Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Following the “Sh*t X say” meme, this Tongue in cheek video is poking fun at Spinners, from the Vulcan crew of…err spinners.
Brilliant.
“Do it again, only less sh*t.”
We’ll add: “Faster with less control.” “Do you know G?”, “Can you do that Anti-spin?” is the new, “Can you do that isolated?” is the new, “Can you do that BTB?”
So who is going to make “Sh*t contact jugglers say?”
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
The POICLOCK! Brought to you by Yuta, the epic poi spinner, poicommunity.com and other people of awesome whom I know not.
Check it out in HUGE format on this page: poicommunity.com/poiclock/
POICLOCK was inspired by UNIQLO’s uniqlock which is a sort of fashion show and contemporary dance clock.
It’s pretty sweet, if you embed the POICLOCK on your page (or the WORLD POI CLOCK when it arrives) you get the time and random awesome poi videos and it links back to Yuta’s site and you can view it on a map along with everyone else who has embedded the POICLOCK and then click chase poiclocks all over the world! Sweet.
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Teachings on Right Practice by Shunryu Suzuki, as compiled in “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind“, read by Peter Coyote: Further chapters on Posture, Breathing, Control, Mind Weeds, The Marrow of Zen, Bowing and Nothing Special.
With thanks to Trurl on MeFi
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Saturday, November 12th, 2011
Some poi contact/manip/juggling research by our friend Cyrille. Simply amazingly beautiful.
thanks for watching!
Posted in Bodyrolling, Contact Juggling, Dance, Miscelaneous Manip, Music, Poi, The Best Skills | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Meg made this video for Keith a while ago and it should have been up here a lot sooner…
Keith just showed up at The Vulcan today before the Firedrums Festival in Northern California on May 19th-22nd to teach poi workshops.
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Partner poi training video from the wonderful Loooop. Very nice folk, who have a cute act involving underpants, well worth seeing live if you get a chance.
We must have watched this about 20 times now, it definitely deserves a wider audience.
Thank you, François, Hanna, Tina & Thomas.
Smiles Drew
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Monday, March 7th, 2011
Santiago from Italy is one of the people in poi reminding me how far poi has come.
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Really good ideas, tricks and manipulation combinations with poi by my friend Cyrille.
Filmed in Geneva, October 2010.
thanks for sharing your research, Cyrille!
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
New contact poi tricks from Japan.
He’s got moves and this is his first poi video : )
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

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
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

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.
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010

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).
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