Linking to playpoi.com is a great way to help us do better in search engine results. Even bookmarking playpoi.com helps! To make sure your links go a long way, here is our BRIEF TUTORIAL IN EFFECTIVE LINKING, which will teach you to support anybody you love....

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we can tell you about the cool things we do, which will make it much easier for us to do cool things. If you are already subscribed to the newsletter, make sure poilist[at]plapoi.com isn't getting sucked into your spam filters. If you don't know what a blog is, read our Blog Tutorial!

If you like our videos, here are some ways to help promote them!

If you double click on any playpoi video, you will go to the youtube page. Click the "share" link under the video, and it will offer you several ways to promote the video, such as posting the video to your Myspace or Facebook pages, Digg, Etc.

You can also grab the video URL or the embed code, and post it on any website, blog, forum, or in the body of an email.

You can also subscribe to our video feed, choose any video as a favorite, or add any video to one of your playlists.

All of this helps bring more people into the wonderful world of poi!

Our two DVDs: Scales of Poi, and Adventures in Poi: Moves help fund our artistic endeavors. Here are some ways to help promote them:

• Make sure to tell people about the DVDs, including your favorite poi gear shops.
• If you bought the DVD from homeofpoi.com, go back and write a review!
• If you'd like to show the trailer for Adventures in Poi: Moves on your myspace page or blog, follow these steps:

  1) copy (highlight, right-click, and select 'copy') the following code:

  <br /> <table bgcolor="#000000"> <tr> <td><center><a target="new" title="Adventures in Poi: Moves, New instructional poi DVD by Nick Woolsey" href="http://www.filmbaby.com/films/3432"><img border=0 src="http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/palidances/nick/vidtopper.jpg"></a><br><object width="425" height="344"><br /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B9VHTcIZZnk&hl=en&fs=1"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B9VHTcIZZnk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br></center></td> </tr> </table> <p>

  2) Go to "Edit my Profile" and paste (right-click and select 'paste') the code below any information you have typed in the box (by first left-clicking after everything else in the box)

  3) Click "Save Changes," then "View my Profile," and behold!

You can also enter the same code in a blog, bulletin, website, or any other form that accepts html!

We've got a whole gear section
where we post:

• Links to our own designs
• Videos about making your own gear
• Reviews of gear we like

If you shop at any of our favorite online poi shops, we get a percentage of anything you purchase, as long as you click through from playpoi, or use "playpoi" as your referral code, and that goes a long way in funding us. It's another one of those win/win/win situations, where you win twice!

You'll be able to poiticipate in many more ways once you've started digging into the website, especially everything "behind the scenes." Learn about who we are and how it all started, and The Plan.

Playpoi.com is designed to act as an interface between a group of artists (that's us) and the people who like what they're doing (hopefully you). By learning a bit about how playpoi.com works, you'll enjoy your relationship with us all the more.

We have traveled the world to track down the most enthusiastic poi innovators, and masters of arts that can contribute to poi. Coming to one of our workshops or retreats is good for all of us. Even better than just coming to a poi workshop or event is hosting one in your community. We'll come to you! You just have to get enough students together, or at least promise to massage our feet, or something.

We've recently created a Facebook Page on Facebook.com.

If you become a fan of the facebook page, and you'll have access to the discussion forums, event updates, social networking tools, and your friends will see that you're a fan. You'll also have a few ways to tell all your facebook friends about playpoi.com! :)

Yay! The Playpoi T-Shirts are finished and available at the SPREADSHIRT PLAYPOI SHOP. A huge thanks to Alex for making this happen.

Note: The shirts are from Spreadshirt, our favorite print-on-demand shop. They fill the order, not us. This means you get to choose from a wide variety of styles and colors, and we don't have to get bogged down in filling orders or paying up front. It's more expensive than wholesale printing so the current prices are as cheap as we can go. It's well worth it! Feel free to explore spreadshirt and send us any special requests.

Poi isn't Nick Woolsey's only talent. He's also a terrific writer, and Emails from (Over?) the Edge is his greatest achievement yet. This book will make you laugh out loud, and you'll learn a lot about your favorite poi artist.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the book, you can buy it now for $11.95USD!

BUY NOW FROM FILMBABY

Download the first few chapters as a .PDF.

Are you an artist or a creative poi spinner? There are lots of ways you can contribute to playpoi.

• If you're a musician, we're always looking for music to use in our videos, so send us a link to samples of your music.
• If you have an interesting pair of poi, make a show-your-poi video, upload it to Youtube, and send us the link.
• If you've purchased any of our gear, attended our retreats, or otherwise had a positive experience with playpoi, make a video testimonial and tell us about it!

Donating some actual cash is a very direct and effective way to support us. You can consider it a way to thank us for all the videos and photography we have given you, or you can do it to be a patron of the arts.

The easiest way to send us money is via Paypal

To aid your decision process, we have made up the following statistics:

• Patrons of the Arts are 35% more likely to have great sex on any given night (and 43% more on saturdays) than those who do not support the arts
• Two out of three Patrons of the Arts are more intelligent than one third of those who are not patrons of the arts
• 80% of those who become Patrons of the Arts lose 5-15 pounds within six months of their patronage. The amount of weight lost appears to be proportional to the amount of support given. Those who support the movement arts tend to lose weight from their legs, butts, and tummies, while those who support more classical arts like broadway musicals tend to lose weight from their feet and ears.
  

Do it! Do it! Hit the paypal button and send us something! Five bucks! Anything! The world will be a more beautiful place and you'll be happy you did it when we come out with the next video!