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As one of the newest brothers in the primary
group. Sundance and I both met at Snowstorm, which was kind of
the final tryout to join for us. I'd seen and done some performances with
Vertigo and Vortex at a few of the previous
parties we'd frequent at Asylum in Austin.
As a kid I got into playing with staffs by
watching TMNT. Since I was usually considered the smart one of my
friends (aka the nerd), I always got last choice when role-playing, and thus
got Donatello. But that was okay cause Donatello could weild a
staff and kick butt while doing advanced scientific stuph. Anyways thanks to
him I learned how to twirl a staff, although not to the point that a true
staffer can.
While I admit I was a pyro at a young age (caught
myself on fire at the age of 8 heh DON'T DO THIS KIDS!) I never really
thought of adding fire to my staff play, ecspecially not for entertaining
others. Back in the early part of2000 my roommate and I were selling glowsticks
(well he was, I was funding sorta) and we sat around with glowsticks on the end
of lanyards one night. We kept trying to do 2 at once but failed miserably, but
we played with half a set and enjoyed ourselves. Another one of my friends
mentioned to us that lots of kids at "raves" would twirl a set of glowsticks on
strings, my interest piqued. A few weeks later I found some stuph online about
twirling fire and incorperated it into glowsticks.
Then While I was hanging out at Kerrville Folk
Festival later that year I heard about this girl, Aurora, that
was twirling fire on chains, I was enthralled. Finally on the last night I was
there as I was going to bed I saw her out of the corner of my eye and ran over
to watch. It was a beautiful performance, and i swore to myself that I would
learn how to do the art well.
Another few months passed and after lots of
practice and finally sitting down to order my fire poi I was ready to go. So
for my birthday at a friend's house I took my equipment and twirled fire most
of the night. It was great. Since then I've been twirling at various parties,
clubs, political functions, and other activities. First by myself, but lately
as a member of the Brothers of the Flame.
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