Defined ~ Poi Body

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Although my experience with different types of poi is kind of limited.
Could also say that it's whatever connects the poi handle to the poi head.

The string, chain, rope or whatever in between the head and the handle.

glowstick ball.... All looks good here.
Rev do you live in France?

hell no.. france is by far not Rev's world..

and we do have a simple definition for poi.. its ball.. lol..

oh and if it were so cut and dry spiral I doubt there would be the slight confusion... there's vagueness in everything.. we're trying to reduce that to the most finite amount..

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string seems to be more universal.. so string then...

1) I say head and tail are attached to body.. in most instances head and tail are attached together (mostnot all cases).. thus body is poi head...

2) when you talk about your poi.. you talk of glowsticks, or fire poi.. or this poi or that poi.. usually refer'ing to the poi itself.. by the head.. or rather what the head is made of/for... as if the head were the whole thing.. thus the head includes the body..

3)poi means ball.. poi does not mean ball on string.. therefore the poi body is the what the head is made from... unlike the poi head which is the center of gravity.. the poi handle which is how you hold the poi (not necessarily part of the poi interms of what makes up a 'poi').. and the poi chain/string which is refer'd to as itself...

the poi is nothing more then the head and though English spekaing countries have bastardized it, I'm a bit of a nut for respect to education.. and I feel that to educate someone on the poi as the whole is misrepresenting what poi as an art is.. and misrepresenting poi altogether.. now though HoP made it nice to disclaier this by including a brief history section, I feel that this will kind of help teach the histroy in a difgferent manner.. now they see this and go but why.. learn a little bit of what poi is and where it came from.. and learn what the word -does- mean.. not what the slang is.. that could be added in a footnote.. you know..

that's my rant on that.. now that i again have support.. thank you pollenski I was going to just let it die.. but if other believe as I then its not for naught. hehe

(rant) To think outside of poi, a head and tail are part of a body, not the whole. A lizard's body includes a head and tail...but I don't think this works with non-animals... but I do think that a poi can have more than one body down it's string and the head is THE body at the furthest end of the string... a tail comes off from a comet's body, the head of a corporation is only the top person...many more examples...

...as a continuation of my point above, just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, what about some poi incorporating different types of bodies along the string? A fire/glow combo could look very good/strange and would only have the head made of one or the other, with a further differently constructed body elsewhere on the string...would you then call it just by the head? No beacause it wouldn't be accurate and so the head doesn't include the body but is an example of a body.

...and there isn't necessarily a distinction between words from one language to another, for example: ask the greeks for a word for love and they'll give you 10+ (no, i don't know them, one of them's eros and anothers amos i think though!), ask the maori for an english word for poi and they might say ball or they might say ball on string! Knowing a few new zealanders they all refer to poi as poi, not a ball.

As for language, language is constantly evolving and what might be slang this year might be in the dictionary as a 'official' word next year. If you'd posted in chaucer's english I might respect your opinions a bit more on that.(/rant)

I'm with spiralx on this one.

We do get kind of silly about this stuff some times. :roll: But in the end it's all good.

wait.... I used an argument to back polenski up and he came back and argued against me?

LMMFAO
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I surrender.. the only reason as stated in the argument weas because someone becaked me up.. I could care less.. which is why I brough tit back up orginally to finally get defined

but that's beyond the point.. what has been slanged is not necessarily what the term is.. which is defined.. its not that we took it.. people here use the term that way too.. hence slang not english definition..

to put away any concerns about the term itself..

how about this.. let you word people.. have some semantic enjoyment..

Poi body - The material the poi is made from..

there... now those of thus that think Poi means poid head/tail... poi stuff.. are right

AND
those that think poi is all the freaking poi can be right too..

I'm going with spiralx

okay okay I wanna keep arguing about this poi body thing. I think that poi body is when a person who spin enough so that the muscles used for spinning get worked hard enough to make them grow, and look sort of fuuny compared to the rest of the body.

spiralx: to undermine my love of an author you should be shot.... but point taken

Achluo, my forearms did that 8O I'm not like a disney cartoon or anything but certainly is differant

So...

Poi body

The string/rope/chain/whatever between handle and head.

Arguments?