Poi Classes, Fire Safety & Flow Lessons
Teaching People how to take Balls to the Face Gracefully
Course Overview This a four week course presents extensive fire (poi and other tool) safety information and focuses on students becoming familiar with burning fire poi comfortably and safely. Students garner information about safety practices, building fire poi (hoops, fans, and staves) rigs, lighting fire poi (and other props) and each student will have... Continue Reading →
Course Overview This a four week course presents extensive fire (poi and other tool) safety information and focuses on students becoming familiar with burning fire poi comfortably and safely. Students garner information about safety practices, building fire poi rigs, lighting fire poi and each student will have an opportunity to spin fire poi and... Continue Reading →
Are you looking for a life altering experience empowering you through fun, utilitarian skills you may never have considered possible before while you get to play with FIRE?!?!? If so, this workshop is for you! This fun filled class is designed to: give students an opportunity to quickly experience fire through a single session help attendees understand how to... Continue Reading →
Course Overview This is a four week course presents extensive fire poi safety information and focuses on students becoming familiar with burning fire poi comfortably and safely. Students garner information about safety practices, building fire poi rigs, lighting fire poi and each student will have an opportunity to spin fire poi and practice being a... Continue Reading →
Most people easily consider that the fire itself is dangerous, which of course is accurate, particularly if you're undereducated about how to handle and extinguish it safely. If they are people that are qualified to be performing, we also hope they are considering other things that go along with that like placement of the depot, spin... Continue Reading →
We recently published an article titled 5 Criteria To Help You Decide if Someone is Ready to Spin Fire and were asked: "What's important about someone being able to run their hand through the flame or putting out a fire?" In fact, enough people commented on this that we thought the first safety article deserved a... Continue Reading →
Today's post is about two different questions that came up recently on Facebook and GlitterGirl's answers to them: Question: When are wicks too worked to be safe? Answer: In all honesty, it depends on the context. If you have to do a tool inspection, it's 100% up to the standards of the fire marshal... Continue Reading →
As the fire spinning and fire dancing art form keeps growing, more and more artists are looking to learn how to spin fire. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to resources like our Beginner Fire Class where we run students through the process with a hands on approach over a 4 week period of time where they... Continue Reading →
No doubt this is a serious situation and over recent months, it's presented itself in multiple contexts to me, so I took some time to write this article in response to this question: "There's so many new performers that aren't safe and uninsured. It's starting to hinder gigs cause the fire marshal is cracking down on... Continue Reading →
Editor's note: We encourage people to get safety training and to have trained fire safety personnel who have actually extinguished tools before present with fire blankets and at the ready when spinning and in general, we support the NAFAA recommendations for fire safety. Fire jam's are a unique situation where the line between participant and audience (particularly... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago, this video showed up in my Google alerts for fire spinning. It's not well lit, though it looks to me like the guy is spinning inside in front of a drum kit with a relatively low ceiling. And then maybe a week later, this one showed up with the even more... Continue Reading →
Other than the obvious reasons -- you know, you could burn yourself, some one else, or something else -- there are some really practical reasons to care about fire safety. When you're out there in the fire community, remember the following: Prevent law suits! I was recently contacted by a professional artist who is being... Continue Reading →
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