Drex, who has a background in poi spinning, teaches us how to do cateyes with a hoop. From Wordnik.com. [Hooping.org | Blog | Cateyes] Reference
I spin poi and so understand the weave BUT trying it a bit on my hoops proved painful. From Wordnik.com. [Hooping.org | Blog | Three Beat Reverse Weaves] Reference
I play drums, spin poi, staff, and hoop at overton park every week and i have never seen another hooper! where are these girls?!. From Wordnik.com. [Hooping.org | Blog | Hooping Blossoms in Memphis] Reference
poi was created by the Maori people of New Zealand and the word poi can refer to the physical object, the choreography and the accompanying music. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
In Hawaii, crushed and fermented, and called poi, they were ever the main food. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
A little water is poured on it, when it is reduced to a paste called poi, which is then fit to eat. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference
In Tahiti it has been largely replaced by cassava starch in the preparation of 'poi'. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
Fresh and fermented 'poi' can be canned satisfactorily; the former product is filled into cans at 76. 6°C and retorted for 100 minutes at 98. 8°C. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 32] Reference
She had to confine herself pretty strictly to "poi" and hard work. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
THere were displays of Maori traditional songs, amd dances, Haka and traditional entertainment such as poi poi. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Some people call it double hooping, I’ve heard it called poi style hooping, I think I’ve also heard it called pooping. From Wordnik.com. [Hooping.org | Blog | Barry Clement: Super Hooper] Reference
Centered along Hamilton Street, the festival will showcase performers who spin "poi" flaming balls on a chain, set their hula hoops on fire and do burlesque acts. From Wordnik.com. [Columnist: Stephen Miller] Reference
A bill had been posted, and that the "poi," being a valuable food article, had been appropriated by the two individuals, who decamped. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
So maybe no sugarplums, but how about coconuts and poi. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009] Reference
A Hawaiian could not exist without his calabash of poi. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Ariosto has put it, lo fece natura, e poi ruppe lo stampo. From Wordnik.com. [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference
To foreigners poi has a most unpleasant, disagreeable taste. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
We can pound the kalo plant into sweetened poi before it answers. From Wordnik.com. [Humuhumunukunukuapua'a] Reference
With dismay, Nyuk Tsin realized that none of her poi was getting onto the market. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
It is excellent when boiled and sliced; but the preparation of poi is an elaborate process. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Then the natives got up, and smoked and eat more poi at intervals, and talked, and Kaluna and. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
There are steaming yams and sweet potatoes by the bushel, great piles of all sorts of fruit -- and poi. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
What a wonderful leap from calabashes and poi, malos and paus, to this correct and tasteful civilization!. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
A considerable row ensued, which brought Dr. Whipple into the yard with an edict: "No more poi to be sold.". From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Poor's 500-stock index dropped 5.40 poi nts, or 0.5%, to 1120.46, with the materials sector leading its decline. From Wordnik.com. [P] Reference
Except, of course, the little part about how she poi - soned Connor, then watched him die on the bathroom floor. From Wordnik.com. [Honeymoon]
I could not stand it, so I stole some poi - son that was used to kill insects in the field and kept it in my pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Samey Pol Pot: The Pol Pot Time] Reference
There were two bullocks, nineteen hogs, a hundred fowls, any quantity of poi and fruit, and innumerable native dishes. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Descriuendo poi il predetto Abilfadai Ismael luoghi della terra habitabile, che circuendo il mar Oceano tocca, dice cosi. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
The calabashes, which contained the pale pink poi, were of highly polished kou wood, but there were no foreign refinements. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
She sold the flowers as vegetables, the leaves for spinach, and the uncooked roots to the king's poi factory on Fort Street. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
If you can find poi, go for it -- almost everyone is curious how it tastes, and inevitably one person will adore it and finish the bowl. From Wordnik.com. [Stefan Beck: The Grog Days of Summer (PHOTOS)] Reference
Kimo, now weighing nearly three hundred and fifty pounds, would lumber over to the poi buckets, ladle himself out a quart or more and serve Apikela an equal amount. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
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