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Location: Carbondale, IL, USA
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Location: Carbondale, IL, USA
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Today was my FIRST DAY spinning real true blue poi!
So my shipment arrived from New Zeland's HoP today (I live in the Midwest of the US of A) and I was THRILLED! I quickly opened it up, took some trips around town and soon had kerosine, additional chains, a bag to hold all my poi stuff in, and other stuffins. My shipment itself contained two fire monkey's fists sets, two LED poi heads, and the COL2/Art of Poi DVD. After getting all my gear assembled I sat down in my tiny (very tiny) apparement and turned on the DVD and started my lessons. I easially picked up the early stuff (Forward, Backward, Split) and started learning the butterfly and soon found that my appt was to small. So I left the humble settings of my abode and went to the wilderness of the outside!
After about 1/2 an hour of pratice with unlit fire poi I had the butterfly down, the giant butterfly down, and was learning the alternate butterfly. I sadly had to go to a meeting so I left.
Just a few moments ago I got back and went outside my appt complex. It was dark now and I wanted to light up my fire poi badly, so I did. I did the maneuvers I was comfortable with and didn't mess up once! (yay!) I also did some more pratice with my LED poi after I was done playing with the fire ones and overall played outside for about an hour before I just now came back in.
I am thrilled and overjoyed. This is truely an art that sings to me and I enjoy throughly. Thank you guys for being here and for sharing this wonderful gift to the world.
Today was my FIRST DAY spinning real true blue poi!
So my shipment arrived from New Zeland's HoP today (I live in the Midwest of the US of A) and I was THRILLED! I quickly opened it up, took some trips around town and soon had kerosine, additional chains, a bag to hold all my poi stuff in, and other stuffins. My shipment itself contained two fire monkey's fists sets, two LED poi heads, and the COL2/Art of Poi DVD. After getting all my gear assembled I sat down in my tiny (very tiny) apparement and turned on the DVD and started my lessons. I easially picked up the early stuff (Forward, Backward, Split) and started learning the butterfly and soon found that my appt was to small. So I left the humble settings of my abode and went to the wilderness of the outside!
After about 1/2 an hour of pratice with unlit fire poi I had the butterfly down, the giant butterfly down, and was learning the alternate butterfly. I sadly had to go to a meeting so I left.
Just a few moments ago I got back and went outside my appt complex. It was dark now and I wanted to light up my fire poi badly, so I did. I did the maneuvers I was comfortable with and didn't mess up once! (yay!) I also did some more pratice with my LED poi after I was done playing with the fire ones and overall played outside for about an hour before I just now came back in.
I am thrilled and overjoyed. This is truely an art that sings to me and I enjoy throughly. Thank you guys for being here and for sharing this wonderful gift to the world.
But I don't want to go among mad people, Alice remarked.
Oh, you can't help that, said the Cheshire Cat: we're all mad here.
--Alice in Wonderland
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