DC finally came out of its deep freeze just in time for a warm MLK Day. I headed down to Dupont Circle for the day to enjoy the sun and do a little free spinning. Enjoy!

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Lots of requests lately for a fire vid, so here's one of me performing at an informal spin jam on Thanksgiving night. Note when I whiff a BTB 5-beat waistwrap and My ubersloppy diagonal plane attempts ;)

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Over the weekend I made a trip up to Pittsburgh to listen to a good friend spin some sick dubstep and while there I got to catch up with a few of my very favorite fire spinners. Here's Chris Rovo throwing out some incendiary tech at the after party.

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Over the weekend I made a trip up to Pittsburgh to listen to Mr. Jennings spin some sick dubstep and while there I got to catch up with a few of my very favorite fire spinners. Here's Conway busting out some gorgeous tech poi in the backyard at the after party.

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Over the weekend I made a trip up to Pittsburgh to listen to a good friend spin some sick dubstep and while there I got to catch up with a few of my very favorite fire spinners. Here's Grimm Zimmer doing what he does best on fans--some of the sickest fan tech I've yet seen.

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While the vast majority of the time I'm spinning, I'm either doing so to improvised sessions by drummers or canned music that's been selected by my fire performance troupe, I frequently find that those rare opportunities when I get to put on my own music for a solo performance are some of my best.

Jordan Campbell, 2008 fire idol winner and member of the Vulcan crew spins some poi Saturday night at Firedrums 2009. Look, he even does requests!

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Wish I'd caught him when his wicks were fresh, but even the stuff we was doing with them burnt down a little bit was amazing. This is Chris "Rovo" Bailey spinning a tool that as far as I know he has invented and explored: the double meteor. Crazy cool stuff but wicked difficult from what I can tell.

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Gah! Attack of the blurry! You can still make out some of the details of what Cyrille and Yuta were doing together. Incidentally if any of you out there have this problem with your camera, it turns out it can be fixed by swiping your hand real quickly in front of the lense, causing the camera to refocus.

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My friend Nicole had an acupuncture conference the week before Firedrums in the Bay Area, so she was able to join us for the fun. This is her second burn! She's been working hella hard the last few months and it was a huge treat to get to watch her light up for the first time. In the background you can see a cluster of firebreathers attempting to do seven in a row.

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