I didn’t get to post this before Firedrums, so I’m posting about both events together. Kinetic Fire After a lot of excitement and anticipation (and 4 flights), I landed in Chicago airport .I met my lovely host Ellie, and we drove back to her place with Alex. We spent some time around Chicago, and when we [...]
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2011 Poi tour
April 19th, 2011 
asafpoi Hi everyone, I’ll be traveling in the US and Europe again this summer, Charlie and I will be teaching workshops all over Europe, here’s our plan for workshops and Festivals, tickets will be available once I have final details on workshops. May 12-15 – Kinetic Fire in Illinois, USA May 19-22 – Firedrums in California, [...]
Keith Marshall – Antiphon Poi
April 11th, 2011 asafpoi My friend Keith from Edinburgh doing awesome things with poi in Bristol. Pure awesome!
Circles of Light 2010 – First Place!
January 20th, 2011 asafpoi I found out last night that I won first place on Home of Poi’s “Circles of Light” competition. I’m still incredibly happy, this is a dream come true for me! Huge thanks to my friends in Poland who helped me film this Congratulations to Meg and Keith for winning 2nd and 3rd place, both of [...]
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1 Comment »Poi DVD Review: Encyclo-Poi-Dia 2
December 7th, 2010 asafpoi I’d really like to recommend this DVD by Zan and AlienJon, I’ve learnt a lot from it, and it changed my approach to learning, teaching, and doing poi in a lot of ways. This DVD suits both beginners and advanced spinners, it starts off with some basic concepts like planes, timings, directions, and framing, and [...]
More Poi workshops and courses in Yaffo!
November 29th, 2010 asafpoi After the success of the last double workshop in Yaffo, I’ve decided to run 3 more events there in the near future. On December 19th I’ll be teaching another double workshop, this time about Pendulums, and about Body Movement. More details here. On December 24th I’m doing a free Introduction to Poi class, focusing on [...]
Poiboy – Poi in a Forest
November 26th, 2010 asafpoi Cyrille Humen recently made an amazing new video, which inspired me to go out and film this video. Some new poi manipulation moves, new bits from my routine, and new sequences. Watch it in HD! Enjoy Coming soon – the Forearm Transfers tutorial, and another poi article.
Posted in Featured Posts, Poi, Videos Tags: contact juggling, contact poi, juggling, Manipoi, Poi Manipulation, Poi Moves, Poi Technique, Poi Throws, poi video, Poi Videos, Videos No Comments »Poi Workshops in Yaffo, and future poi courses @ Speevers.
November 21st, 2010 asafpoi The 2 workshops last night in Yaffo went great, we had a pretty good turnout of 5 students, from all over the country (as well as Norway!), as well as people watching online in the first streaming Poi workshop (that I know of). After the workshop I performed my poi manipulation routine, and we had [...]
Contact Poi Lesson 3: Outer Forearm Roll
November 13th, 2010 asafpoi Another in the Contact Poi tutorial series, this time we’ll learn outer forearm rolls. Important tips and tricks for this move: Keep your forearm parallel to the ground, parallel to your chest, and your elbow bent at 90 degrees. Start the roll when the string is vertical. Don’t gravity roll. Ever. Check back next week [...]
Posted in Poi, Videos Tags: contact poi, fire spinning, juggling, lesson, Poi, Poi Lessons, Poi Manipulation, Poi Throws, Poi Tutorial, Tutorial, Videos No Comments »Poi Workshop @ Speevers, Yafo, Israel
November 7th, 2010 asafpoi For Hebrew information visit the facebook event After a 4 month long workshop and performance tour in Europe, I’ve decided to do a workshop tour in Israel. On Saturday, November 20th 2010, I’ll be teaching 2 poi workshops at Speevers in Yaffo. The workshops are 1.5 hours each and are for all levels, and each [...]