learn poi

I started to attend a Street Performer’s club back at the University of Arizona…. I learned to do a few techniques but haven’t kept up with it, and I’m definately not lighting myself on fire yet…. anyone know of any street performers clubs in Upstate NY?

for making practice poi are still sitting in my closet. But I am on the email list, so I still have a toe in the door…

I’ve been finding it difficult to learn. I’ve been using the videos of playpoi.com. They’ve been helping a lot. I was cruising right along until I got to the 6th video. Crossing poi while spinning them backwards, and doing a backwards 2 beat weave. This has been giving me soo much difficulty. I’ve been stuck on this for like a month. Every time it ends up hitting my leg.

I’ve been doing the tutorials on playpoi.com and finding them really great. I’ve done the first two weeks worth and its made me heaps more confident with my poi and I’ve learned hip reels, crossing same time, 2-beat weaves, the butterfly and the forward 3-beat weave.
I’m absolutely addicted and loving it.

Still not really confident enough to play with fire- but soon hopefully.
I need to buy myself some pants….

My brother got me fire poi for Christmas!
I’ve made a start on his goal.
So much fun!
So exciting!
=D =D

its so neat

Well I’m president of my class so I do a lot of hiring DJs for school dances and whatnot. We had this one DJ we really liked, and they did poi with glowsticks as a sort of light show at the school dances. We all loved it. But unfortunately this DJ moved away, and there are no other DJs that do this. I’ve always admired it, and maybe I can learn it before our next class event.

I’m going to ask for poi chains for christmas :]

Me and one of my friend really want to become fire twirlers but we can’t seem to find any lessons in edmonton, alberta. Can anyone help?

I wanted the kind of poi that have the trailing tails, but didn’t like what i was finding online. So I went to Walmart, picked up some cheap “George” brand stockings that were somewhat like tightly-knit-with-a-bit-of-sheer- fishnet stockings, tennis balls, dye, and that odd fuzzy knit yarn stuff. Put all of them together and you get sock poi with tails. The fuzzy knit yarn makes the tails beautiful (i should get different colors), but I’m concerned about knotting when the poi cross paths.
Fun stuff. Next, I have some cord that I’m dying, and I’ll wrap the tennis balls in cloth and make the type of poi on cords. =)

I’m learning that while practice is good, there is a point where you need to stop and take a break. I became very frustrated because somehow I was doing much worse than when I initially was practicing. Stopped. Next day, came back to them and did better than ever! Moves I could not do consistently became locked in stone. Very nice.
=)