Chasing the Sun

[watervole]

If you stop doing poi, becasue it's been winter and there isn't room to practice indoors, then it's amazing how long it can take you to catch up again. I've been relearning my tricks one by one the last couple of weeks and I've finally hit the point where I stopped last year. I can do 'chasing the sun' once more. It's a trick that involves swinging both poi clockwise in front of you and then both of them behind you going the same way. Unless you get the timing exactly right, the strings tangle very quickly.

Poi are good for stress. You have to concentrate hard on the balls, as the moment you don't, you get whacked by a fast-flying poi. (Women have one serious advantage when it comes to doing poi. Getting whacked by a ball in the balls is seriously painful - or so I'm told by exalted_mugwump...

Comments

[sugoll.livejournal.com]

He's not wrong. And not only is it painful - it's embarrassing. I mean, you're the one swinging the poi, so there's only yourself to blame...

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of this video (http://www.stupidvideos.us/video/stupid/38867.3210285764.wmv) (with obviously fake sound effects) of a guy showing off with nunchaku.