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2008
Written by Administrator   
Friday, 04 January 2008

THE DVD IS FINISHED!  

It's Finished! And available for purchase! Yes! Finally! I Know! You can buy it here: manipulation.firestaff.net/buyonline.html or go and check it out on the website: manipulation.firestaff.net.

Buying it direct is best, but other real and online stores you might know and trust will be carrying it soon.  

It's got amazing inspiration sequences on it, that even I go back and watch again... they make me think i have to go out and practise more... It's got spinning tutorials, contact tutorials and doubles tutorials, all starting from absolute beginner. And they're the most well made tutorials I could make.

I have explained it as well as I possibly can in this DVD, especially the contact moves cos I loves them. The tutorials are at least ten times better than anything on this site, even the really good ones I made. 

Featuring slow motion, freeze frame and multiple angles, not just for coolness value, but concocted to show you in the most obvious way how the moves work and YOU have to move to make them work.

I didn't really like having a PayPal donate button on this site, cos it felt so cheesey, nor have I given in to Google AdWords, so if you maybe liked my free tutorials, learnt a lot and wanted to give something back, you could consider purchasing the DVD... And you get something for your money as well!

Alternatively, you can wait for the Intermediate/Advanced DVD's that I'm in the process of making, about Doubles and Contact exclusively. They're going to be my masterpieces, at least, that's my dream. The final say on Contact... and as for Doubles, covering a huge previously uncovered area, but doubles moves so fast... it's not exactly going to be the final say... :D Can't wait for them to be finished... :D

Coming right now to a video site close to you, the first trailer for Staff [Manipulation]!

Google: video.google.com/videoplay

Download: StaffDVDTrailer.mov

YouTube: youtube.com/watch

And new for 2008, A new trailer:

YouTube: Trailer 2

A sample of the tutorials, specifically the Conveyor Belt:

YouTube: Conveyor Belt Tutorial

A rough cut of an inspiration section, specifically, Meg's inspiration section:

YouTube: Meg's Inspiration First Cut

 

Meg



 

SUMMER!

So what's up? It's been a while. I'm just getting back from a holiday in america... again. Is this all I do? Well no, I quit my job, so I'm now some kinda crazy professional fire spinner or something. And when I get home, there will be actually printed Staff Manipulation DVD's waiting for me. Win.

First off thou, some pimping of my friends... Trick Concepts are a fire prop maker working out of Los Angeles. But they're awesome. They have a huge workshop and can weld anything like fiesty welding demons. They even live in the workshop and have a huge barbecue... Oh, but anyway, they make great long lasting tool, especially fire fans, but also very good staffs. They'll be happy to respond to custom requests as well. Since they weld all the fans on site, any kind of staff design you can imagine, they will probably be willing to give it a go. They're a big fan of BIG fire as well, which is no bad thing in a fire prop maker. go to: TrickConcepts.com

Secondly, Flowtoys... again. :D Flowtoys is owned and operated by Sean and Prisna, an amazing couple of people, I think they live in the future cos they're always improveing their designs and giving their customers the benefits on the same day. No waiting.  They have clear grip for their flowstaffs now which makes them much much much better than before. (You might have to ask for the grip, it's very new.)  You can add extra flowmass at the ends of the staff to add extra weight for contact. They're still a bit bendy, but when you're staff is made of polycarbonate, there isn't much you can do about it, and it'll train you to do contact better. For doubles thou, they're staffs are naturally awesome and they even make break down ones! So tell them mcp sent you, they might be extra nice to you, they might be extra nice to me! flowtoys.com

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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