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 […]
Read more "I’m Hot (Literally)"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 […]
Read more "Spinning Fire properly is hard!"Since I am still unable to spin fire for another few days I have decided to put together a post detailing the history of poi and where it came from. Next week I should be allowed to spin again, though only for short periods of time. This has honestly been one of the biggest frustrations […]
Read more "The Origins of Poi"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 […]
Read more "The first lessons in Fire Spinning — Stop Hitting Yourself"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 […]
Read more "Constructing a Contact Staff"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 […]
Read more "What this blog is all about, also known as an Introduction."