Respect from Sista Firewire

Hello,

I think I remember you in COL3

Your finger puppets are crazy looking, I like

I was taught a few basics first. The Under the Leg stuff was shown to me by a guy called Alex in San Francisco. Hyperllos I discovered ages ago but didn't think they were of any real use or be controlled well. Then I got back into them recently. Most other things I discovered myself. I've always been quite a loner on the poi circuit, that's why I have a fairly unique style. I discovered the 'Impossible Weaves' myself. I thought that they were possible and knew that if I could nail them then all my butterfly moves could be linked in to all my weave moves. I've never seen anyone else do the throws and catches like I do them. I did use to teach poi at a circus workshop in brighton. I got to see some amazing club jugglers. This reall yinspired me to start throwing my opi around. Then I realised that I could Isolate the throws, which keeps the poi Inside the circular plane that you normally spin in, it also means you can keep them in time.

Not a grat deal at the moment. I almost always have my poi on me, If I go out dancing I'll spin for maybe 8 hours at a time. At burningman 2003 I performed at 'The Burn'. That night I span for about 12 out of 14 hours I have always found there to be an optimum speed to spin at, where by you recieve more energy than you use, this means that you can spin indefinitely. Often I find if I stop spinning I get really saw muscles and just have to carry on.

Yep, this was the test video I did. I never really intended it to all go on teh web. I thought about changing the covers on my poi to a different colour, but the quality of the spinning would have been reduced, especially th ethrows and catches. I am able to alter the colours to make the poi stand out more, but for now I'm just concentrating on getting as much footage up on the net as possible. Also, I have uploaded only 70 of 201 clips, in no particular order. You should find all the answers you require in the other videos. I can inlcude movie frame controls, play, pause, 1/2 speed and so on. But again I just wanted to get stuff up quickly. Also I like for poiple to figure stuff out for themselves, otherwise I could end up giving away lots of poi secrets without poiple understanding what they are doing. I think this may do more harm than good. Nothing you learn in poi should be difficult. Every small step should be relatively simple to accomplish. If you find it hard to follow the hand movements of a 5 beat impossible weave then you are probably not quite ready to learn it.

Good suggestion though. I'll definitely do stuff like that for the final videos.

Temp Directory is where the files save to and you need to copy them from there. As long as they are in your temp directory they won't need to download again.

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