I’ve had the nice experience of teaching my younger brother chess and as he made those bad blunders I started to remember when I played the same and made me happy. We like to review his games together and have a laugh at the shit moves and crack jokes like “killing a fly with a bazooka”.

So I would like to know what you guys enjoyed re-living and teaching.

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
    13·
    13 hours ago

    I’ve gotten really far as a fire performer, to the point where I sit on a nonprofit board as a safety expert and teach others. But we all start somewhere. I still remember getting horrible burns from a badly built contact staff with exposed metal as a newbie.

    I love teaching it. I love seeing the next generation of performers come forth

      • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
        3·
        12 hours ago

        If you’re US based, get a Dark Monk practice staff. They only run around $80 but work great for practicing. Nimbus grip sucks if you sweat or live somewhere humid, I recommend Om instead, and get different color endcaps so you can follow which end is which. Outside the US, the tariffs + shipping will double the price of everything.

        For actual moves and such, there’s a million tutorials on YouTube. Start with figure 8s, then move on to halos, conveyors, steves, and angels. Once you can get those all clean you can move on to intermediate things.

        Don’t get into fire without professional fire safety training. You want to get comfortable with your prop before you light it anyway.