The second tutorial in my Contact Poi series, this one is about inner forearm rolls. Important tips and tricks to this move: Keep your forearm flat at all times Use your wrist to flip your hand to allow you to catch the poi head. If you like these tutorials, use the share button at the [...]
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Contact Poi Lesson 2: Inner Forearm Roll
November 5th, 2010 
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No Comments »Demand a Poi workshop in your area!
November 1st, 2010 asafpoi I’ve signed up to Eventful, which allows people to demand that I come to their area, which would really help me plan my next workshop tour, you can use the “Demand It!” button below if you like poi, would like to learn more poi, would like to come to my poi workshops, and/or are awesome. [...]
Contact Poi Lesson: Balance Points
October 30th, 2010 asafpoi This Poi tutorial is the first in a series of Contact Poi tutorials I’m currently making, I’ll be teaching some basic contact poi moves, as well as exercises that help learn them and clean them up. To follow this blog for new poi videos and tutorials, subscribe to my newsletter Here’s the video, enjoy:
Poi Homework Tutorial – Opposite Direction Isolated Throws
October 25th, 2010 asafpoi Hi everyone, I’ve started making more Poi tutorials, I’m currently doing a series of “homework” tutorials for people who’ve been to my workshops. These homework tutorials will follow up what I usually teach during my workshop, and will help people go even deeper into what I’ve been teaching. Some, like this one, will follow up [...]
Article: Poi throws
October 21st, 2010 asafpoi Poi Throws – By Poiboy – Asaf More Hi everyone, I’ve decided to release some parts of my throws workshop as an article, focusing on some theories and ideas that I use for learning, cleaning up, and coming up with new ideas with throws. The Physics of Poi Throws – What affects throws, and how [...]
Posted in Articles, Featured Posts, Poi Tags: article, catch, fire spinning, Fire Spinning Lessons, juggling, lesson, Pendulum Poi, Poi, Poi Manipulation, Poi Throws, Poiboy, release, throw, toss, Tutorial, Workshop 8 Comments »UK Poi Workshop Tour has ended
September 29th, 2010 asafpoi After about 3 weeks and 5 workshops, me and Charlie have finished our tour of the UK. Our 3 largest workshops were Manchester, London, and Bristol, with 7, 6, and 4 students. Apart from having to move some dates due to a venue cancelling on us, the workshops all went well, with both the complete [...]
Poiboy in Poland – Poi workshops and Altergrawitacja
June 22nd, 2010 asafpoi After spending about 18 hours on trains, I arrived in Krakow and met my friend Cyrik. We went to his place to drop off our stuff, then headed out to eat and go to the first workshop. That workshop went quite well (apart from a delay of one hour, which we used for some free [...]
Kiev Fire Fest 2010
June 17th, 2010 asafpoi After 2 flights that took about 7 hours combined, I arrived in Kiev and was greeted by Kupava, who picked me up and we drove to the Kiev train station to meet everyone else. We were waiting for Mel since his train was delayed, and I met Alyssa, Max, Clyde, and Nushka. After a few [...]
The Great Poi Tour of Europe Begins Today!
June 8th, 2010 asafpoi As a lot of you may know, I’ll be travelling in Europe starting today. My first stop will be KFF – Kiev Fire Fest in Ukraine. I’ll be teaching 2 Poi Master-Classes, on throws and contact poi. I will also be part of the Fire shows, along with many of the worlds best fire theatres [...]
Learn Poi – spinning videos and tutorials, poi tips, movements, tricks and lessons, see me at the KFF Fire fest!
May 28th, 2010 asafpoi Learn poi and improve your spinning skills, join me on my European workshops this summer for excellent fire tips, tricks and moves. I’ll be performing and teaching at the KFF – Kiev Fire Festival, in Kiev, Ukraine. Come to KFF to see excellent fire shows with great performances of the best fire teams, fire theatres, [...]