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Location: kansas
Name: Aubrey
Location: Kansas
What is the wing speed of an unladen swallow?.. African or european?
toys: Legos, playdough...not what you're looking for?
Hobbies other than the obvious: Skydiving, motorcycles
Education: in college
Plans for life in general: (i.e. what you want to do when you grow up) - Who wants to grow up?
Marmite, Vegemite, or Nutella?* Nutella...
~ My boyfriend bought me Poi for christmas after I fell in love watching a women do it last year. I'm a skydiver and this is by far the most fun I've had in a while! Looking forward to learning, progressing and hopefully stop hitting my self! Hope to meet you all!!
~Aubrey
All High Dude, Ruler of What You Want
2,280 posts
Location: Trenton, MI, USA
Welcome! Don't use the squirrels as poi, they don't like it. And I'm pretty new, all I can wish is that you learn as quick as I have, as I seem to be knocking down everything in my path, except for things with isolations are taking me a while. If you want to know what to learn early on, there's a great post in either the help or beginner moves section about exactly that. Where me and some other guy pretty much listed damn near everything that is good to learn
When they say toys I'm pretty sure they mean skill toys (poi, staff, ect.)I myself fell in love with poi, I went to Germany this summer and my exchange student did fire poi and firebreathing for us. He also had fire fans, but I never got to see it
Also, I would suggest looking at Nick Woolsey's Beginner Series on PlayPoi.com
I recently did my first burn and I can tell you, it is a great thing and I hope you learn enough first to really have fun with it
The only luck is bad luck.
Shut up before I stall my poi up your ass
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
Welcome to HoP!
Marmite is better btw....
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
DerekJF85
101 posts
Location: Garland, TX, USA
YO!
"Dream as you will live forever, and live as you will die today"
James Dean
1,264 posts
Location: Lawrence, KS
LEGOS!!!! WELCOME fellow Kansas person!
Hope you progress well with poi. Practice makes perfect and Detroit's right, Nick's videos are helpful if your looking for tips. The majority of people here are crazy. Enjoy meeting people and have a hot time!
Never take candy from strangers...... But popcorn is okay!
stranger
8 posts
Location: USA
If it wasnt for the wind, fire poi while sky diving would be awesome lol. Sorta new too. All i can say is the library here at HoP is awesome. follow them and you will progress fast!
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
Except that parachute fabric melts....
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
1,264 posts
Location: Lawrence, KS
Haha thatd be a sucky way to die if you werent planning it
Never take candy from strangers...... But popcorn is okay!
6 posts
Location: kansas
I"m thinking a night jump with the floresent balls... It shall happen
As for a sucky way to die? I'd be kinda proud to go out spinning fire while hurling my self at the ground, hard to beat that thanks for the tips!! 1,264 posts
Location: Lawrence, KS
well yeah if you plan on dying that way its a cool way to die. But if your just spinning fire and expect to land safely and your parachute becomes melted flaming goo, then I'd be kind of bummed.
Never take candy from strangers...... But popcorn is okay!
Fire Spinner Exarch
514 posts
Location: New Orleans, LA United States, USA
Awesome, welcome to HoP! Cool, you're from Kansas. I'm currently in Oklahoma right now. Huh, who would have thought Kansas would make a good place to do a lot of skydiving. Well it is kind of flat in some areas. ;p
"Are you sure it's safe to drink bleach?"
"Yes, bleach is 90% water, we are 90% water, therefore: we are bleach."
-Nathan Explosion, Metalocalypse
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
I suppose base jumping is a little more difficult?
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
6 posts
Location: kansas
I wouldn't say more difficult, it's a bit more dangerous. Such is life...
@Brenon- Kansas kinda sucks so we try to make it more intertaining. You're from Oklahoma, i'm sure you understand
1,264 posts
Location: Lawrence, KS
She's completely right on the Kansas sucks part Never take candy from strangers...... But popcorn is okay!
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
Originally Posted By: kstateskydiverI wouldn't say more difficult, it's a bit more dangerous. Such is life...
@Brenon- Kansas kinda sucks so we try to make it more intertaining. You're from Oklahoma, i'm sure you understand
Sorry, I meant that it was more difficult due to being flat. Was probably not clear, and now I spoiled the joke by explaining. :'(
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
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