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So I just watched a video that blew my mind...

[Mel tech poi] "Me & my shadow"
Uploaded by Melanholi

I have so, so much to steal (ahem, I mean be inspired by!) from this guy. Sick stuff. Some of the prettiest tech spinning I've ever seen :D

Permalink Reply by Chemigal on May 5, 2009 at 12:37pm: i like the tuneage :) Also the poi looks good, but everything looks good to me as Im so crap haha; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Nick Nomad on May 5, 2009 at 3:42pm: Good find! I'm gonna go and learn it all now!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Xander on May 5, 2009 at 4:37pm: Guh **speechless**; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by paradicsom on May 5, 2009 at 10:51pm: Wow. That's all I can say, he's quite inspiring. I'd love to see an entire (uncutted) performance by him.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lindsay "LP" Love on May 5, 2009 at 11:32pm: Ha, I know what you mean, Chemigal... that was fantastic--it will be a while before I'm able to try those moves out, but he's quite the inspiration!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lye on May 6, 2009 at 1:00am: Pft. I'm not even ready to think about attacking a lot of that. I guess it's good to have something ready once I learn all the things I'm aiming for now... and this will make a lot more sense then.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Theodore Petrosky on May 6, 2009 at 6:38am: son of a gun! he and I have been playing around with the same ideas, just he beat me to it and god damn is it cool.
This is some of the most inspiring material I've seen in a long time. I'm very excited to try out some of his ideas.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Nick Nomad on May 6, 2009 at 6:42am: Theodore Petrosky said:
son of a gun! he and I have been playing around with the same ideas, just he beat me to it and god damn is it cool.

Thats exactly how i felt when i watched it... It all seems so obvious now!

Apparently he's russian. We obviously need to pay more attention to what's going on over there!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by McMc on May 6, 2009 at 11:41am: Sweet, some more learnable stuff to learn, although some of that stuff looked hard, haha.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lulu on May 6, 2009 at 12:25pm: I pray for the day i am that good.....may take me a lifetime!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kim Andre on May 6, 2009 at 3:52pm: that it inspiering, just like that I like to spinn even though Im not close to that good.
I will watch that video untill every move is stuck in my head so I can silently cry myself to sleep with a good reason!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Theodore Petrosky on May 7, 2009 at 5:17am: Nick Nomad said:
Theodore Petrosky said:
son of a gun! he and I have been playing around with the same ideas, just he beat me to it and god damn is it cool.

Thats exactly how i felt when i watched it... It all seems so obvious now!

Apparently he's russian. We obviously need to pay more attention to what's going on over there!

Haha, it's interesting, I've seen a lot of very interesting russian spinners on youtube. Definitely keep an eye out for the next big ideas comin' from there. :P; ▶ Reply to This

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