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When fire juggling goes awry
S
She looks like she barely knows how to spin poi, what the fuck is she doing fucking about with fire?
I
She looked drunk tbh
R
That was my thought
I
Yeah… Poor coordination, delayed reactions, weird resignation to being on fire.
C
Well I guess this is my life now.
L
“this is fine”
A
“I’ll just put this over here with the other fire”
D
Four! I mean five! I mean fire!
T
Dear Sir/Madam. FIRE! FIRE! Help me! Looking forward hearing from you.
B
Fire’s a hell of a drug.
W
Sometimes you have to fight fire with Fireball
D
I am relatively proficient with poi. Have spun poi drunk af. Have spun fire poi drunk af. If I had been wearing a very flammable attire, this could have happened to me. I can see it. That being said. She still looks like she can barely spin poi….
H
I used to do a bit of spinning and occasionally it would be on fire. I’m barely ‘ok’ at it but I got by – even if I did hit myself with flaming poi more than once (and one of those times was the back of my head, and those fire poi heads are chunky) and I don’t think I could have set myself on fire if I tried. I forget exactly what fuel we used, but it just didn’t really stick/transfer to anything, and it could easily just blow out if you span too fast. Then again that skirt thing she’s got looks like dried grass – don’t think it would pass any kind of reasonable risk assessment/sensible person calling it out. Not the minimize the dangerous of course: there’s been long-time, expert and well-insured fire performers that have suffered great injury, or lost their lives. There should always be a plan in place for stuff going wrong and ideally someone acting as a sort of spotter. This ‘performer’ had none of those things.
C
Yeah wearing highly flammable clothing whilst fucking around with fire is never a good idea
I
I stand corrected by an expert.
D
Your werent really wrong though. There certainly is a level of drunk where I would be so confident “I can do this” but I’d look like her. But I’d be so drunk I wouldn’t remember it happening. 😂
F
For her sake, let’s hope she doesn’t remember this.
A
I just hope nobody puts it on the Internet.
P
Fire and alcohol goes well together.
S
Don’t give fire to drunk
A
I got properly good at poi in college but never had the balls to set anything on fire lmao
B
LED poi is the shit because there’s no serious risk and once someone gets confident they can take the leap to fire. Or not, it looks really good at night too.
L
I disagree. My roommate years back practiced spinning LED poi inside and took out our television.
B
Was the poi actually Wiimotes on leashes?
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L
Fools
S
I’ve juggled some with torches, and when i tried fire poi it felt much scarier since you’re slightly attached to the fire, and it’s much more “around” your body and in places you don’t see. Torches are generally just in front of you and you can immediately drop them if you need.
K
Fire really isn’t that much different if you have any sort of actual practice. If you were properly good fire wouldn’t have been a big deal at all. It’s not that scary really.
H
I was wondering about the burning staffs on the ground and then realized “this is going poorly”
M
My step sister was a fire-dancer (no clue how it is called in englisch). One rule I heard about is to wear very tight fitting clothes while performing, because you really don’t want to have anything on you that you have not perfect control over.
B
That and have a safety with a fire suppression blanket ready to go, because even with experienced spinners shit can happen.
C
tight fitting helps, but having natural fiber is vastly more important. anything synthetic can melt and stick.
D
She has no idea what she’s doing. You can tell she has no string control, has no idea where momentum is going to send her poi, has no idea how to counter that momentum and clearly doesn’t know how to untangle her poi when they twist. She’s going to be lucky if she doesn’t seriously hurt herself, someone else or burn down that business. She also looks like she’s using gasoline as a fuel instead of something like Colman camping fuel. It burns less hot and doesn’t create as much soot or smoke.
P
Coleman Fuel, Camp Fuel, Naphtha, or White Gas, whatever you want to call it, is gasoline. It is gasoline without any additives which is why it is “white.” That also means it is somewhat lower octane, that’s what most of the additives are for. It exists because even back in the fifties we were not crazy enough to think having tetra-methyl lead in close proximity to food was fine. In the modern day, Coleman stoves run on unleaded gasoline just fine. Everybody uses unleaded gas because the 3.78 litre tin can of Coleman Fuel is $19.99 plus tax and unleaded gasoline is $1.34 per litre when I filled up on Friday.
V
There’s some lit sticks on the found too. Looks like cooler is melting.
C
She has no idea what she’s doing. First rule of fire performing is clothing and grass skirts aren’t it.
D
My thoughts exactly.
A
Probably wasn’t paid to do it. First off, I’m not big on the fire dance scene but I don’t think any self-respecting performer would select that Billy Joel song as part of their act. That choice definitely has drunken friend’s control over the bluetooth all over it. I’d wager she was just learning about this for a small hobby and they asked her to show her stuff.
S
The song was added to the video obviously…
A
Good move to chuck her in the pool. I hope she’s grateful.
U
I was waiting for her to fling herself in, but I’m beginning to doubt that she ever would have. Good move from pool bro.
T
I don’t think she knows how much trouble she was in, just casually trying to put out the fire, no sense of urgency
J
It’s probably kinda how people will die of choking in a restaurant because they’re embarrassed and go into the bathroom alone instead of seeking help. “There’s a pool right there but saving myself would be admitting that I’ve fucked this up bad enough to have to resort to jumping in it and I’m not quite there yet” lol. She was probably holding out for second degree burns to motivate her to accept the current situation
B
I remember my first job out of college and how awful it was. I was useless and my boss was awful. If I got a job spinning fire and set myself in fire a big part of my brain would be calculating whether I could save the gig to avoid going back to John
C
I think a professional firedancer probably has an idea about it, but maybe she’s new.
T
>maybe she’s new. More likely confidently drunk, given the setting
C
Someone said they are hosting a Hawaii theme party and this person probably said they could fire dance. Proceeds to get drunk before the show.
G
Hey, confidently drunk can be a good state of mind! 3 beers in im going up the ladder without sensing impending doom, job gets done, were all good. 8 beers in youve got the chainsaw fail videos and whatever this is LPT: If you have to double check “3” and “8” youre too far gone to do anything but chill out and drink water. Probably should’ve been done before then, but sometimes a line has to be drawn
D
Instructions unclear… Tried to draw line while drunk… Did it in paint… Neighbors arnt happy with squiggly line on their houses.
C
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