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Location: Melbourne
I'm hoping to find people to learn with/from! Please help!!
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172 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Anyone in Melbourne? Lots.
Got to the gatherings section, and you'll find two major nights.
Wednesday nights at Edinburgh gardens in North Fitzroy start at about 9 pm. There's alway more people there, however I believe that it's more a show-off night.
Sunday nights at Alexandra gardens opposite the arts centre start at 7 pm. Although most people dont get there till after 8. I'm a big biased because I organised this night, however I think there is more scope for teaching/learning because it starts while there is some light.
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Location: Gold Coast
Hey Sheridan,
Its good to see we have more new pplz getting into the sport(fire spinning is so a sport!!!). Only a year a and bit ago i was in the same situation as you were. I didnt know anyone in the firey world, and wanted to learn as much as i possibly could. I would suggest that you try to get down there at about 7pm at Alexandra Gardens on Sunday nights because there are some really amazing people down there. I used to go down and get there early, just trying new stuff out without fire. Then i met this New Zealand guy who really showed me the ropes. He showed me most of the basics and sent me home with a few little tasks.
We got talking and he found out i used to do gymnastics, so he suggested that i mix them together.
Soz, i kinda rambled on there. So my point is, get there earlier and try to seem really keen. They love to teach spinning to people who really want to learn.
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Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
Huzzah for sundays! i'll be there this coming one after seeing cirque!
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172 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
I shall see you there!!
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Geez, I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
1,328 posts
Location: Bendigo, Vic, Australia
ooh... I really want to go, I am only a few hours north of Melbourne, however I dont have any transport to get there
water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia
hey sheridan, im in melbourne. but u already knew that, come one sunday. its a fun night out, and u get hugs
cyas soon,
cheers, pete
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
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13 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Hey people! Im going to be moving to melbourne from tassie in a few weeks... Already got friends in on the sunday night so I'll probably see some of yas on the 15th of may!
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water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia
hi hardy, and an early welcome to melbourne.
hope to see u on the 15th,
wednesdays are also very big, search "workshops in melbourne" without the """ for it,
cheers, pete
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
cheers. hadnt heard of wednesdays but i'm always up 4 a twirl
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6,978 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
wenesdays are nice and boogeyworthy
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Location: Aus, Melbourn,, Doncaster
is it on 2night,, in da city ??? i might rock up and check it out if its on
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926 posts
Location: over yonder, New Zealand
hey hey, just arrived in melbourne, been wandering about australia for a few months now, just got my stick back and gonna head down on sunday, especially if theres folk willing to teach..... whats with this rain? i thought australia didnt have such a thing!
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
heyhey! welcome to melbourne!
haha ah yes been rather a bit of rain recently eh? about a week or 2 ago it was pretty hot, and yesterday was 35 degrees i think. well u should get used to it, i personally love the erratic weather here, cept when i'm freezing waiting for the tram 
from the weather report, i gather its gonna be a bit warmer by sunday..27 degrees so far. but hey, when have weather reports been accurate?
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926 posts
Location: over yonder, New Zealand
hey thanks!
we went down to alexandra gardens last night but couldnt see anyone....its a smallish park just next to the tram line to boxhill....is that the one?? was all good because we still had a muckabout and gave me a chance to try out some things... but i wanted to say hello to folks! ah well, mebbes see you wednesday...... on spam robots - "Burn the robot! Melt him down, and then we can make lots and lots of money from his shiiiny juices!"
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QuackerJack
1,927 posts
Location: over your left shoulder, Australia
Uhoh... I think you may have gone to the wrong park. It's a bit confusing as there are both the Alexandra and Alexandria gardens in Melbourne.
Sunday nights are held in the city, opposite the arts centre, a short walk from Flinders Street station. If you're a little confused still (as i'm terrible at giving directions) pm me, and I'll give you my mobile number and meet you on a train.
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water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia
also, our gardens are actually the queen victoria gardens
everyones just too lazy to get used to it 
cheers, pete
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
*proud owner of the very cute fire_spinning_angel, birgit and neon shaolin*
lurking like a ninja with no camouflage..
926 posts
Location: over yonder, New Zealand
guys im really gutted
ive had to come back to scotland for a while so no chance of meeting up now, but i shall return to melbourne when everything here is all good and i will know where im going then!! on spam robots - "Burn the robot! Melt him down, and then we can make lots and lots of money from his shiiiny juices!"
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Just wanted to say hi...I'm moving back to Melbourne in about 2 months so I'll definitely be popping in at the Sunday and Wednesday nights...looking forward to it.
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Location: Behind you. With Jam
Currently in the UK, thinking (seriously this time) about coming to Australia for about a year this coming september
Will probably be based in Sydney as I relatives there who can (hopefully) put me up (or put up for me) for a few weeks before I settle on where I wanna stay. And how I'm gonna get to where I wanna go.
I'll try and ply my freelance design/illustration trade around the area too.
So the question is... how often do people meet about Sydney/Melbourne and do they plan regular trips into the outback?
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water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia
melbourne has several weekly gatherings, most of them simple to get to via public transport.
sydney (when i last checked) isnt so regular, but i may be wrong.
hmm, im still yet to go to the outback, unless you mean out back, in my backyard, i was there earlier today
cheers, pete
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
*proud owner of the very cute fire_spinning_angel, birgit and neon shaolin*
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4,030 posts
Location: Bali, Australia
The outback?
Well, to be honest Ozpeople tend to stick to their comfortable coastal cities and never go outback at all. More likely to go to Thailand than a few hundred miles inland. The distances are large (Melbourne to Brisbane is further than, say, London to Madrid...) But it is actually quite easy to get around. Fly, get on a train or a coach or preferably buy a car. There's any number of adventure tours, 4WD trips etc ... The place is fully equipped for every sort of tourist/visitor. No worries mate!
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Location: Behind you. With Jam
cheers for the responses anyway...
So looking forward to coming over there. Might be beneficial to my mental health as I seem to be an avid SAD sufferer... the Australian weather would be a nice place to escape the godawful bleakness of British winter..
"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock
old man fire
27 posts
Location: Seymour, Victoria, Australia
wednesday nights ROCK. it isn't a show-off time! it's just a social gathering for hippies and we happen to twirl there. spectators are not welcome, so if people come to it, they have to either twirl or socialise.
between the confests, while the weather is warm, there are usually drummers. there are always friendly faces.
About the only thing that stops edinburgh gardens from burning on wednesday nights is weather. if it's too cold for twirling clothing, or too windy. rain doesn't always stop us because there is a gazebo, but it does occasionally.
usually get peaks of one or two hundred people in january, dropping off to maybe half a dozen around the middle of winter when pretty much only the hippies and the hardcores go (*points at bender*) (*waits for bender to point back*)
wednesday night is, after all, the hippies' saturday
the hippie week runs like this .. wednesday is the first day .. or saturday rather .. then the thursday is a sunday to recover from the night before. The friday is spent driving to whichever piece of desolation where someone has put a sound system, satuday and sunday spent pounding the earth flat and making sure grass will NEVER grow there again. Mondays are spent driving home or recovering, or both .. and tuesday is the working week.
do you see why hippies are so poor? they can only work one day a week! and so dirty? they spend half the week away from the shower at home!
burn 'em all
QuackerJack
1,927 posts
Location: over your left shoulder, Australia
Uhhh.. Why some many responses to posts over a year old?
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