I bought my first set of poi back before YouTube even existed, so there was no crowd-sourced knowledge for me to tap into to teach myself. Just the UTTERLY USELESS instruction videos on a DVD that came with the set. I managed to figure out a couple of moves, but never progressed beyond that. After a few months of fooling around, I put them away and forgot about them until eight years later, in 2015...
OMG. When actress and model Rie Rasmussen says you're gorgeous, accept it! I was very honored to be introduced to her through a good friend - Rie was looking for women to feature for Broadly - Vice Media's newest vertical. It was a gorgeous afternoon, and I was feeling brave: this is the heaviest, and pudgiest I've ever been, and I don't care. And neither did she.