About Poi

Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body. Test body.

Have you ever felt called to improve your coordination, balance, and over-all physical ability? If you have, poi might be just the tool for you. It certainly was for me.

I developed a strong desire to explore physical movement when I was a teenager. It could have been the Bruce Lee movies, the myths about Shaolin Temple monks, or the Buddhist books about peaceful warriors, or maybe it was intuition (I'm not sure how these things work).

There is much debate about the dates and circumstances of the arrival of the Maori people on the island they call Aotearoa (aka New Zealand). Legend says the Maori arrived from the mythical homeland of Hawaiiki, and was discovered by the mythical figure Toi. Many scholars believe that the Maori began to show up from the eastern Pacific about 1,000 years ago, give or take several hundred years.

We love fire spinning, but we want to be clear: this is ultimately a poi site, not a fire spinning site. It's like juggling. Yes, you can juggle fire. Yes, juggling fire can be a beautiful way to express juggling. But it's not the only reason people juggle, and it's silly to say to a juggler, "hey, that was cool the way you stalled the ball on your ear, and then rolled it over your nose to your other ear... but how are you going to do that with fire?"