I’m Hot (Literally)

So I tend to do some slightly ridiculous things. In this case I wanted to be able to make my fire spinning a little flashier, so I learned how to light my hands on fire to transfer the fire from one end of my staff to another. Is it a good idea? Probably not. Does […]

Twine Twine!

For the EdTech Resource creation project a Twine guide was created. This guide will walk any user through how to use twine based on what the participant is interested in learning to do. Each step is explained using simple language so it can be used for high school students or teachers, and each one provides […]

Spinning Fire properly is hard!

So, my progress with the staff has hit a bit of a stalling point. I’ve become fairly adept at the modified wall plane rotor that I was taught, and have managed to slip in the act of throwing it in the air and catching it again. I even figured out how to roll it over […]

Attacking the Week with All my Heart!

So this week has been a blur. This reflection will be more of a “how gracious my instructors are” rather than a “this is what I understood from the week. I started my week with great intentions. I picked up my kids on Monday after school, on Tuesday I realized (thanks to my 336 pod) […]

The first lessons in Fire Spinning — Stop Hitting Yourself

Last weekend I had the opportunity to build practice staves with my kids, and one of their friends. We had a blast in this process, as documented in my previous update. At the end of the weekend we had our first lessons in how to use these staves. It did not take too long for […]

Reflecting on Week #3 – Getting a Handle on Things

So this last week has been a whirlwind. I have managed to not feel overwhelmed by school. The rest of life is a whole other story though. Projects due for Wednesday observation classes are now understood, video and blog postings are rolling along at a relatively decent pace, and I felt like the task list […]

Constructing a Contact Staff

Well, this week has been VERY productive. It started off with the building of my own contact staff, and has ended with the construction of three more staves and a first lesson in how to use them. For the sake of construction I drifted through several DIY sites that gave me a variety of ideas […]

Reflections of the inter-Twined first week(s)

The first weeks of class have come and gone and man has it ever been a roller coaster. Going into this semester I felt foolishly prepared. By the end of my undergrad in December I understood how university worked and had all my systems in place to succeed, nothing was going to stop me when […]

What this blog is all about, also known as an Introduction.

Welcome to the Home Spun Adventures of the Mauger (pronounced Major) boys. This blog is going to chronicle the adventures I have as I try to learn a skill I have been interested in for somewhere close to nineteen years. Fire spinning sparked (haha) my interest when I was sixteen and went to Victoria’s […]