Take Ronan, one of the most talented spinner I’ve ever seen, and an amazing editing and you’ll have this fantastic vid. Images manipulation…and very good spinning

enjoy!

We used to have a “suggest a link” page – Put if fell off the site in one of the updates last year, – So we’ve put it back (under manipulation links). Meantime some people have e-mailed us links, thank you. We’re having a tidy up and posting a few:
* 4 person interactive poi spinning… – link from Splinter on .org thanks.
* Porte à Porte – combines Cigar boxes with digital Manipulation – Thanks to Pich for the Link.
* Nata Galkina. Foot Juggling. Antipoden. Антипод – thanks to Marco Paoletti for the link.
* Nata Galkina (Feet-Füße-Ноги) Unusual love story. – Also sent by Marco.
Mr. Boul Juggling – Some contact, some Baffoonery in a big ball.

You could be forgiven for not knowing that the Ministry just had one of its biggest, and most successful events, a week long workshop in the Katakomb, Berlin. as there has been no write up on here. Some news leaking out on .org. Hopefully if we drop a few hints, Ed will post a longer write up about it.

A very nice medley video by our friend Cyrille, from France nice work on batons, acrylics and poi.
Caméra: D.Menza ; Performer: Cyrille

Thanks for sharing, dude!

Just as you were ready to declare the DVD dead, along with their free Lessons, Playpoi have launched a new Poi DVD Adventures in Poi and an awesome “The Making Of” trailer to go along with it.
Buy it from playpoi $20USD.

Playpoi have launched a complete beginner poi series, for free!
Nick and co over at playpoi.com are launching an entire series of beginner poi videos. Above is an example from week-one. There are about 50 videos in total. arranged in 5 weeks:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5

A very nice vid by my friend Johnny Kadafi, from Switzerland. He’s studying at Dimitri’s school. hugs from Italy, Johnny!

enjoy

Montage of skills from the 2008 Contact Juggling Convention in France.

Swing dans la garrigue
A beautiful club swinging video by Valery from France. It’s filmed in some ruins the south of France. Valery does club manipulation, club swinging, a little bit of juggling and dual club fishtails(6:40). You should try and spot the magically reappearing dreadlocks.

Alternative: Download Version.

Taken inside the catacombs of abandoned communist mines ….

Photographs by Evgeny Chibilev, from the times of Stalin’s Gulags.

Yep – as regular MoM commenter MCP points out – we are posting ancient stuff. We found that we have over 150 half written drafts, time for some spring cleaning.

The number one, one-hit wonder kiwi music video, of all times.

Traditional Maori poi in a poptastic 80′s style, complete with white glove bodypopping and roller skating.
You want details?

Youtube Link

I have three main influences in my poi spinning/manipulation. They are; Boogaloo Dance, Rob Thorburn, and Ronan McLoughlin.

Here we get to see two of them in one video! and as an added bonus, the gorgeous Maelle from France joins Rob and Ronan in Cork after the circus festival Ireland for some spinning fun. Clean and beautiful patterns from Maelle, the mind Boggling trickery we’ve come to expect from Rob, and, well… Ronan.

And yes, Ronan is really doing that with the poi. You should have seen his show in Berlin…

Manfred Hanke – Jongleur

We met Manne at the CJC in Rennes. Well, I didn’t, I met him a week later.

We think he rocks. With the way that he is combining juggling and breakdance, this guy is definitely one to watch.