December:

So I've been busy making a few videos... You can see concentrate glow staffs in action here:

http://videos.tepookatoys.com/media/glowteam-large.wmv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBNsFX3dpBo

 
Or you can watch me do some really bad isolations with tiny staffs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9U0oHe5iG8

Finally I've also been getting into contact club... more of that here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SolOm4uTIs8

Cunningly I forgot to include the sound on that last one... I know. I'm awesome.

Hop now sells a NTSC version of my DVD which is the good news for those of you in NTSC regions of the world. Currently I'm in Australia. hanging out in Sydney, and trying to find a good t-shirt printer...

:D
 

CONCENTRATE GLOW STAFFS

well, exciting developments, we will soon have an NTSC copy of the DVD... that's at the printing presses right now. Not to have a rest or anything, we're currently making a new DVD all about Double Staff... check it out here: http://doublestaff.firestaff.net 

Also, I'm in Australia right now, and I've been testing out some of the new Concentrate glow staffs, well doubles, in particular. And I've been really surprised by how awesome they are. After things like glowbugs and other glow staffs depressing me with their bendiness, fragility and not very brightness. Concentrate staffs also have only two light sources, one at each end, but they are very very high quality staffs. The inner fibreoptic style rod makes for perfect dffusion of the light along the length of the staff. It's properly a solid line of light. The ends are robust, I've dropped them a lot already and they haven't been damaged at all.

They haven't got any screws to get sand into, they're covered in silicon for extra damage resistance, as well as it being an excellent grip and transparent.

They bend a little, but they're quite meaty and don't bend much. They got a good weight to them, and with the batteries being at either end it makes for good contact as well as spinning potential.

They have a few different modes in the manner of glowtoys, as well as solid modes. Plus you can mix colours since each end is controlled independently.

The only trouble is that you have to remove the batteries if you aren't going to be using them for an extended period of time... (anything more than a few hours...)

Otherwise awesome performance equipment... which I'll hopefully be making a performance with soon... http://www.concentrate.com.au/

THE DVD IS FINISHED!  

It's Finished! And available for purchase! Yes! Finally! I Know! You can buy it here: manipulation.firestaff.net/buyonline.html or go and check it out on the website: manipulation.firestaff.net.

Buying it direct is best, but other real and online stores you might know and trust will be carrying it soon.  

It's got amazing inspiration sequences on it, that even I go back and watch again... they make me think i have to go out and practise more... It's got spinning tutorials, contact tutorials and doubles tutorials, all starting from absolute beginner. And they're the most well made tutorials I could make.

I have explained it as well as I possibly can in this DVD, especially the contact moves cos I loves them. The tutorials are at least ten times better than anything on this site, even the really good ones I made. 

Featuring slow motion, freeze frame and multiple angles, not just for coolness value, but concocted to show you in the most obvious way how the moves work and YOU have to move to make them work.

I didn't really like having a PayPal donate button on this site, cos it felt so cheesey, nor have I given in to Google AdWords, so if you maybe liked my free tutorials, learnt a lot and wanted to give something back, you could consider purchasing the DVD... And you get something for your money as well!

Alternatively, you can wait for the Intermediate/Advanced DVD's that I'm in the process of making, about Doubles and Contact exclusively. They're going to be my masterpieces, at least, that's my dream. The final say on Contact... and as for Doubles, covering a huge previously uncovered area, but doubles moves so fast... it's not exactly going to be the final say... :D Can't wait for them to be finished... :D

Meg

SUMMER!

So what's up? It's been a while. I'm just getting back from a holiday in america... again. Is this all I do? Well no, I quit my job, so I'm now some kinda crazy professional fire spinner or something. And when I get home, there will be actually printed Staff Manipulation DVD's waiting for me. Win.

First off thou, some pimping of my friends... Trick Concepts are a fire prop maker working out of Los Angeles. But they're awesome. They have a huge workshop and can weld anything like fiesty welding demons. They even live in the workshop and have a huge barbecue... Oh, but anyway, they make great long lasting tool, especially fire fans, but also very good staffs. They'll be happy to respond to custom requests as well. Since they weld all the fans on site, any kind of staff design you can imagine, they will probably be willing to give it a go. They're a big fan of BIG fire as well, which is no bad thing in a fire prop maker. go to: TrickConcepts.com

Secondly, Flowtoys... again. :D Flowtoys is owned and operated by Sean and Prisna, an amazing couple of people, I think they live in the future cos they're always improveing their designs and giving their customers the benefits on the same day. No waiting.  They have clear grip for their flowstaffs now which makes them much much much better than before. (You might have to ask for the grip, it's very new.)  You can add extra flowmass at the ends of the staff to add extra weight for contact. They're still a bit bendy, but when you're staff is made of polycarbonate, there isn't much you can do about it, and it'll train you to do contact better. For doubles thou, they're staffs are naturally awesome and they even make break down ones! So tell them mcp sent you, they might be extra nice to you, they might be extra nice to me! flowtoys.com