So, umm... can you people come to Wildfire? Its a performants arts training camp in southern Connecticut, apparently the largest of its kind (the only of its kind?)

I have LOTS of rope dart stuff to share, and I want quite badly to pick up new material. At the moment all I have are beginers screwing up to inspire me for new content... which works supprisingly well, actually.

www.copperheadfire.com/wildfire would be the website for WF, pretty sure the class schedule is from last year, though.

mebbe I should get my lazy ass together and make a vid. There's alot of new meteor stuff for me, lots of good stuff to whack yourself in the head with. Now to come up w bitchin names for them, hmm

Horizontal Contact
Basic h neck rolls to start, try for two. It's kind of like a hula hooping motion. Next go from neck to under one arm, exit at the waist. Thats one complete neck roll, on the next revolution just raise your far arm and allow the rope to wrap around your shoulder, then you just reach down to your waist with your leading hand and (backhanded) pull out. Once you start playing with leading edge contact moves, you can replicate most contact moves. One of my fav setups involves(hard to explain, but I'll try) a backwards spin, leading hand bent back like wrist at shoulder(alot of leading edge here) wrap rope around shoulder to the armpit, then let go. Starts with a neck roll, but it's a good setup move for combos, like neck roll to h halo to neck roll(matrix eventually)

Vertical contact - or, even better ways to whack yourself in the head
Building blocks - crossers, neck through wraps, front and back entry
First, just work on a no hands neck roll, one full revolution(I think), no hands. Next, one of the more interesting moves I've happened on recently, compound thru wraps, or neck burners, heh. From weave, double neck wrap, let go, cross sides. One full revolution, no hands, and sometimes it even pops neatly back into my hands for a clean exit.

Throws to contact
Backside steve - So is a throw, then you just raise the opposite arm, allow it to slide down the outside of the arm, down the body, it spirals a bit, and you can catch it at the waist just like the roll mentioned above.
One more thing, then I should get back to work.
Neck catches, horizontal throw, catch in the crook of the neck, no hands. Sometimes into a neck roll too.

Sorry I dont have time to explain more right now, just some new stuff I've been working on.

hyperloops work if i turn my body 180 to untangle them. also if i release one hand and go into a one hand weave or rotor (i guess that's what you call the contact hand thing where it goes in a circle but your not holding it, just kinda gliding it yeah?) the tangle will come out

haven't been able to get inversions with them.

whenever i try something like a steve it seems like hellish burn land. i may have posted earlier about the one handed polyrhythm butterfly flowers(3.1. and 4.1) they work pretty well, i keep head doing the 1 about twice as long as the head thats doing the 3 or 4

also, what size is your meteor, and about how much weight do you have on the ends... something to play with.

meteor is fun because almost all the poi stuff carries over, sometimes limited and harder, but it still works, but then you can do the mad fun meteor only stuff.

hmm

Rope dart aim: Horizontal aim is position of the foot. Vertical aim is 100% timing of the release. Perhaps you can do some vertical aim with positioning, but it really is just changing the timing. High means too early a release, low is too late.

>anyone here fooled around with any combat?
Someone has. I haven't. in my (arrogant) opinion, fire combat falls into two categories: improvised fire sparring, which is almost always slow and boring, with a few fleeting moments of danger and choregraphed fire dance combat, which almost always looks amazingly hokey. Ive seen fire combat done well once or twice.

Really sit down and ask yourself why you want to do fire combat. Is it because your tools are based on martial tools? Because that's not really a great reason. Is it because you feel that you are lacking dance? Try something less agressive. Now, if you want to add storylines into shows, then you are on to something, because agression/opposition is something that is easy to grasp.

i'm trying to get vid's up, but i don't have a camera. soon though...

i was in the greensboro crowd, and my friend nire went up to wilmington a little bit ago and spun with bash. however now i' am in asheville, goin to school.

i don't have a meteor right now, my monster meteor broke so now it's a dart. but it's a burnable rope dart, so it's smooth as butta. and about ten feet long. my other dart is a chain with 2' jungle wrap kevlar on the head.

what's pdf?

oh! i've been working on windup's and then letting them rip. the aim is the tricky part. and i'm sure you're familiar with some of the martial arts move that have some crazy wraps and then with one move are releashed at a target point. those are fun....

thanks for the link to the vids. i'll check em out when i've got a better signal.