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

L.A.B. Reports

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

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 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 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

language

English:

I have noticed that some people come here from websites written in french or italian or other languages. I unfortunately can't speak or write in these languages, so I have written this intro for you. It was translated by google, which is not ideal.

I have an index of all the videos on this site. It is here: film index

This will allow you to access all the videos without using the English navigation.

I hope soon to make the site appear in many languages, and to let users choose which language they see. This is harder than it looks.

Until then, I hope this helps!

French:

J'ai noté que certains viennent ici des websites écrits en français ou Italien ou d'autres langues. Je malheureusement ne puis pas parler ou écrire dans ces langues, ainsi j'ai écrit cet intro pour vous. Il a été traduit par le google, qui n'est pas idéal.

J'ai un index de tous les videos sur cet emplacement. Il est ici: index de film

Ceci vous permettra d'accéder à tous les videos sans employer la navigation anglaise.

J'espère bientôt faire l'emplacement apparaître dans beaucoup de langues, et laisse les utilisateurs choisir que la langue ils voient. C'est plus dur qu'il regarde.

Jusque-là, j'espère que ceci aide!

Italian:

Ho notato che qualche gente viene qui dai websites scritti in francese o l'italiano o altre lingue. Purtroppo non posso parlare o scrivere in queste lingue, in modo da ho scritto questo intro per voi. È stato tradotto da google, che non è ideale.

Ho un indice di tutti i videos su questo luogo. È qui: indice della pellicola

Ciò permetterà che accediate a tutti i videos senza usando la navigazione inglese.

Spererò presto di fare il luogo comparire in molte lingue e lascio gli utenti scegliere che la lingua vede. Ciò è più dura di osserva.

Fino ad allora, spero che questo aiuti!

German:

Ich habe beachtet, daß einige Leute hier von den websites kommen, die in französisches oder in italienisch oder in andere Sprachen geschrieben werden. Ich kann nicht in diese Sprachen leider sprechen oder schreiben, also habe ich dieses intro für Sie geschrieben. Es wurde durch google übersetzt, das nicht ideal ist.

Ich habe einen Index aller videos auf diesem Aufstellungsort. Er ist hier: Filmindex

Dieses erlaubt Ihnen, alle videos zugänglich zu machen, ohne die englische Navigation zu verwenden.

Ich hoffe bald, den Aufstellungsort in vielen Sprachen erscheinen zu lassen und lasse Benutzer wählen, die Sprache sie sehen. Dieses ist härter, als es schaut.

Bis dann hoffe ich, daß dieses hilft!

Spanish:

He notado que mucha gente viene de aquí desde muchas webs escritas en francés, italiano u otros idiomas. Desafortunadamente, no puedo hablar o escribir en esos lenguajes, así que he realizado esta nota para ti.

he creado un índice de todos los vídeos de esta web. Está aquí: índice de vídeos.

Esto permitirá que puedas acceder a todos los vídeos sin usar la navegación en inglés.

Espero pronto hacer que el sitio aparezca en muchos lenguajes, y permitir elegir a los usuarios en qué lenguaje quieren verlo. Esto es más duro de lo que parece.

Hasta entonces, espero que esto ayude!!!

Last Updated ( Monday, 01 May 2006 )

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