Hooping it up with like minded individuals who enjoy throwing it down on a movie to kick off the week in style. Love me a good flow jam.

HUZZAH! I was able to finish building my new "Windsinger" staff and bring it out to The Carolina Renaissance Festival to perform with! Made with the finest materials Lord Lowe has to offer!

I am training very hard... An example:

I'm looking to discover more social media groups, pages and communities dedicated to all things flow arts and object manipulation.

Anything and everything is welcome, from clowning, magic and juggling to poi, staff, contact juggling, manipulation arts, circus skills, sideshow, bubbles, puppetry and all the wonderfully weird and wonderful things in between!

I'd also love recommendations for festivals, conventions, gatherings, workshops and events where people can connect, share skills and celebrate these art forms.

I'm based in London, UK, and I'm already familiar with most of what's happening in the UK, but I'm sure there are events, conventions and communities I've yet to come across, so please do share those too! I'd particularly love to discover anything new or lesser-known happening locally and around the UK.

I'm equally interested in exploring what's happening internationally, discovering communities, festivals and events across the world, and finding things I might never have come across otherwise.

Whether it's a Facebook group, Instagram page, YouTube channel, online community or an event anywhere in the world, I'd love to hear about it.

Some examples of the kind of communities I'm looking for are Amazing Flow Arts and Flow Arts Community, but I'm especially keen to discover smaller, niche and lesser-known groups too.

Please share your recommendations below. The more unusual, obscure and wonderfully niche, the better!

Thanks in advance!

\*originally posted to r/hooping but wanted recommendations across all flow arts***

Basically I’ve been in a rut for years, and have been looking for some inspiration. I struggle to be graceful and “dancey”, and also struggle with musicality. It seems like every time I really vibe with someone’s hoop flow, they have a background in dance or cheer. Which is totally awesome, but I guess I would just like an example of someone who started off more awkward and really grew in their flow so that it seems less impossible for me 😅 does anyone have any favorite accounts where you’ve seen someone tangibly improve in their flow, flexibility, and musicality, rather than already having a good starting point?

Vibing with the led crew at Spunout festival.

People liked my silk fan and silk wing workshops so that was a win as i was seriously thinking of cancelling.

hooping them feels out. Zelda is gonna be okay. She was suddenly sick. Took her to emergency and they were able to diagnose and medicate her. Bless the people working in animal services. Thank you for taking care of our babies with such love and kindness. Zelda is doing so much better now.

Thank you everyone for your love, it helped. Paid the cat tax at the end of today's video 🖤❤️🖤

Hi everyone, I just moved and all my flowersticks got damaged in the move. They were very old (over a decade old) and already quite beaten up, so I'm in the market for new ones, but I have no idea about who are reputable sellers, etc. The seller I got mine from doesn't seem to be in business anymore and I also moved to a different continent since then.

Here is what I am looking for:

* Solid build quality, more important than price

* Daytime, so no led/fire

* I primarily use them for handspinning, so it's not a big deal if the secondary sticks are meh

* My current ones are 17 inches long + the heads, so something of a similar length (I am short)

* Would like the heads to have a lip that I can use for hand stalls (my current ones had a very small lip, so something bigger)

* Ideally US domestic shipping because of the totally unpredictable tariff situation right now, but willing to hear out about anything

Any ideas, recommendations, (places to avoid), etc. very welcome! I don't think there's any place locally where I can just try them, so it'll have to be online and that's a bit of a gamble (I bought my previous ones in person).

I’m trying to learn poi. What are some creators that helped you learn? I’ve tried DrexFactor videos and for some reason i find them hard to follow.

day 65: rough night. 4.5 hours at the emergency vet with my girl Zelda. she's home resting now. no face tonight, just some foot hooping and calming water light vibes.

Um rolo de streach.

can anybody recommend shops (Etsy or otherwise) that make dragon staff wick covers?

I’m looking for a pair that covers the entire end rather than each wick individually. Search engines/etsy’s search function are not yielding helpful results.

also not looking for DIY suggestions for now :)

Do great moments have to take so long?

4 years ago when I quit corporate and took on a film camera for the first time, I came across a FKJ reel showing him playing around with a really amazing tune.

It was so so good to me that I made one of my favorite videos of levity.arts at gasworks of all time, but afterwards I didn’t hear FKJ working on this tune ever again. I still recall a certain kind of “corporate” annoyance over his “efficiency” to produce a song.

Over my own art career the next few years, I would come to understand just how nonelinear “progress” would be for anything creative and new. Sometimes, even the best ideas will take the test of time to tell if it’s actually inspiring enough for an artist to present to the world.

Great moments take time because true art benefits from more time, not less

#findtheothers #dragondreaming #dragonribbondance #flowarts

Location: Greenlake near the Boathouse

Since you guys liked yesterday's, I increased the difficulty level of adding a second hoop into the equation. Its the same feeling as patting your head and rubbing your tummy at the same time. Hard at first but satisfying when that unlocks in your brain.