This performance was amazing. Just watching it makes me realize how I need to break my bubble and explore moving in new ways. Malcolm does things I’d never give myself permission to do and he does it so smooth. This is a testament to freeing ourselves from the limitations of what we expect to look good or right or cool or whatever other judgement we might place on movement. Malcolm is a master of the highest degree. So thankful for his footage on the Hoop technique DVD. His Demo in our inspirational footage is mind blowing. I can’t wait to share that. I shot this footage on our Canon 7d but the conditions were challenging.

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This is awesome! Thank you Philo. Another one of these shorts about Burning Man is linked below. If you’d like to make your own, visit xtranormal

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ::: Mark Twain

I yanked that quote and photo from Sara’s family website which I would encourage you to check out: here

I’m overwhelmed and grateful for the opportunities in my life right now. I’m just back from teaching a workshop in Boulder. The class was enthusiastic, committed, and skilled. Boulder has to be one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever visited. Now I have one day to shift gears and hop on a plane to Fiji to help design GaiaTree. Wow. Life is exploding. The video below is also from Sarah and the Happy Janssens :)

Rich Porter – Hoop Technique Workshop from Sara Janssen on Vimeo.

i have so much more to write and so little time. About to head to bed. Time to make my insane to-do list for tomorrow, the last day in the US prior to Fiji. On top of that I return and go straight to the Burn. Wow. Thank you universe.

PS. Danielle is the best host ever. She and Nick are some pf the best fire hoopers I’ve ever seen. Also, Mary and Cat’s trek from Iowa for our workshop help inspire me to keep doing this. So many more.

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I can’t even find a copy of this track online to link to but the track is sick. And Bax is tearing it up. We’ve got a new sweet vid from Brecken a few days ago and now something tight, flowing and innovative from Bax?! This is gonna be a good Burn.

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Damn. This is maybe the best hooping video I can remember. At the very least, it’s the most original. The editing is artistic and carries her point across. This is about the process and the freedom to explore. Brecken isn’t trying to hoop like anyone but herself and she doesn’t limit what that might look like.

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I was able to hop on stage twice at Floydfest with these amazing women. I’m actrually still here and writing from a little internet kiosk. Leah and Chloe are sisters, amazingly talented lyricists and musicians, and on top of that, they spin fire. On top of that, they might join us for the burn. We’ll see.

Grab there album on iTunes: here

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I can’t believe I didn’t get to connect with this woman when she came out and stayed with Khan recently. This video is great, inspiring, artistic, and the girl has skills. Wow.

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I can taste the essence of what’s to come and it scares me and excites me both. On the plane ride back from the Hoop Convergence 2010 in a moment of melancholy reverie – the result of 4 days of little to no sleep, the return from the high of circular community – I wrote this down in my journal:

“I believe myself capable of great things.”

Continue Reading: here

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Once again I’ll be doing a performance at the Monthly Rumpus on July 12th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm in San Francisco. My amazing friend Julie Greicius writes for the The Rumpus and has invited me to perform. She’s a gorgeous woman, a brilliant writer and a great hooper. It’s sorta funny to do this event without Ariane around. It’s almost like I’m hijacking her friends and scene. She used to write at a place called “The Groto” and spoke about Stephen Elliot and many of the others involved in The Rumpus. I hadn’t met some of the folks she often spoke about such as Stephen Elliot until after she’d already moved to New York. Being introduced to them later was a trip.

Last time I performed at the Monthly Rumpus, I got up and spoke about my hoop path for about ten minutes before performing. I’ll probably do the same thing. I like humanizing myself. I’m not just a hoop performer. Sure, I can perform, but I think my value is me, not just my hooping ability. With this crowd, if I just ran up there and hooped I’d feel like a go-go dancer, which I’m not. I’m not really sure how performing will fit into my future but as long as I’m getting a kick out of it, and that outweighs the cost, I’ll keep doing it.

I also feel a responsibility to perform. Me on-stage, being me, and being masculine, advertises the accessibility of this life changing tool to an audience that may not have realized it. It’s not for ego gratification, though that does exist. If I did this only for the ego boost, it wouldn’t be sustainable for me. Doing it fore a greater idea… allowing men to realize they can hoop, it’s not just for women… that’s what motivates me. Performing is a pain in the ass and pays terribly on the rare occasion that it pays.

I digress… regardless, come out and see the show. It’ll be a good time. The speaker’s last time were great. And I’ll be there bein me.

July 12th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm in San Francisco.

Featuring authors Justine Sharrock, Matt Stewart, Eli Horowitz w/ Mac Barnett, Lauren Wheeler, and Matthew L. Mosely.

A performance by hooper of the year Richard Porter.

Music by Ember Shrag.

Comedy by the hilarious Janine Brito.

Food provided by The Girl From Empanada.
Also chances to win great prizes in our monthly porn raffle!

$10, cheap! You can’t afford not to go.

Hosted by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott.

NOTE: No one under 21 years old will be admitted.

Get your tickets: here

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Such a great opportunity for us when we hooped on stage with DJ Icon on the main stage at Precompression at about 1:30 last Saturday. Revolva, Spiral and I killed it :) We’d already performed on the fire stage but getting up again was a treat.

Just back from Movement Play. Once again it changed my life. I can’t for next year. More to come.

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