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Are you coming to Miamisburg (Whirl Festival and Nats 2018)?

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Author Topic: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition  (Read 49518 times)

Dick Stohr

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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #180 on: August 27, 2018, 07:06:56 PM »

Just back from Ohio. WOW What a weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to all but a very special THANKS to Mike for all he does  to make it happen.
It was really good to put faces with names and handles on the board.
Hope everyone else traveled as safe as we did. Good to be home, but even better to have been there!
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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #181 on: August 27, 2018, 08:47:42 PM »

Looks like I missed a great time! Glad my tops were there anyway! I am missing them, but there are more to come!
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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #182 on: August 28, 2018, 07:31:23 AM »

Hey Don!  Your tops had a great weekend.  They were out of their boxes and spinning all over the place.  They not only were out to play but they also were cleaned up a bit.  How nice to have that good old Rochester earth here in Miamisburg.  There were so many kind top spinners here and they all went around visiting your little friends.  Some liked your tops so much that they adopted them and now they are in places like New York, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Wisconsin, California and even the Phillipines.

I have slowly been trying to find ways to gather them together in groups so they might be easier to find.  I really like the clear tubs that are a step down from the large size.  That way they can be seen through the sides and one can also dump the box out on a table fairly easily.  There are four full boxes of those loose tops right now.  Peg tops still in wrappers that can be used to teach others how to throw are in one big cardboard box.  Plastic toy top items are in another big box and I can get to them to make more top friends.  There is one large box of optic tops and several boxes of yogo strings.  I plan on putting all the games in clear long shoe containers that are designed to fit under the bed but I will fit them out in the hall of fame to keep my wife happy.  The pump tops will be boxed up today and I have friends who want them and will love them.  Gyroscopes are in one place.  Dreidels are in another place.  I need new clear containers for Japanese tops, historic tops and other odds and ends that I am searching through.  And, of course, there are three big boxes of giant wood flipovers with launchers from Switzerland.  So far, that is my first major report on your happy little friends.
« Last Edit: August 28, 2018, 07:59:40 AM by the Earl of Whirl »
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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #183 on: August 28, 2018, 10:30:49 AM »

Thanks again for hospitality mike. Here’s from mound in miamisburg

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the Earl of Whirl

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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #184 on: August 28, 2018, 12:52:28 PM »

You made it up there!!!  Very good.  You are ahead of me.  I have not spun a top up there.  You have inspired me.
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ta0

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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #185 on: August 28, 2018, 03:19:53 PM »

Looks like I missed a great time! Glad my tops were there anyway! I am missing them, but there are more to come!
You should have been there Don, curating your tops. But you were in spirit.
More to come!  :o

Here is the full group photo, taken by Jay:



Starting from the left, back row:

Mike (the Earl)
John M.
Owen
Dale
Dick
Austen
Joe M.
Don (mailman)
John B.
Tom K.
Mark H.
Jose
Eli
Mike (shootist)
Renee
David (butterfingers)
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Rebecca
Jim N.
Kirk
Rachel
Steven (softspin)
Val

What a nice group of people!  :)
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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #186 on: August 29, 2018, 01:00:34 AM »

With Don's collection at the Church, we didn't do the traditional visit to the Hall of Fame. But at the insistance of Mike I donated the cap (with some missing material) that I used in my freestyle in Tokyo. It will join Matt Ritter's cap  :D Austen also made a donation to the HOF. Any guesses?


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the Earl of Whirl

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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #187 on: August 29, 2018, 08:17:37 AM »

Ha ha!!!  I love it.  What a great story!
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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #188 on: August 29, 2018, 08:44:06 AM »

I see it!  ;)

He couldn't get Eli to join in?   ;D
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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #189 on: August 29, 2018, 01:49:26 PM »

Among Don's collection there were a few things that were not tops, but were still fun:





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the Earl of Whirl

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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #190 on: August 29, 2018, 03:34:49 PM »

I was nervous about those videos showing up.  Thanks for keeping them short!!!

Today's report is that the last table has been taken down in the hall and most everything is back to normal there (except for a few items on bulletin boards, the top Christmas tree and the multi-level top target).  My car is packed and ready for the Hall of Fame.  My office is also quite packed but also slightly functional.  I am hoping for more good moving tonight and tomorrow.  I think most of the pressure is off of me now and I can move these last few things in my office bit by bit.
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Eli Hickerson

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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #191 on: August 29, 2018, 04:53:25 PM »

I see it!  ;)

He couldn't get Eli to join in?   ;D

I have some alternate plans for my luscious locks.
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ta0

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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #192 on: August 29, 2018, 09:22:21 PM »

I see it!  ;)

He couldn't get Eli to join in?   ;D

I have some alternate plans for my luscious locks.

For those who may still be scratching their beards trying to solve this hairy puzzle, here's a photo from Jay of the brothers at the beginning of the festival:



This is not the first organic material in the Hall of Fame . . .  ::)
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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #193 on: August 29, 2018, 09:39:56 PM »

More hair (JohnM!):



Even Jay:



I wonder where were shootist and myself during this hair growth phase  :-\  ;D
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tkunkel

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Re: Miamisburg 2018 Stage for competition
« Reply #194 on: August 30, 2018, 12:06:57 AM »

Thanks to everyone who was involved in putting on the festival, especially Mike, who worked very hard to make this event happen.  The top collection was amazing and really fun to look at and it was awesome to take a couple souvenirs home.  We had a really good time with all the top throwers and met some amazing people.  Look forward to seeing everyone again.
 
Thanks to Jim for helping me learn to juggle and Eli for teaching me how to throw the flat disc top (I forget what this is called).  I liked the flat top so much that I picked up one from John M, who gave us an amazing tour of his top making operation.  Thanks for the tour John.   
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