There's a fire burning in my soul...

** From Indiana came forth Soul in a flurry of passion ablaze.

It is my intention in coming here to learn and to share. The more I learn, the more I am able to express myself in dance.

in Western Astrology: Gemini Sun, Cancer Moon, Aquarius Rising
in Mayan Astrology: Spectral Moon

Much of my time is devoted to study. I attend classes both at a conventional university and at a school devoted to understanding of the self. At IUPUI, I study Informatics and specialize in Web Technology. At the School of Metaphysics, I study epistemology, concentration, dreams, personality, and a variety of other topics.

I love to travel and am all about putting up out-of-towners for a couple nights. I've been spinning fire for two years now, and a year before that unlit. Until this year, I'd only met Midwest twirlers. Now I've come in contact with Florida and SF Bay area spinners as well as a collection of 'au-natural' twirlers from all around the US.

Poi is my main apparatus, though I have made some practice meteors which I'm having a lot of fun with and have a practice staff as well. I would rank my poi abilities as Intermediate to Advanced from how I've seen moves organized in teaching. I am working to perfect turning in BTB, in UTL, and with flowers. Practicing anti-spin, isolations, and air-wraps.

If you're ever in the Indianapolis area, contact me for some fire fun-ness!

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hey soul... :57
good to see you on spherculism, Sphism/gigglesmiley i seem to have already read most of you're posts! i've been spinning poi for 2 years now and like you have just been getting to the stage where i'm meeting peeps from all over the UK. it's an amazing experience to be part of the poi community and site like this go a long way to bringing us all closer together regardless of distance! anyway hope you have fun here + find everything you look for...

chris
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Hi there welcome to the site :57 . the peeps around here will to the best to help when ever. and me too with my small knowledge. just got back from travelling italy awsome! Sphism/gigglesmiley

Nice to meet you and see you around the site.

Welcome soul!

Awesome to have you

Travelling is fantastic. I love it

Fire spinner..luvly

Au-natural?? Whats this Sphism/smilesmiley

I'm afraid I have little to say right now. Both legs are asleep and so my mind is deverted. See you later!

-Poikid-

Good to have you aboard Soul,

I've been thinking about that horizontal trinity stuff and i reckon its possible, with or without double-joints Sphism/winksmiley

Teaching's the best form of learning.

Take it easy,

¦m¦

Thank you for the welcomes! Poikid - by 'au-natural' I mean all natural... hippie camping types Sphism/smilesmiley

Matt - I'm glad someone else sees the possibilities of trinity in places other than the hoizontal plane! I can see it in my head... now to figure out how to tell my hands how to tell my poi how to do it :-D Keep me updated on any ideas you have with it!

Lovin you all! :2

Hey soul!
Welcome Sphism/gigglesmiley
Sounds like your gonna fit in just fine round here (like anyone ever doesn't Sphism/winksmiley )

That trinity thing, I might have done a very basic example of it, if I understand your meaning, kind of a 4bt corkscrew weave with the bottom plane turned up a bit, but when you spin them horizontal above your head turn 180* in the same direction as they spin, before bringing them down again.

... Sphism/confusedsmiley As I said, very basic + probably not what you mean.
But what do you mean? Sphism/smilesmiley
:29

It's a move I've never seen performed, and hadn't heard any talk of until I asked about it. Some doubt that it can be done!

Essentially, from a corkscrew (let's say two beat for simplicity's sake) turn the top plane down 35º and the bottom plane up 35º, then add in a plane exactly opposite of the point toward which you turned the other two planes. You'll end up with a triangular plane structure, hands in three positions that are 120º apart. Needless to say, there are a variety of directions to turn the planes when creating the triangle, and thus a variety of places to place the new plane.

More discussion at Horizontal Trinity? in Sphericulism Poi Tutorials: Everything else you wanna know.

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