It is amazing how one tutorial video can change everything. I’ve been struggling with Tuck Turns forever. I watched Nick’s tutorial, Drex tutorial and countless others on YouTube. It is only after encountering this tutorial that I was finally able to figure out what I had previously been doing wrong. So thank you FlameOz for […]
Starting To Make A Little Progress
Finally!!! I am starting to feel like I am making a little progress when it comes to spinning poi. It is so incredibly rewarding to get to see my perseverance starting to pay-off after all this time. The sensation is indescribable – an unanticipated explosion of excitement and satisfaction that comes from overcoming barriers that […]
Turning Freely With One Poi
This exercise really drives home all the little steps I ended up missing when I was trying to learn how to spin poi without a course. Having access to Nick Nick Woolsey’s course instead of trying to learn by just going through random YouTube videos has really been making all the difference. I am so […]
Starting Over Again
Okay, I am feeling somewhat more confident with my sucky backwards poi spinning so it is time to start over again with Nick Woolsey’s Poi Dancing: The Beginner Series.
The Reverse Two-Beat Weave is Winning the Battle…
But I can tell I am slowly winning the war, be it at a snail’s pace. Despite the fact that success with this is still a long way away, I did wanted to make a journal entry about something that I’ve been learning through my struggling with this experience. You have to learn to be […]
You Can’t Cut Corners With Spinning Poi
One of the major life lessons I have been learning when it comes to spinning poi is that unlike other things in life, you just can’t cut corners and you can’t rush things. I’ve put off spinning for the last while because drilling spinning in split-time reverse is just so damn boring. I came to […]
The Big Bad Reverse Two-Beat Weave
I do not have words right now to explain how frustrated I feel with my poi spinning progress right now. I have had zero issues through the years with doing a forward two-beat weave so it came to me as a major shock to find out trying to learn how to spin in reverse was […]
My First Post
My 50th birthday is around the corner and I honestly don’t know what to do with that information. One minute, I am a fresh-faced 20 year old ready to go out into the world and the next thing I know I am now about to reach a mile-stone that I am having problems wrapping my […]