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- Fire / Glow / Other Arts
- Poi, Staff, Glowsticking, Dancing
- How did you first get into fire / glow arts, and how long have you been involved?
- in college atm, got my first of poi and staff when people down for a con brought their gear and showed some stuff off. now looking at setting up a club in college to spread the love
- Tell us about your life outside of fire / glow arts...
- working in a nightclub as a barman saving up money for college i also am involved in the college dance club and games society as well as a few others
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lol, idk of the toys ive played with sticks have been the most challenging for me, but thats not to say i'm meant to be a great stickist. i got this one kid from my neighborhood spinning sticks, i sware to god the first week he spun he was better th…
I swear sticks aren't that bad :-P But granted, I never set them on fire... I'll try that next time. Need to figure out how to make my own set and get the weights right.
Poi is fun and easy to make. Stop 1 go to Hot Topic, buy some REALLY nifty tights, step two go to Walmart, pick up rice and cheap pantyhose and tube socks. Put a cup of rice into the pantyhose feet, tie and cut off. put balls of rice into the tube s…
lol, so i was kinda ambitious and naive at the same time and started with the devil sticks. ambitious because, as i quickly found out, sticks is one of the hardest and MOST frustrating spinning toy to play with, much less start with. but i was naive…
Start with something you enjoy! It will take a lot of practice to get to the point of being comfortable with the tool before igniting wicks and playing with fire, so if you don't enjoy it--likely it will be hard to want to put in the practice time.…
I started with poi, and then hula hoop and fire eating and breathing, then levi-stick, and now I'm working on contact staff.
I really think the best way to go is just get socks and put tennis balls or rice or whatever in the ends. I see no point in…
hey paddy
i started with yo-yo, astro- jax, and diablo at the tender age of 9 then 10 yrs later started with poi and flower sticks and am now obsessed with poi
http://www.homeofpoi.com/shop/productDetails/Pair-of-onepiece-Cone-POI
i recommend th…
Glowstringing. The youth, what can ya do?
The lot! Poi, staffs, nunchucks, juggling. They all help each other. :)
I started with poi... then moved on to staff, then contact staff. Then i moved back to poi again!
In my opinion, poi is the place to start. It has a very steep learning curve and builds more initial coordination than the others. That however, is an…
that's pretty epic alright
yeah it would be pretty cool, it help keep spam down in forums and stops conversations between just two people. the forum may go quiet for a little while after but it helps keep discussions on topic.. not an issue atm but as the community grows it m…
well a wooden one is a staff when the head is off so how bad :p
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Deni here sayin Hi, Im new to the firegarden and just saw there that you're in Ireland and am delighted! Well I'm just startin out with poi really and was hoping you might know some people in the cork, Tipp,Lim area that I could get a bit of instruction from with the poi.Im an ex Dub this many years , spend alot of time in Sligo as some gud mates up dat way, also spend bita time in Lim and west cork.Would be really grateful if U could give me bit of help startin off . Im learning everythin through youtube videos and practicin away here in the hse but would dearly luv to learn from a human :-) too!
theres not a whole lot goin on in North Tipp where Im at at the mo...pois keepin the head together:-) cheers Deni
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