building fire chains

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Permalink Reply by Theodore Petrosky on October 19, 2009 at 1:27am

I got my chains at Petco. :P

Haha it's all a matter of what you want. I love Dube and all, and everyone there is really nice when I go in, but when it comes to Poi they really can't be trusted. Their chains are HUGE, and it really affects how you spin. I got my first fire poi from Dube, and I discovered that their chains are so heavy that when doing a stall, the poi head is stalled - but the chain keeps going.

But I still bought their kevlar wicking and made my own poi. Really, just go around and find chains that are guaranteed strong and won't break. Hope this helped. :P

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Permalink Reply by nicollk on October 19, 2009 at 3:57am

Def. thinking of getting their kevlar.. thanks for the tip on the other hardware. :)



Theodore Petrosky said:

I got my chains at Petco. :P

Haha it's all a matter of what you want. I love Dube and all, and everyone there is really nice when I go in, but when it comes to Poi they really can't be trusted. Their chains are HUGE, and it really affects how you spin. I got my first fire poi from Dube, and I discovered that their chains are so heavy that when doing a stall, the poi head is stalled - but the chain keeps going.

But I still bought their kevlar wicking and made my own poi. Really, just go around and find chains that are guaranteed strong and won't break. Hope this helped. :P

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Permalink Reply by Fire Mecca on October 23, 2009 at 7:46pm

We have some construction tutorials at Fire Mecca:

http://www.firemecca.com/t-tutorials.aspx

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Permalink Reply by Derek Faughn on October 24, 2009 at 10:20pm

And fire mecca's 2mm chains are AWESOME! I dont know why more people dont use 2mm.

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Permalink Reply by nicollk on October 25, 2009 at 12:27am

Crazy ive been watching videos of you for about 45 minutes now. very helpful dude. thanks. :)

Derek Faughn said:

And fire mecca's 2mm chains are AWESOME! I dont know why more people dont use 2mm.

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Permalink Reply by Derek Faughn on October 25, 2009 at 7:06pm

Thanks! I'm REALLY glad to hear that people actually enjoy my videos!

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Permalink Reply by Lye on October 26, 2009 at 3:09am

the fine choke chain here: http://www.arcatapet.com/category.cfm?catnum=52 is a little better and very cheap, though you have few length options and I'd cut off the rings at the end.

You might even be able to use the extra fine chain. I didn't tell you that if it breaks and if it doesn't, tell me that. :)

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