Class Description
Come learn how to spin a staff without gripping it with your hand! Welcome to the MAGICAL WORLD OF CONTACT STAFF!! We will be starting from the basics and working our way up the ladder to cover any contact staff move you want to learn!
Class will be divided based on skill level and participants will be encouraged to move between groups to challenge themselves and help each other learn. All skill levels welcome!
Instructor Bio
Spades is a graceful ninja based out of Portland, Oregon and has taught workshops and performed around the world since 2007. He focuses primarily on contact staff, double staff, contact swords, and staff juggling. He won the 2013 Ultimate Ninja flow arts video competition, was voted a “staff spinspiration of 2014”, was a featured instructor by the Flow Arts Institute in 2015, is part of the organizational team for Pacific Fire Gathering, and is a staff writer for Fire Arts Magazine.
Spades is also a proponent of “Social Circus”, or traveling around the world to teach circus arts to disadvantaged children. He did a 3-month tour of Thailand with SPARK! Circus in 2013 and recently completed a four-month tour with Performers Without Borders throughout India!
You can check out dozens of his instructional and inspirational videos on his YouTube
channel, Facebook page, and website under “Spinning Spades”.