A Day At The Museum - Armin Zabba

Not a fan of poi? Then check out this video and be prepared to change your mind.

Workshops Are GO!

As reported in the last post the Autumn workshops are starting to be organised. Here is a list of the 3 already booked. They start from next Thursday.

19th September 2013 - Lynne will be running a beginners butterfly moves poi workshop. If you have poi, bring them with you. If not, we have a few pairs in the equipment cupboard you can borrow. It will start at 8pm.

 26th September 2013 - Stephen H is offering a devilstick workshop that will cover a range of abilities, so come along and find out what you can learn. We have some devil/flower sticks in the club but if you have your own please bring it with you.

3rd October 2013 - Do you want to play some clowning games? Pete will be running a clowning workshop this evening. All you need to bring is yourself and a willingness to join in.

We have had more offers for hoop, contact ball, unicycle, stilts and card tricks workshops and we will be scheduling those to run through October and November.

If you have a workshop you would like to run or there is a skill you would like to learn, let us know and we will try to organise them.

Hope to see you soon!

Poi Workshop

This week, at about 8pm, at the ENI regular Thursday night club meeting I will be running a poi workshop. I will start at the very beginning, so if you have never spun poi before I will get you started on the journey of learning the joys of having balls in socks flying in patterns around your body. If you already know a few moves we can work on moving you forward with something new. If you have your own poi, please bring them with you, although it is probably best not to use tail poi when learning. If you do not have any, there will be some at the hall you can borrow for the class.

I hope to see you there!

The club will be running and open to people that do not wish to poi too, 7-10pm Alltwen Community hall Dyffryn Road, Alltwen, Pontardawe Swansea, SA8 3BX.

Calendar Updates.

The Calendar has been updated with the latest workshops that people are offering to teach. We have a hat manipulation workshop with Peter D on 24th Jan where you will be able to learn moves with 1-3 hats. On the 7th Feb Lynne will be introducing you to poi and the joys of spinning them around your body.

On the 17th Jan, we are going to try something a little different. We are going to set up Speed Ball Dating. I can hear a few of you saying "Errrrm...What?". Speed Ball Dating is like speed dating, but instead of chatting about each other and what you have in common, you will teach each other a juggling pattern. It doesn't matter if you are a beginner juggler, the aim of the game isn't just to learn new things, it is to learn how to teach someone else what you know, so if you only know how to juggle a basic 3 ball cascade it doesn't matter, you can explain to the other person how to do that, giving them tips and hints on what helped you to learn to do it. Doing this helps you to understand how you learn and teaches the other person how to be a better teacher themselves. We will give you 5 mins to do that and then ask you to move on to the next person. You can teach the next person the same pattern if you like, or try and teach the new move you have just learned, or something totally different. Hopefully by the end of the game everyone will have gained some new patterns to practice and have learned a whole lot more about how to teach other people. Huzzah for skill swapping!

Poi inspiration from the fabulous Yuta

In my opinion Yuta is one of the best poi spinners in the world. He is so precise in his movements as can be seen in this video.



This long exposure photo display even better his precision of motion. The pattern is an anti spin 6 petals flower.

If you want to see more of his spinning abilities, check out his You Tube channel.

More Inspiration

This video is full of wild moves. Poi, fans, meteors, hats, staff... loads of fabulous stuff. Check it out!



Some of the moves will confuzzle you... but don't let that worry you just let your jaw drop and enjoy them.