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Sh*t Spinners Say

Drew — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:09:43 +0000

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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?”

No Sweat – Contact Staff – Kev-Mic-Jon-Oli

Drew — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:37:43 +0000

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contact staff in Brussels 2
Starring: Jon Crott, Olivier van itterbeeck, Michael Tono and Kevin Arleri ( yes… the brother of Dimitri Arleri)
Cinetagraphy by Francois Dubois and Editing by Ladislas.
Super skills, super filming, super editing. WoW.
Thanks to EVERYONE who sent this to us and posted it on “suggest a link” especially Maelle.

Tomás Di Tomaso – Colegiales

mcp — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:15:38 +0000

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Original full quality video here: On Vimeo.

Whaaaaa! Super nice style, super nice devilsticking. I don’t know much about devilstick, but I like what I see!

Tomas Di Tomaso has made this beautiful video. I said some otherstuff that wasn’t true before. I got things wrong. But Drew is decorating his bathroom so I guess I can do what I like. Ha ha!

Tomas is from Argentina, and has a website here: Tomasditomaso.com.ar (edited to update url)

Annetta Lucero’s Twirling Demo Reel

mcp — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:20:03 +0000

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Annetta Lucero, is there a better baton twirler? I don’t think so.

Dragonstaff Promo – Allstaffs Practice

Ed — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:10:24 +0000

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Valerie sent me this video. Josh, Valerie and Antti playing with heavy sticks.

I love the staff spinning ideas coming out of these guys. Valerie was also at the infamous berlin workshops, and I can see a massive change in her stylin’. Love it.

Double Staff Manipulation Trailer

mcp — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:29:00 +0000

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Trailer for my double staff DVD. Feel a bit weird about posting it here but Ryan let me so I hope it’s okay.

Contact Staff in Brussels

mcp — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:47:34 +0000

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A french guy goes to Brussels and films some awesome contact staff and this is the result. Giant bunch of win. Good to see the monkey style and Rodney Mullen style moves coming into contact staff there…. Also very nice to see tricks done well with body awareness. Win.

El Hombre – Compilation

Drew — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:59:17 +0000

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YouTube – El Hombre.
Great Skills compilation video. Hey, I recognise one of those guys from somewhere.
Thanks to Jon for the link.
Previous video from Esteven – C.A.P.

Kyle Mclean – Garden Domes – Staff Manipulation

Drew — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:32:36 +0000

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Kyle Mclean of Everyone is Happy Productions shows his awesome style with multiple staffs in Garden Domes, his smooth flow, deservedly won Home of Poi’s, CoL competition last year.
Love the video and the skills, thanks for posting it Kyle.
Enjoy, Drew

5 years, 1000 posts, 1 000 000 views

Drew — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:43:03 +0000

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