New article on hat spinning.

Little Paul - 11/11/2014 09:38 - Parent #

Thanks for the hat spinning article, there's more info in there than I managed to find when I was researching it back in 2004 (I think I pretty much found the Roger Montandon article, and a couple of photos of various performers)

There wasn't the quantity of video available then that there is now, and I really struggled to get anywhere. Having watched various videos in the intervening years, I think the stick I was using was unsuitable, and my technique was erm... "sub optimal"

trickswithhats.org is offline at the moment (don't ask why, the whole thing makes me cross) but luckily archive.org is still a thing, and there's a copy of what I scratched together a decade ago here: https://web.archive.org/web/20131216004608/https://www.trickswithhats.org/spinning/

I mention it more for historical curiosity than because I think the advice is actually useful.

It's Him - 11/11/2014 12:42 - Parent #

If you follow this link (which is the photos of Romvention) then quite a long way down you will see someone 'hat spinning' a weighted cloth.https://m.facebook.com/michael.laing.338/albums/10154830280285517/?_ft_&__tn__=C
Nigel

^Tom_ - 11/11/2014 17:44 - Parent #

That would be a Dapostar.

I was quite disappointed when I found out that the Flying Jewish Pizza Carpets had 8 points and not 6.

Daniel Simu - 11/11/2014 20:28 - Parent #

Are dapostars truely as the dapostar website claims invented by some Spanish guy? I know my Chinese teacher learned many tricks with this 8 pointed thingy over 30 years ago (but without stick), and the Chinese schools probably copied that from somewhere too..
I am sure I have seen these cloths played with sticks like hats too, though I wouldn't know immediately where..

^Tom_ - 11/11/2014 22:41 - Parent #

I'm afraid I don't know. If you'd like me to guess, I'd say that the current modern incarnation/exact weighting was "invented" by someone Spanish.


I saw them for the first time at Berlin this year where there were some Spanish speaking people (maybe Spanish, maybe Mexican) with them (and workshopping with them). I think I've only touched one once or twice.

^ This was the first picture I've seen of them being used with sticks, otherwise they've always been used pizza-style.