carpet spinning?
chicken guy of akron ohio
In 3,000 Years ( or whatever that book is called)
I saw pictures of what looked like people spinning carpets.
It sounds reasonable enough and looks possible and maybe even fun.
Anybody out there who does this?
Any tips for a beginner?
-Chicken guy
ejb...@teleport.com
This is one of those low-skill/strong-effect tricks. It works best with
music or some distracting patter because there really isn't much to it.
It also gets boring fairly fast. None the less, it is great for gathering
a crowd if you don't have a giraff unicycle and torches.
The carpet can be any moderately heavy piece of material. Like, uh,
carpet. Prayer rug-size is good. For larger pieces, a double-thickness
of most any material with some reinforcement at the center bottom will
work. Of course, flashy is good. In many cities you can find Indian
materials with red, yellow, and green stitchery (embroidery it is not) and
sewn-in little mirrors. A six foot diameter circle of this stuff is as
much as you can handle. (6' of carpet is probably way too heavy unless
you are severely and terminally buffed.)
You can learn & practice with most any handy material. A three-foot long
.5" dowel with a rounded, waxed tip works fine with heavier material.
For small, light pieces you can use longer dowels. (Flashy and high is
better.) Lighter materials may benefit from edge-weighting--but it won't
take much to make it work. An extra layer of trim on the edge is fine;
fishing weights are semi-lethal.
=Eric
Tony Morrissey
ejb...@teleport.com () wrote
>chicken guy of akron ohio <cg...@nrv.net> wrote:
>>In 3,000 Years ( or whatever that book is called)
>>I saw pictures of what looked like people spinning carpets.
>>It sounds reasonable enough and looks possible and maybe even
fun.
>>Anybody out there who does this?
>>Any tips for a beginner?
>This is one of those low-skill/strong-effect tricks. It works
best with
>music or some distracting patter because there really isn't much
to it.
>It also gets boring fairly fast. None the less, it is great for
gathering
>a crowd if you don't have a giraff unicycle and torches.
Sometime ago I thought it might be possible to start a routine by
spinning a weighted jacket. With some imagination it could be
developed into a number of moves around the body ending up
wearing it. Maybe specially made with large sleeves. It might be
less boring than carpets. When I suggested it to a few people
they said I was crazy and it sounded the dullest thing ever.
--
Tony Morrissey 70763...@compuserve.com
KMJ1
In Disney-Epcot in FLA I saw a duo of carpet spinners.
Theirs were round velvet thick "carpets" a bit bigger than trashcan
lids. As far as I could tell, they were weighted at the edge and had an
inner circle of raised fabric (like a big doughnut between the fabric
layers) to make the spinning easier. They twirled them on their hands and
feet with no sticks like plate spinning.
Theirs was a syncronized act with some tossing back and forth, and high
tosses and a tumble run before recovery and continued spinning.
It struck me as a fairly simple skill, so the routining would be
everything if you intend to make it interesting - as that couple did!
Best, Keith
ejb...@teleport.com
Tony Morrissey <70763...@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
>ejb...@teleport.com () wrote
>>chicken guy of akron ohio <cg...@nrv.net> wrote:
>
>>This is one of those low-skill/strong-effect tricks. . .
>Sometime ago I thought it might be possible to start a routine by
>spinning a weighted jacket. With some imagination it could be
>developed into a number of moves around the body ending up
>wearing it. Maybe specially made with large sleeves. It might be
>less boring than carpets. When I suggested it to a few people
>they said I was crazy and it sounded the dullest thing ever.
Couldn't be any more dull than dancing around in a balloon-suit made in
the shape of a cube, or bounce-juggling a tune on a floor-level oversized
keyboard.
It ain't what you got, it's how you shake it: So, do your other routines
kill? What I mean is, if your performance skills are well-honed and your
stage persona genuinely appealing, then success and fame beyond your
wildest dreams is probably a just matter of trying out a million different
things a million times in a million combinations and finding the ones most
satisfying and to you *and* your audience.
The other route is to stick to "The Stuff That Always Works," which can be
fun. But if you're thinking about weird stuff like jacket spinning, then
you probably won't be satisfied with TSTAW.
=Eric
(who once *started* with a crowd of 150, and chased them all away)
tsodik...@mail.ru
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>
> Anybody out there who does this?
> Any tips for a beginner?
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> In 3,000 Years ( or whatever that book is called)
> I saw pictures of what looked like people spinning carpets.
>
> It sounds reasonable enough and looks possible and maybe even fun.
>
> Anybody out there who does this?
> Any tips for a beginner?
> -Chicken guy
tsodik...@mail.ru
> ejb...@teleport.com () wrote
> >chicken guy of akron ohio <cg...@nrv.net> wrote:
> >>In 3,000 Years ( or whatever that book is called)
> >>I saw pictures of what looked like people spinning carpets.
> >>It sounds reasonable enough and looks possible and maybe even
> fun.
> >>Anybody out there who does this?
> >>Any tips for a beginner?
>
> best with
> >music or some distracting patter because there really isn't much
> to it.
> >It also gets boring fairly fast. None the less, it is great for
> gathering
> >a crowd if you don't have a giraff unicycle and torches.
>
> spinning a weighted jacket. With some imagination it could be
> developed into a number of moves around the body ending up
> wearing it. Maybe specially made with large sleeves. It might be
> less boring than carpets. When I suggested it to a few people
> they said I was crazy and it sounded the dullest thing ever.
>
> Tony Morrissey 70763...@compuserve.com
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