Nope, not The Meteor Book. (really. I edited and publish it.)*

If you are looking for a single-ball meteor (fire or otherwise), with the other end simply a length of rope, you are out of luck. There are two areas that are related.

First are the techniques in doing leg, arm, neck, and torso wraps with sock-poi. Samie-same, but with a longer handle and proportionately slower swing. This tends to look like dance with props, or Tai Chi, rather than the usual fire-spinning. (Okay, there is one page on wraps in The Meteor Book, but any spinner gathering will teach you more.)

Then there is the whole martial arts scene, where it's expensive and requires that you adopt the required insular loyalty, forsake all other teachers, and spend several years mastering prerequisites that you have no particular interst in. However, if you can find the head teacher at a dojo and speak to him _outside_ class, most will teach you anything you want if you're willing to pay for it and take lessons in private.

Go with the sock-poi. (You much bettah off.)

Two people who have worked with this a little are David Fireninja and Adam Adler. Adam is in his first year of medical residency and doesn't have time to eat, let alone play. David is disgusted with fire-fetish dancers who learn his routines and leave to get better pay in strip clubs; and besides, running his art gallery is much more fun. Both are findable in the Portland area.

And then there's getting DVDs of some of the Jackie Chan movies where he uses similar materials, and watching them over and over, reeeeaal slow. Try YouTube with combinations varieous key words: fire ball dance rope meteor hammer jackie-chan, etc.

* Also, Serious Juggling no longer carries The Meteor Book or the CJ 1&2 DVDs, regardless of what's on their web site, because I no longer sell to them and haven't for three years. Try Neon Husky, Dube, Renegade, Firetoys, or Juggleart.