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2008
Written by Administrator   
Friday, 04 January 2008

It's 2008! 

So what on earth is going on?


Well, I still haven't managed to get around to making some new tutorials,  due to the ever present threat of making a DVD. Illness over the new year holidays forced delays. Sorry about that. The illness didn't quite ruin my holiday, but it did have a damn good try. :s

The results of the Global Contact Staff Video Project are up... yays! Maybe some extra results to come in from fenfire, bluecat, meast, evivva (Italy) and anybody else who decides that 1 month late is a good time to submit footage... le sigh! ;) The finished parts of the video aren't up yet on LAB Reports or the VIDEOs part of the site... but maybe soon...

I'm making a tutorial DVD on staff manipulation, it's going well, but it's a grind to get the editing done to make it the best possible tutorials we could make. But we'll know better next time, and it'll be a swifter process for the next two DVD's. So expect it sometime this first quarter. I'd rather take the time to get it done right, than do it badly and quickly. There will be a small website about the DVD up soon with more infos.


So what's this site about then? Spinning, Contact and Throwing staffs... staff manipulation of many different kinds. You can see on the menu on the left, there are many different categories with 'tutorials' (Sometimes just demonstrations) of moves in them.


There are also articles about staff manipulation. Even an almost book about contact staff. So if you wanna read abouts stuff, go there.


But there isn't just my site on the whole wide web, there are also others with staff tutorials. You'll find them in the links section, and linked too, in the three beginner guides... beginner spinning, beginner contact and beginner doubles. These guides will show you a simple path to beginning to spin staff, using tutorials from far and wide, and will maybe explain any questions you have.


Finally, if you have a burning desire to write a guide to a move, or want to compile a list of staff performances on youtube, or want to discuss a point of theory about staff manipulation, there is the forum, or even better you can write an article and submit it to be part of the site. That's what the submit content button is about in the 'MORE' section of the menu. (Only there if your registered - and actually really working now) I don't put google adwords or any advertising on the site, nor particularly try and make any money off it, so it would warm the little muscles of my heart to have people submit their own content and teach the world a little bit more about staff. :D

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Written by Meghan Claire Pike   
Thursday, 23 November 2006

DVD

So I'm making a staff tutorial DVD, teaching the basics of spinning, contact and doubles... with another two DVD with more advanced movements in them later on. :D

Here's the trailer...

Google:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=7424846652645300031

Download: 

http://videos.tepookatoys.com/media/StaffDVDTrailer.mov

Youtube: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf11I23JiAg

 

and don't forget the... Global Contact Staff Video Project

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LAB Reports

L.A.B. Reports

Definitive List:::: http://lab.firestaff.net

 

news

NEWS!

 

So I changed the site... AGAIN. I like this one thou, so it should stay for a while. Soon I will be adding in more components like a community component and properly integrating the forum into the website. Spherculism and Playpoi are looking swanky so I figured I'd best try and keep up...

Comments! The ability to comment on articles and such has been added. Only for registered users however.

Creative Commons.
The entire video contents of this website is now licensed under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution Share A-Like 2.5 license. (Where I have the right to.) Forinstance, the video images of me are under this license, the copyright music I sometimes use over the top is not however.
This license means that if you use my stuff, it can't be for a commercial reason, you have to attribute it to me, and provide your new content to be shared like I have. BUT you DON'T have to ask my permission or even tell me. Cunning. See: Creative Commons: 

 

Creative Commons License


Donate button. In light of the above, and that I want to buy a cool product to add tags to all my pages to facilitate easier searching... and to cover hosting costs, I have a donate button. If I get enough or any donations. I will be personally very happy. The meagre profits from t-shirt sales also get plowed back into the website.

Delicious. Delicious is cool. It's a bookmarking website with tags that allows you to search through what other people have tagged as 'firestaff' or 'spinning'. All my links are up on their now too... plus a bunch of others I only just found... thanks to delicious. Or you can check out my links.

Google fire spinning custom search. A custom google search engine for fire spinning and related stuff, equipment sellers, performers, discussion forums and the like. Soon, I'll also consider starting an object manipulation custom search... Feel free to add to it.

 

tutorials

Contact Tutorial Videos

A list of videos that were specifically made to teach you a movement without regard to any written text. So you just watch and go! Yay!


This list represents what I consider 'base' contact movements. Most other moves are combinations of these moves, variations, or these movements transfered to a different plane. These moves can be broken down into their component parts, but the way I present them here is as symmetrical (hopefully) movements. So for instance you can end a SNES with a vertical steve arm roll, but you'd break the symmetry of the SNES, so I don't present that here.

They are in rough order of difficulty and impressiveness. It all depends on how you learn thou.

Hand Wraps

Neck Wraps

Body Part Spins

Shoulder Wraps

Fishtails

Halo Roll

Conveyor Belt

Angel Roll

The Pivot

SNES

Halo 360

Steve

Jesus

Matrix

 

BM

Burning Man 

Having been to burning man and various other festivals over the past year, one thing has really struck me, all of the people thanking me for the website.

Particularly in the harsh desert of black rock city, many many people were happy to meet me and see me spin and thanked me for my website and tutorials. It was touching, (and not just in a hippy way.) I'd never really stopped before and thought that anyone actually used my site that much... It was an odd feeling. It still feels like way back when I first started it with the crappy and non-crappy move sections. It doesn't seem much more organised than that in my mind... But I guess it still makes a big difference for people learning. Thanks god for moves shown in sunlight and slow motion!  

I'm pretty sure the americans must have been surprised that I knew jed and julian. Two pretty much random non-american spinners and I know them both. And hugged them and such like. It made me think about how many good and great spinners I've met over the course of the last three years. More than anything I feel like I know a major proportion of the best staffers in the world. (thou I haven't seen some of them for a while, thou I have met some of their mums.) Which is a great feeling. I can't express the wonder of it. And most of it due to the website.

So what's the upshot of all of this? Well after so much thanks, it behooves me to make the website a better learning resource. And that's what I intend to do... It's the only thing I can think of to thank the people that use the website. I'm glad you'll all out there and using it. I'm glad it's a good resource. It makes me happy to know you're all out there. :D