My travelling friend

I got a new friend today, to be exact a travelling friend. It's a project from a school here in Darmstadt where studends made little "travelling friends" which were given to travelling people to get as much around as possible. So mine will travel with me to burning man...where I try to pass him to someone else...I'm thinking about Karen ;-)cause he looks like that he wants to visit Singapore! Here's a picture of me and him:

Von CaPoiEira

A Poi break?

For quite a couple of weeks I don't enjoy Poi the way it was before, so I thought I should probably take a break from it. Why? Hmmm, good question! Well, maybe it's just a period of time that will past when I will have a break...that's what I really hope. Also I changed a bit. Like I was tould that some people gone to Birte at Feuerwelt and asked her why I didn't play Firepoi there because they like how I'm playing...don't understand me wrong, I feel very honored by that, it's really nice to hear when someone likes the ting you're doing, but on the other hand it puts a strange pressure on me. I always have some thoughts somewhere in my head that I have to play beautiful to cope with those expectations. And that's strange. When I started playing poi I always did it for me, and only for me. Maybe I have to find that relaxed attitude again. Then it might work again without thinking "man, that was a really crappy piece of poi-playing" Then I might find the door to the place again that the poi-people call "the flow". I'll work on that. But I'm looking forward to do a video with Karen in SF, and also I will play fire at burning man...nobody knows me there (ok, not nobody) so I can play just for me...let's see if I'll find the flow again! Another strange thing happened also related to poi...a guy talked to me at camp tipsy, he's the one making the glowballs and he wants me to test the new prototypes...nice, I really felt honored then. So I'll do that as well and I'll post my opinion about it here, but at the moment I really think they have the potential to be better than the Ogg-Poi from Flowtoys!