Do you use protection?

Hugh Hefner

After hearing some pretty shocking stories of people doing major fire juggling with less than zero protection (they were out of it while fire juggling) and after doing some things myself that aren't what you would call "recommended" I wondered how common this sort of thing was.

So be honest. When you do some fire work (poi, staff, diabolo, whatever) are you super safe, making sure that you're wearing non-flammable, unrestrictive clothes, have a bucket of water by your side, keeping the fuel well out of the way, always shaking off the excess fuel and so on, do you take a few precautions, perhaps some water near by, or do you purposely hit yourself on the head before beginning ?


Any stories of burning, injury and/or mutilation through fire juggling that you have would be well received.

Spodo Komodo

Well i know a guy who somehow managed to wrap a fire poi around his head!..yeah...
Put if out quick enough though. He was left with a big black patch on his forehead. hehe

Richard W

I set my hair on fire a few months ago but other than that nothing's really happened to me. Didn't notice it was on fire til I saw my reflection in a window. Was wondering why everyone was pointing at me.

amazingemmet

I think there's gonna be a fire show in trinity sometime soon come there and you'll get to see your fair share of people being set on fire etc

Richard W

Yeah I heard there's one on during freshers week. Should be a lark.