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Login/Join to ParticipatePooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
So, it's coming up to christmas and I realised last night that this truly is the season of poi. Sure, it's hard to spin because it's so cold, and it's wet and miserable all the time, but if you've got to be outside you couldn't be better equipped for a nice improv poi session.
For instance, last night in a gig queue we held gloves by the fingers and did some basic moves. I even almost learnt the inwards overhead butterfly! And we made a valliant effort at turning a scarf into meteors.
So don't despair. I reckon santa hats would be pretty damn good, and extra socks for keeping your feet warm caould quite easily have gloves stuffed down them to make some nice spinning accessories.
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
Just don't spin fire with santa hats or beards on...that would be very very bad.
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Hey, it'd keep you warm..
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
HoP is teh suxor.
425 posts
Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
that nylon/polyester that santa hats and beards are made of also melts nicely to your skin when it catchs fire.
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
There you go - insulation for next year!
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
HoP is teh suxor.
425 posts
Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
or scars for next year
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
1,489 posts
Location: state of confusion
hey at least you could always ask for skin grafs for christmas.....
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac
i tried spinning (non-firey) with reindeer antlers on and i got in a bit of a tangle....
incidentally, that was sometime around summer...
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Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Curioser and curioser..
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
Pink tree baubles tied to tinsel work. I did that when we were putting up the trees at work.
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Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Excellent idea Skul! I wonder if anyone has experience of baubles on the end of strings of Christmas lights..?
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac
i think just strings of fairy lights would work, tie a few in the end in a knot for weight and.... well, stand near a socket i guess.... then spinny spin! voila, lots of ickle light trails!!
then for the staffers ... how about trimming back a christmas tree in the middle and twirling that...?
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Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
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well, stand near a socket i guess.... then spinny spin! voila, lots of ickle light trails!!
I'm not sure I like the idea of mains-powered spinning.. but hey, it's Christmas! Nothing bad's gonna happen!
*WARNING - I am an idiot*
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac
i'm not sure you'd have a choice with fairy lights... but methinks it's safer than mince pies.
isn't christmas day like the busiest time for casualty departments? i think there's a lot of people who miss the turkey whilst trying to carve it, or get too drunk and pop a champagne cork in their eye, choke on aforementioned mince pies, that kind of thing... SO many potential accidents!
you could wear rubber wellies to minimise electrocution...
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Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Not to mention those stuck in chimneys. Shocking.
You can actually get fairy lights with batteries.. my lady has some. I shall invesigate.
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
enthusiast
352 posts
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Damn, someone beat me to it. I just went and tried my battery powered ones when I saw the bit about fairy lights. You need to shorten them quite a bit though because they have quite long flexes (sp?) and hold the bit with the batteries in so the cords don't get too damaged.
May have to go out once it's dark and try them properly
One day i'll learn to resist gravity...
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,276 posts
Location: Oxfordshire/Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Mint_Sauce had some real pretty xmas lights poi at Sheffield! xxx
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Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Written by: Katrina
You need to shorten them quite a bit though because they have quite long flexes (sp?) and hold the bit with the batteries in so the cords don't get too damaged.
Double them up, and tie your beight at the bottom of each to keep them together.
This could be quite cool, actually. Bonus points for anyone who posts trails!
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
Two santa hats make surprisingly good poi.
I found that out at last year's santacon.
Just hold the top and spin.
[It's doesn't ALWAYS have to be about the fire.]
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland
says the man who set fire to a plate
Love is the law.
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
I didn't say it's NEVER about the fire either.
It's SOMETIMES about the fire.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
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