Poi

What Is Poi?

Poi is a performance art in which a ball or balls suspended from a length of flexible material, usually a plaited cord, are held in the hand and swung in circular patterns.

Making Your Own Poi

Supplies

1. A pretty good sized scrap of fabric
2. Some yarn or string
3. A couple of old(or new, your call) shoe-laces
4. Two plastic baggies
5. Some rice or sand
6. Scissors and a ruler 

If using scraps:
Your fabric should be decently sized, I stick to around 12" across. Cut into even squares.

If your using ziplock bags, snip off the ziplocks so the bags will tie easier.

Now take your bag and fill it up with rice or sand until you think you've found a desirable weight.
If you end up not liking the feel of it later on then it's an easy fix.

Once your happy with the weight of the bags, give them a couple twists and tie them nice and tight with some string. Or if string isn't your thing try some small pieces of duct tape. Just make sure it's tight, you wouldn't want to be swinging and all of a sudden poof rice everywhere.

If using scraps:
Place the bag in the middle of the square and fold all four corners around the baggie. Take your shoe lace and tie the bag in nice and tight.

If you feel your poi might slip, try some colorful electric tape, duct tape or masking tape around tie just in case.

Your almost done!

Find the right length for you (usually about as long as your arm from the wrist to the armpit) and tie off a handle.
Finish off the handle by wrapping some electrical tape or duct tape around the cord if you want. Add ribbons, puffy paint and just have fun decorating your practice poi!

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Video Tutorial

Poi Spinning