Battery Park Spin Jam Saturday March 20, 3pm-5pm

It's time for our second annual, "Stop Hibernating and Play, Meetup and Spin Jam" in Battery Park.

Last year was a blast with a dozen people. Let's double that!

Bring poi, staves, hoops, wands, juggling balls and any other silliness that appeals to you.

Saturday, March 3pm

3PM SHARP!

(This means you, Mitch! Don't show up at 6pm. We'll be gone.)

And note, Crystal, it's the very north of Battery Park, the park, not Battery Park City, the ugly buildings.

Take the 1,2,3,A,C to Chambers or the 4,5,6,R,W to City Hall.

Walk straight West on Chambers Street until you get to the water.

Do not walk south into the buildings or toward ground zero.

Here's a map. http://bit.ly/battery_poi

We'll go until 5pm or whenever people are tired and then head off for Mexican food and Margarharittas. Woo hoo!

Come Play With Me!

Last year's spring spin jam! Sexay!

The Incredible Poi Duo

Thanks so much to Marius Shanzer for his fabulous Dance Parade 2009 Album including this great shot of Masae and me.

Fun In The Sun

Flagtastic!

Go, Cody! Go!

Fire Poi!

After ten fabulous weeks of studying poi,
my class graduated with a fire spinning spectacular.

Poi, The International Language

I've been meeting people with mad poi skills ... like raver boy here.



Look who's back.



Everyone wants to try out my new kite poi.



Turns out you don't even need a common language to learn poi. I taught this deaf girl to spin. She picked it up right away.



If you're happy and you know it spin your poi.



Mari J is a fire spinner from Japan. Her poi dance is fabulous.

Poi Cannot Be Stopped!

We had fun this weekend unicycling, juggling and spinning poi in the park. Then we got rained on. Did that stop us? Hell no!



My bathrobes got more use than they have in ages.

Buwah ha ha ha! More converts!

Like a dope fiend who isn't happy until everyone they know is a pothead, I'm recruiting my friends to the cult of poi. Go, Kelli, Go!

Poi Friends

Poi isn't just fun and healthy, it's surprisingly social. People want to join in or just try so often I now carry a bag full of sock poi I made. I'm making tons of new "poi friends".

This little heart-breaker is Nick from Kahzakistan.



This was his first time spinning. He was a natural.



I like to see how many people I can get spinning at once.
This girl has started meeting me in the park often to Poi.



Bette took the poi and immediately busted out some serious moves.



By far my favorite experience so far was when I taught a whole family to poi in Fort Tryon Park.



Aren't they just adorable?