Hooping… Architecture… Whatnot…
Waldemar tirelessly documents fire events from Firedrums to the Union Square Fire Expo to Burning Man. These are some of my favorite shots of me firehooping and I owe a big thanks to him. Check out the rest of his Firedrums 2009 gallery here.
These are Cosmic Fire Double Mini Firehoops available here.
I’m still trying to get my head back on straight from my Burning Man experience. There was such much spinning goodness going on it was unbelievable. I’m not quite sure where to start the download but over the next week I’ll try and leave as much of it here as possible.
We’ll begin this all with some tech madness from Grimm in the Fire Idol contest at the Shiva Vista stage. Grimm has been investing himself in the translation of fire fan moves to mini hoops as demonstrated here. He’s spinning mini hoops with one fire wick suspended in the center by wire. I think the hoops grim is using are of his own design but Renegade jugglers manufacturers a similar product that Poki had a go with at Firedrums. Interesting design but I’m sticking to my Cosmic Fire minis with three spokes each.
Thank you Ken for posting this. This is the only clip I’ve seen of me spinning the double mini’s at FireDrums this year. Unfortunately the camera is 90 degrees off of where I was performing to. These double mini firehoops are available through Cosmic Fire.
This has totally blown my mind and opened up a bunch of new doors for me. Last week after the Temple of Poi Fire Expo, Bax, Ann, Lauren, Khan, Tuana and a I headed over to the Vulcan for an afterparty. It was a packed house with everyone spinning as always over there. Brian of Code Red Circus Conspiracy had Greg demo a Continuous Assembly Pattern (CAPs) with Poi. It took only a few minutes before I had this extension/antispin pattern figured out. Rephrasing this as CAPs made me rethink some of the other moves I’m already doing. At FireDrums, Matt (also of Code Red) mentioned that you could do it Split Time Opposite with doubles and then you would be getting (sorta) into hybrids. I’m super excited by all the concepts happening in this motion. I’ll try and explain more over the next few days. I busted my video camera so I won’t be able to post video for a few days.
This video by Alien Jon shows what I think is a Split Time Opposite Extension/Antispin CAPs. If I’m wrong on this terminology, please let me know. I can do this with my mini hoops now cleanly. It’s actually not all that difficult.
Josh Parker aka Bosendorfer Vandersloot spinning firehoop at the Temple of Poi Fire Expo in Union Square. Photograph by David Yu.
This was an amazing event. I saw some of the best fire performance I have ever seen. I could go on for hours. The level of technical and performance skill that some of these individuals have reached is astonishing. I owe a huge thanks to Isa “Glittergirl” Isaacs.
The line-up:
7:50 Emcees:Matt Freedman & Miss Rosie
7:52 Nick Griffin (LA, Temple of Poi)
7:57 Yuta (Japan)
8:01 Ms. Jamie Luv (SF)
8:04 Supreme Beings of Fire (Temple)
8:09 Insphereation (Sweden)
8:13 Vulcan Crew (Oakland)
8:17 Dai (Japan)
8:21 FireFlyGirlz (Temple of Poi)
8:25 Memory & Pi (Marin)
8:29 Cirque d’Optique (Philadelphia)
8:37 Vatra (SF)
8:41 Divine Light (Temple of Poi)
8:46 Nevisoul (Sweden) & Alien Jon (Seattle)
8:53 Manda Lights (France)
9:01 Plenty (SF)
9:05 Dark Side of the Rainbow (Temple)
9:09 Bliss Butterfly (Oakland)
9:14 Rovo and Corey (Albany NY)
9:20 Cyrille (France)
9:25 MCP (Scotland)
9:29 Isopop (San Louis Obispo)
9:33 GlitterGirl (SF)
9:37 Grimm (Cincinnati)
9:41 Banyan (Chicago)
9:46 Poki (Oakland)