Michael, thank you for inspiration an motivation to do contact staff. I wish you to know how many kids all over the world was watching MCP when there was almost nothing. I have it burned on CD to carry with myself. I wish you the best and I am sending you greetings from Slovakia. I am glad to be tiny part of pioneering fireshow community here in SVK. Circa 17 years from now. It's good to see you still alive, I hope you are doing well.
The 14yo boy in the front is me (who also partially translated without fully understanding due to (at the time) very poor English skills), lol, I didn't know these videos exist, but was recently thinking about you, dear MCP and how fun and special these weeks were. Now I live in Berlin, and If you ever come here, I'd love to have a coffee together:)
jsut coming back for old times sake. Fun brag, I got to translate a hybrids class for MCP at the Japan Fire Festival in 2008. Truly a revolutionary concept video for double staffs.
Thanks for all the stuff U Put it Info the Internet :) its a Lot of Work to make so different Videos and i learnd soo much from U. I want to buy the DVD :D
i started contact only because of one of ur Video`s. I saw for the first time the matrix move. I thought ..cool i want to do that move.. a long time ago .. guess what.. i still can`t do the matrix (stable). But i had a lot of fun in between. Thanks for the Video`s mate !
Mad watching this stuff 10 or so years after I first saw it and still being completely mindblown. You're a legend Mike, really inspirational. Sad I never had the patience to learn half of it :D
This is probably an odd request, but I'll ask anyway. A long time ago, you used to post some vloggy-type videos to Google video, back when that was a thing. Do those videos still exist on the internet somewhere for watching? I've been going down memory lane and remember watching them on repeat.
Ive been spinning for awhile and have kinda been tapering off as I really don't have others who are into it past trying to pick up girls.. strange I know. But instead of going out and doing so many drugs you should be dead I was able to keep to myself and just spin but then life through a hell of a speed bump in the form of cancer associated with a tumor the size of a very large orange and it had to come out for me to live. Ended up in a coma for roughly 4 or 5 months. Had to relearn like a baby how to walk and talk again. Unfortunately my mobility has tanked but I can walk talk and I've started to spin again it is at the very least frustrating. Buuuut it is like poi has gone 400 years into the future! Could anyone who has the time give me any tips? I just was able to relearn meltdowns as well as the anti spin variant. Im trying to learn horizontal stacking but don't know how to keep my poi straight, normal stacking suck as under over stalls or box stalls ive relearned.
Ive been spinning poi for right around 10 years now. This guy has been inspiring me for some time now! Im now begging to teach my 8 year old daughter as she has been intraced by it for that long.
Long time fan of MCP here. I made one of these about ten years ago and still use it in our shows today. Check out this video, not so much contact but the crowd loves all the fire. I call my invention of it "the Decagon of Death" because it has ten sides and I got my start in sideshow where everything is called "of Death". Decagon begins at 3:56
This is awesome dude. I started playing around with this concept 2 days ago and then someone sent me a link to your contact staff tutorials wiki and move tree (what a treasure trove!!!) and see now that you've already done it!! Hope to get it soon - thank you for the inspiration!
