Five and a half years after starting MoM, we have; 1 book, 2 weddings, several MoM workshops, and over 1 000 000 unique visitors (according to our stats counter).
And this is MoM’s 1000th blog post.
Phew.
Thanks for reading, and here’s to the next 5 years.
The above image is from theFlickr acrylic balls pool. by Maido of Japan.
Smiles
Drew
YouTube – Thomas Yuta EJC 2010 Fire Gala.
Thomas & Yuta rocking Poi at EJC 2010 Fire Gala
It’s been great to watch Poi really develop over the last 10-15 years. The skill level, movement and choreography being shown in the top performances nowadays is superb. 
Poi + Hoop = poi-style hooping Poop
Fellow Bristolian and all round encyclopedia of miscellaneous manipulations Mr Bags sent us though his latest explorations with hoops.
Some idea’s for hoopers that are well worth a look.
Edited with Cinelerra on Ubuntu – open source rules! (Most of MoM are on Ubuntu).
Video made by Luminous Fractal (how cool is that. He should have been on stage!!)
Good stuff all around, some great manipulators on stage in this teaser clip from the 2010 Madskillz Gala show.
Some ridiculous partner poi from Greg Maldonado and Margaret Meloan of Performing Pair.
If you like this then check out the new Partner Poi DVD from Vulcan DVDs
My man, Daniel Gunthorpe shows off all his research on poi manipulation in one take. (And then adds some more on the end.) He’s studying at Circoarts in NZ, and he is also a bit good at triple contact staff. Can’t wait to blog that.
He’s all about the parallel same-time!
Don’t watch the clip above! go to youtube and watch it at 720p or fullscreen!
A long-awaited video from Costa Rica featuring Burning Dan, Alien Jon, Baz, and Nick Playpoi spinning to the music of Reza Moosavi. Amazingly high quality cinematography and video editing skills by Matthew Boyd 
If Baraka were a poi video, it would look like this
Sa is an italian poi manipulator. He’s 20 and started his juggling path all alone only 3 years ago; after meeting Ronan he has decided to study and find new poi and contact manipulation forms. He lives in Milan.
This is his youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Santiagopoi
if you want to write to Sa:
xcomeics at hotmail . it
Glad to see more researchers with poi.
This is a nicely put together small documentary that I would like to see as a large one on object manipulation in general. It features interviews with a few spinners and jugglers from the San Francisco Bay Area of California, on their favorite subject of fire and object manipulation.
I especially like Jordan’s realization about his life. : )
Everyone at the Vulcan wishing you a merry Christmas from “scenic” East Oakland, California. Featuring Brian Thompson and Matt McCorkle of Code RED: Circus Conspiracy, who you may know from a previous post on MoM for their Isolation Hoop Report of January 2009. This is the third video of the series to say happy holidays, made by Noel Yee featured in his Christmas Partner poi video. (more…)
Cyrille Humen shows off his research with one and two poi. Contact poi, juggling and manipulation. A perfect video for the Ministry.
