Fire Poi, Poi, Fire Chains, Fire Dancing, Fire Twirling

Fountain

This is a chase/windmill/chase/windmill and-so-on combination which looks amazing. Once you've learnt both the chase and the windmill, you can then mix the two together into a longer, more complex move, which allows the chains to move in various different planes around your body.

How to Make the Moves...

The Fountain

*Starting the fountain:* The method in the first four images below uses the chase as it's starting point, and shows one of the ways that you can move from the chase into the windmill - a key move in the fountain.
	Shown left is a position from the chase, where the chains are about to move from the left side back over to the right side. The left-hand chain has just passed up behind the twirler and sits at the top of it's circle. The right-hand chain is just about to twirl up behind the body.
	Instead of allowing the left-hand chain to move over to the right side, you're going to make it perform a circle behind your back. The circle of the right-hand chain pivots forward a little, so that the circle of the chain comes in front of you.
	The left-hand chain carries on down behind your back, whilst the right-hand chain comes up in front of you.
	The left-hand chain continues it's behind the back circle. The right-hand chain reaches the top of it's circle. Instead of letting it go to your right-hand side, you make it too move into a circle behind your back. You are now in the windmill, and can carry the windmill on for as long as you like.
*Finishing the fountain:* Listed in the last four images below is one of the methods for moving out of the windmill and back into the chase.
	In the windmill, the left arm is coming to the top of it's circle, with the right half a turn behind it.
	With the left-hand chain at the top of it's circle and the right-hand chain at the bottom, you're primed to move out of the windmill and into the chase.
	The left-hand chain is about to move down across the front of the body instead of behind it, and the right-hand chain is ready to go up and behind the left-hand side of the body.
	The left arm moves down across the body, beginning again the chase sequence, and the right arm moves up and behind on the left hand side of the body.

Tips:

Practice twirling the chase from forwards to backwards without having to move your feet. Do the forward chase on your left-hand side, and the backward chase on your right-hand side. At the point of change, where the chains move from twirling forward to backward, move into the windmill - first both hands perform a circle in front in split time, then a circle behind. As the chains return to the front, move into the backward chase.
The thing to remember with the fountain is that you can move from the chase to windmill pretty much any time that you use a cross-over during the chase, or whenever you change from twirling the chase backwards to twirling it forwards.
The variations that are possible with this move are pretty much the same as those available for either the chase or the windmill. The other key thing to note is that you can move into the fountain from from either the chase or the windmill.

The Fountain... moving from the chase to the windmill

The Fountain

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