Also good to know before your first burn: - the fire is super loud (you will barely hear the music of your bluetooth speakers...) - the fire is extremly bright and you won't see your environment if its night basically you are isolated from the rest of the world. it is just you with the fire that will demand your respect ;)
I was taught years ago that you should practice until you feel that you're ready to do fire. Once you feel ready to do fire, keep practicing your halfway there. Also, they never warn you about how bad singed hair smells. I swear I can still smell it when I shower two days later.
Thank for covering this!! Used to run a smalli-sh fire spinning group and this was always the first thing for new members to not just hear but understand. So glad that you use the two bucket system to for fueling! One thing I would add is not spinning after rain/when there is water on the ground. If fuel spills/drips you suddenly have a literal river of gas that moves much further out than you would think, especially when doing ground spin offs
Something I've got as a tool for a safety spotter Naturally as fire can be incredibly loud and rather blinding during a nighttime spin, an air horn is always louder! My spotters always know that if anyone was to approach, or something go wrong, I may not be able to see or hear it, Air horn is a very distinct noise and to me means "Stop NOW!"
I think this video was great thank you so much for sharing it. I would also add to your five-minute rule, in addition to, not hitting yourself for five I would say also -don’t get your poi tangled up for five -and don’t hit anything else for five
I know that before you light up your pois you remove excess fuel from them. But in Poland we even tend to give our props a quick dip before we light them up and we start our shows by spining really quickly to drain the excess fuel. We do that becaouse fuel lands on the ground still lit and it creats cool looking trails of fire. I encorage you to try it and play around with it and find other shapes you can make with it for example circle. If you want i can send you on e-mail a video of me doing it.
Thanks for the suggestions and references Drex. The first set of Poi I was given were fire poi, and I think I lit them up the first time 2-3 weeks after I started learning (I could do the 3 beat weave forward & reverse and I almost had the 4 beat fountain down). Always loved playing with fire, so that wasn't an issue, and where we live we've had to put out several wildfires on/near our property so fire safety (and spotters) are common practice. The 3rd time I ever spun fire the handle broke off one of the poi while I was doing a buzzsaw, so I had to just hold the chain end till they burned out...
You definitely can but if your fire poi have chains the chains can get really hot and burn you pretty bad I do arm wraps spiral wraps and leg wraps with sleeves on
Btw my clothes have started on fire from touching the fire poi to them the fuel will soak into the cloth and stay lit for a moment or until I blow them out I also just invested in some fire resistant Kevlar sleeves for welding they are like 20 dollars on Amazon or home depot and help me to not burn myself with those glowstringy moves
Yes. I do wraps and bumps w/o issue. I also "catch" the poi head in one hand and toss it back. I'm not actually gripping it, more of cupping it. My experience has been that the bottom is not as hot as all the heat and flames are going up.
