For starters I want to give you some background information about myself. My name is Max, I am 21 years old and I am a prospective film maker from Germany. So far I shot a couple of short films and documentaries, some of them award-winning, some of them not hehe. Right now I start out one of the biggest projects I've ever done so far, a project which is huge, expensive and exciting. Exciting not only for me but also for the entire spinning community.
I have always had this plan to shoot a major film that challenges and interests me equally before starting a "typical" filmmaker's career (which is lots of not-so-exciting internships and then studying at film school). A few months ago I then came up with the idea to shoot a documentary about "poi" spinning.

Now one of the things that is very important for every documentary is to clarify some basic questions.
In this case some of those questions might be "What is poi?" ,"Where are the roots of poi-spinning?" and "Who are the people that made poi so popular and what it is today?".

These are only a few essentials outsiders need to know to really understand where this art is coming from. I've been thinking a lot about what people need to know about Poi, what kind of things I'd personally enjoy to see in a documentary and which facts have to be mentioned etc.
But as every human being I am a very subjective person and my perceiption of who eventually is or has been incredible important for the entire spinning community is disturbed by my subjectivity. This is where you come in! I would love to hear your opinion, your personal experiences and little stories about which spinners had the most impact on you and which ones pushed the whole community most in your opinion. My plan would then be to go to the top three or five of those spinners and do a couple of interviews & shooting with them.

To give you a foretaste of what is to come if my plan works out and I finally get to work with those great people I'd like to show you what "my films" look like. Thus I uploaded a demo reel I made for a friend a couple of days ago: DemoReel

This should be enough early information about the project - more to come! I'll get in touch with the people I'd love to have in the documentary asap and explain everything to them in a more detailed manner

Thank you so much for your time and efforts to read through the entire thread and I'd love to hear from you!

Keep spinnig!
Max