Meteor

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Permalink Reply by Trae Spear on April 18, 2009 at 4:43am

playing with a meteor here... mostly trying contact stuff though (have you seen the dmenza video? its crazy). in the same boat you are: not a lot of info available, and not many other people doing it. so i am just making stuff up as i go... worked for poi so i dont see why it wont for meteor.

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Permalink Reply by Helen on April 19, 2009 at 8:59am

my friend jeff is playing with a fire meteor and he just made a snake meteor, pretty crazy stuff. I'll try to get him on here so you guys have another person to talk to!

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Permalink Reply by Kim Andre on April 28, 2009 at 12:19am

Im going for mostly staff, poi or just moves I find on the way. Not really into the contact stuff. I tried searching basicly every place there might be some tutorital but there are almost nothing anywhere! I should make some if I become good enough some day ... hahahahahah, yeah right.
Yeah I checked out the dmenza video, it was amazing! wish I had those skills.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bradt on May 22, 2009 at 6:59pm

I was going to post the same thing! There are so many good poi lessons on youtube but I found maybe 2 videos that help explain the very basics of meteor..otherwise I am lost and finding it difficult to advance at all with meteor. Where is the dmenza video?

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Permalink Reply by Carl Kirby on July 6, 2009 at 1:47pm

try this...... his name is chris rovo. it was filmed by someone in his workshop

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if you go to the youtube channel of the person who recorded these, there are 14 of these tutorials/ideas in total.
he covers
* Flowers
* Stalls
* Ways to hold the meteor And start a performance
* Spin poi with meteor
* Long to short poi moves with meteor
* Meteor poi hugs
* Meteor rope dart
* Multiprop meteor.
* Double meteor airwraps

and many more...... check it out, see if this helps your progression.
good luck!!
i havent delved into it yet but im just getting ideas for when i do.

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Permalink Reply by Matt C on August 20, 2009 at 2:28am

I've been playing around with meteor as well... I usually tie my two sock poi together and find that its reasonably balanced. It's true that you can figure a lot of it out with knowledge from poi and staff moves. I have been kind of making up my own style too, but am nowhere near consistent enough with it to do fire. There are a bunch of Chinese meteor videos for cirque du soleil and traditional chinese performance that show how its really done... lots of one and two handed rotors, and throws. Traditional meteors are much longer and heavier than the ones I've seen people spinning... they're supposed to be 2 meters long. That allows for much slower rotation than shorter meteors and more momentum to be built up so you can treat it more like a staff.

Start out with your basic a forward and backward two-beat weave, and be able to switch between them. Now, you can add beats to either side by letting the next ball spin over for a split second. Unlike a staff, you can let the rope wrap around your hands a bit to help you out with this. it helps if you concentrate on only one of the balls, and let the other one follow 180deg opposite of it. You can add a half rotation to either side and turn the two beat weave into a three and four beat. I'll post a video if I ever get access to a camera.

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