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