Poi Spinning Basics with Pele's Element

Featuring shireen press and Delpha Turley

"Poi Spinning Basics" is an essential guide for the beginning fire dancer. As the popularity of fire dancing grows worldwide, so has the demand for instruction that illuminates the dynamic movements of poi spinning.

Highly sought after as teachers, Pele's Element has developed a clear, concise and informative style of guiding people of all ages from basic levels to advanced skills, including fire safety and performance.

Known for their fluid style and challenging partner moves, shireen and Delpha are recognized leaders in the Portland, Oregon fire community.

What people are saying about Poi Spinning Basics with Pele's Element

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I can't praise your teaching style enough. Thank you, Thank you. Thank you, for creating such a fantastic DVD. I've learned so much and I've only had it for one day.
-Jeannine

I am new to poi and just bought your training video. I am AMAZED at how quickly I was able to learn the moves from your video! Your teaching style really lends itself to learning and I have learned how to weave, turn, and focus more on planes than I was able to before!
Just a big fat THANKS to you! I can't wait until I am ready for FIRE!!
-A-delle

I received my Pele's Element video yesterday and of course I sat right down and watched it! I love it, you guys make the hardest stuff so simple. You have a gift for explaining movements in such simple terms that it's impossible not to understand. Wonderful!!!
-Jaimie

and from JUGGLE Magazine:

Several informal videos and a number of books and pamphlets on poi spinning have surfaced in the last few years. I've written here about the best of them, and tried to introduce the art form to jugglers. This is the last one I'll need to do for a long while because it quite thoroughly covers the last niche left in introducing and instructing poi to the novice spinner.

Nevertheless, we now have a video that covers all of the basics of poi, from beginning to end, and turns any willing novice into a journeyman spinner, capable of holding their own in any gathering of spinners.

That is quite an accomplishment. Had an equivalent instructional video been available to jugglers in the 1950s or '60s, the standard of excellence today might be seven clubs rather than five.

Notice that Poi Spinning Basics concentrates entirely on the details: the specific moves and the transitions between them. It carefully establishes the base of skill needed for each trick, builds to the next level of related difficulty, and then makes that the base of further instruction. This kind of curriculum development makes perfect sense. Learning is quick and easy, and each new skill is offered in a way that feels natural and effortless.

-Eric Bagai, JUGGLE Magazine May/June 2005