learn fire poi

A friend bought me a couple of poi spinning tutorial videos and they arrived a couple of days ago. I so far have only gotten to check out one, but it’s called “Poi Groove Basics” and I must say, I’m very impressed with it—tons of moves, slow mo option and you can loop one move over and over automatically, which is cool if you’re trying to master a move. If you’re looking to learn, definitely give this one a shot. The other one which came is called “Poi Spinning for Beginners”, as I haven’t yet popped that one in the player I’ll have to save the review for later. Anyway, w00t! :)

I got some spinning time in over the holiday, some of the first pics I ever got taken when spinning at night. My moves are still limited, but it was a lot of fun.

Yay! The practice poi I ordered have arrived! I’ve been practicing some very basic moves and I have to say it’s very frustrating. I know I’ll get better with time and I’m not going to give up based on a little frustration, but I sort of hoped I’d catch on quicker than this.

Yes, I jumped ahead of the game (last Xmas) and got a couple of LED type poi poi to practice with. Not a good idea. They’re hard and they really hurt when they thwack into your leg, hand or head while you’re trying to learn a move. Soooo I asked my husband for some practice poi for my birthday. Hopefully he’ll get them for me then I can practice without turning myself lovely shades of purple.

The LED poi balls I ordered got here and I’ve been having fun playing with them, but I’m realizing after thwacking myself with them repeatedly that maybe the silly looking practice poi balls would be a better idea for learning with. I’ll have to find out if they’re any softer. I’m still going to keep practicing with the ones I’ve got, getting thwacked or not, until I get some practice ones that will leave fewer bruises! :)

I’ve also realized that the leads the LED balls came with are far from satisfactory (they’ve unhooked from the LEDs a couple of times during spinning) so I’ll have to buy some better quality ones for them.

I got to choose what my MIL got me for Xmas this year, so even though there are other things that would be more practical to get, the poi balls looked like the most fun and now I can finally start learning how to spin. I got two different kinds of LED balls as I’d like to learn the basics of spinning before trying fire poi. The effect looks great online, can’t wait to try it once they get here! :)

I went looking for items that teach fire poi and I found some websites that not only sell the supplies but also have tutorial videos for free. Very nice. I’ve got those on my Xmas list, but if I don’t get them for presents I’ll save up and buy them for myself.