Staff Contact Moves Book. Non-Definitive. - updated 10/06/06

Updated: Now with extra added moves, definitions, and extra added common sense!

see the PDF - http://mcp.tepookatoys.com/Staff.pdf
and RTF - http://mcp.tepookatoys.com/Staff.rtf
and Word doc:
http://mcp.tepookatoys.com/Staff.doc


Comments, extra moves and advice appreciated.

Thanks to ado-p for collating the alternative descriptions, and the people who wrote them for writing them. Sorry if this is in some ways plageristic...

someones been busy.....

table of contents and index? ya know you want to

edited to no longer have the final half, it's all just linkies now...

it would be funny if this thread was so large it crashed HoP...

how meg became a legend.

this rocks - cheers for all your time and effort mog.
will be reading it this evening

and she did also get much respect...

Hey there nice work!
I'm 'finally' just starting to learn contact stuff now... what great timing!

Written by: mcp

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The order mostly follows the order I learned.

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So for someone like me who is new at contact staff, would everyone recommend me to learn these things in approximately the same order as above?

I have a few videos of contact which'd help alot.
I don't know of anyone that lives within a couple thousand kms of me that does contact so i'm fairly on my own here...

This is by far the most in depth thread ive seen

Top effort Meg, thanx muchly for putting down you stick for a while and picking up the keyboard

**runs off to printer to put in another ream**

<attempts to do contact keyboard>

Respect to megs!

Good stuff. Should keep me going till summer! (Reading it all that is!)

Keep it up.
colm

very nice.............

awesome meg youre the best! now can you include video and paint by numbers and come here and show me how im not doing it right? lol! damn badgers and lemmings can do this better than i, but im still learning...thanks for all your efforts!

M

myself for still not having said thank you.
Sorry thought I did....40 pages of conpulsive viewing....thankles.

Wow...
Cheers for putting this together Meg (this is you -> )
I the thing I loved the most about it after having had just a a quick look that as well as being an incredible list of indivdual moves you have also posed some very crazy questions as to what may be possible in the future.
It all seems so ermmm, visionary...
:blows loudly but sincerly into the nearest improvised tissues:

you simple do a search for contact move and you get this. Thank the Gods of fire

I like searches.

I don't think I've ever done one.

*bump*

for strongsfire

Wow. That was some hard core in depth explaining. Thank you.

If you are starting to experiment with the leg try a leg globetrotter, one that goes either down, or back up. Depending on fleyibility, balance and strenth, getting it to go up the front of the leg is a hell of a lot harder, it took me months before I was able to hold my leg up high enough AND long enough to finish the roll without first falling over. A friend of mine (who recently finished a circus school) saw me practicing it, tried it and got it clean on the first time. He hasnt done it since and im still trying to convince myself it was pure luck.

What leg globetrotter! That sounds like the coolest thing ever!

I wonder if you can do an arm-neck-body-leg globetrotter....

easy

you just need legs attached to your shoulders

Goddamn!

How would the song go then?

Legs, shoulders, elbows and fingers, elbows and fingers!

da da dada da da da da daaaaaaa...

Legs, shoulders, elbows and fingers, elbows and fingers!

Well done with the tricks list....
So much to learn.... maybe I'll try and video all of the moves and stick them on website!

(predicted finish date... about 01/01/2020!!)

and to all!

well, meg, you were asking for this one:

'You all ought to know: This is an ellipsis: '...', it is not a full stop, it is it's own bit of punctuation, therefore to use an ellipsis at the end of a sentence you ought to a put a full stop after it, like this....'

But the apostrophe between 'it is...' and '...own bit of punctuation' shouldn't be there....

*cough*

I stole it from another site, and it's not the full definition....

oh it was about apostrophes. Well nobody really understands those, I mean how are you supposed to know hen you put them after an s, instead of before it? I just go on instinct....

You're not wrong about it being HUGE. It crashed my machine when I tried to load it

It's a good guide though - very useful methinks.

(now if only if I could actually DO some of these tricks )

sorry bout that.

also: HTML version: http://mcp.tepookatoys.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75&Itemid=12

not - yet - updated.

fuckking hell meg, thats a small book

i shall read..some day , maybe tomorrow, it being a sunday

much appreciaton for your dedication

This seemed as good of a place as any...

Meg- Your site kicks ass. It's helped hook several friends into learning .



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if , then stop , drop and

I've just been looking at the rest of Megs site. I'm speechless!!

A fantastic learning resource, and very cool to boot!

Top marks to ya!

bumpity bump.

*saved and printed*

I remember looking at this about a year ago and getting confused by the first three pages. I'm going to have another bash at it now!

Cheers Meg! you're a legend!

this rocks meg... now i just ned o put pictures to the words.... * video camera out and time to play*

nice referencing skills there meg, like did u actually write any of it

Like, more than you wrote. Biyatch. Plus different ways of explaining things help people learn. Poobrains.