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 them really deserved it.

The DVD is available for download on HOP, and also for sale – here.

I really recommend buying it and supporting the awesome people at HOP, they deserve it!

My COL entry

My good friend and amazing juggler Eden had a birthday party at Sandciell circus school in Israel. It was pure awesome, with workshops, an amazing cabaret show, and lots of beautiful awesome people.

This is my routine from the cabaret show.
Big thanks to Ronan, Cyrille, Keith, Sa, Rastaxel and Nulleamai for being my inspirations.

Happy birthday Eden, thanks for organizing this amazing party and inviting me to perform, keep being awesome!

Spinning glow poi after the last workshops at Speevers

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 fundamentals like planes, crossing, and turning. This is for complete beginners, and will help them learn everything in the beginners poi course. More details here.

Starting January 2nd, I’ll be teaching 2 poi courses in Yaffo, one for beginners and one for advanced students. More details here.

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.

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 for a tutorial on Forearm Transfers!

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 bottom so more people will know how to contact poi. You can also subscribe to my newsletter on the left to be updated on new tutorials and future workshops.

Enjoy the video, happy spinning!

Poiboy.

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.

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Here’s the video, enjoy:

Related Posts:

• Contact Poi Lesson 2: Inner Forearm Roll
• Learn Poi – spinning videos and tutorials, poi tips, movements, tricks and lessons, see me at the KFF Fire fest!
• Online Poi Lessons
• Circles of Light 2010 – First Place!
• Contact Poi Lesson 3: Outer Forearm Roll

Fire Shows

Photo by Oleg Mirsoyan

I’ve been spinning fire since 2003, and I’ve done many fire shows, both by myself and with larger groups.

I regularly perform in the Israeli Juggling Convention’s Fire show as one of the top acts, as well as shows for private events.
Poi is my main prop, and I have a history of amazing crowds with it. I also use Contact Staff, Double Staves, and Fire Orb in my performances, all with a great fusion of clean, advanced technique, dance, martial arts, and theater.

Fire shows can be either one continuous show (great for corporate events or birthday parties) , or can be presented as short “breaks”, where separate routines are performed during a longer period of time (great for clubs and bars).
For festivals, juggling conventions and similiar events I perform my fire poi routine, my contact poi routine, and teach some of my workshops.

As I’m currently travelling, I have a lot of workshops and performances planned, so it’s best to contact me as far in advance as possible. Depending on where I currently am, group performances might be available. Prices vary depending on type of event, type of show, location, and amount of performers.

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For those of you who don’t know, FireDrums is one of the best and biggest US Fire Festivals. Unfortunately I’ve missed it this year, but here’s a collection of great videos from the festival:

Ronan Spinning Fire (video by Drex)

Grimm With Fans: (video by MemoryLena)

Yuta and Ronan fire improvisation: (video by Yuta)

Aileen with Contact Staff: (video by Yuta)

Notes from Ronan’s throw workshop: (video by GreyPoiAllStar)

I often get replies to videos asking what gear I’m using, here’s a list of what I currently have and use regularly:

Pendulum Poi from HOP:

I got my first pair of pendulum poi from Ronan, his design is slightly different than HOP’s, they use thicker string, which I found really helps with contact moves and throws, as it’s more visible and spins slower, which means contact will be much easier. The contact ball poi heads are also great due to their weight, which allows a lot of control for stalls and floats for example, but their not too heavy so they don’t wear down your shoulders when doing flowers, for instance.

Home of Poi – 80mm Pendulum Poi

4 inch Mura stitched fire poi from HOP:

Having to quickly and cheaply replace my fire heads, I ordered these. They’re great, they have pretty large flames due to their surface area, and burn for about 3-4 minutes with Lamp Oil. They’re very good and have a very good price, personally I find them a bit too light, but I’ve grown used to home made monstrous Isis poi which were way too heavy, so light is better this time around.

Home of Poi – 4inch Mura Fire Poi

Pro Series Chains with Wooden Ball Handle:

So far these are the best chains I’ve found, and the ball handles makes these perfect for throws. They are one piece with a quicklink at the end to allow switching poi heads, they have 2 swivels, one attached to the handle and one right before the quicklink, coupled with the chain, which is very durable, these allow for orbitals to be performed without any risk for the chain (unlike ball chain). The fact that they’re one piece also means they’re much safer and less painful than their counterparts with many split rings and large quicklinks all over the place.

All in all these are really worth their price and are definitely the best chains I’ve ever used.

Home of Poi – Pair of Pro Series Chain Cords w/ Ball Handles