How to Make a Contact Ball

Step one
you can't make a contact ball. You could try but it is very difficult to make a perfect sphere.  This is OK because we leave in a world with many spheres. For example, a simple orange can be use to learn some basic contact moves. An orange is not the best option but dose work. local pet stores sell balls that can be great for contact juggling. When looking for a ball it should be from 300-500 grams and be bigger then a tennis ball. It is easier to start off bigger. Basket balls can be great practice. Overall the best option would be to find a random ball and try to learn some moves. If you feel like you could dig contact juggling buy a real contact ball. There only about $10-25 depending on what kind of ball you get. The Sil-x ball is great for beginners and not a bad price.

How to Make Poi
Making poi is super easy and cheap! All you need is water balloons, rice, and knee high socks. Colored socks are sick but any sock will work.

Step 1
Stretch the balloon by blowing it up and letting it deflate.

Step 2
Take the rice and  pour it into a balloon (a paper funnel can help) you want the balloon to be filled so it is around the size of a tennis ball. If you have a small water balloon you may need to use a pencil to push the rice down and then blow it up to make more room. Once the balloon is the right size tie the balloon.

Step 3
Repeat step two so you have two balloons of rice.

Step 4
Put rice balls in socks.

Step 5
Tie knots at the end of your socks. you may need to cut off some sock if there to long. Poi should be around the length of from your wrist to your shoulder.

Step 6
GO SPIN!!! and have fun.
If your having trouble getting started try watching some How to videos.

Contact Juggling  

Contact juggling is a form of object manipulation that focuses on the movement of objects such as balls in contact with the body. It is Awesome. Here is Cyrille Humen throwing down.

As you can see it's not as upbeat as poi, but what is great about the flow arts is they all connect in some way. When you learn how to contact juggle you are actually practicing for many flow arts. In my last post i shared with you glow sticking and fire poi. Well many of you would say that contact juggling and poi don't relate. So how could learning contact juggling help me spin poi? CONTACT POI, is it possible? Yes and Cyrille Humen is amazing at it! Here is Cyrille Humen throwing down again....but with contact poi.

Poi

If you've ever been to any electronic show before you have probably have seen those kids in the back rolling nuts swinging around glow sticks. Well that's a style of poi. Now, some of them are just swinging glow sticks around, but there are also people who throw down with glow sticks,like these dudes.

  At first i wasn't a fan of glow sticking or poi in general. I thought it was just i thing you did when you where rolling/tripping. It's much more then that though. As you will see it is art!! Here is one of my favorites, Micheal Parisi .

What are Flow arts?
Well if you ask wikipedia they are playful movement arts involving skill toys that are used to evoke the exploration of dynamic, flowing, and sequential movements.
Is Shaun white a Douche bag?
Yes! we all know that, but when it comes down to snowboarding he’s the shit! He has mad flow, skills, and in my opinion creates art.
Is snowboarding a Flow art?
It fits the definition.I would say yes it is but that's not what this blog is about. This blog is to show you the flow arts that don't require a half pipe or a thousand dollars in gear. Everything I will put on this blog is cheap and can be done at home.