Fire fan
Fire are subjects that are normally constructed of solid metal and wick. They are used to fire dance and fire performances.
- 3.1 circles
- 3.2 corkscrew
Construction and use
Fire are subjects that are used primarily for performances of fan dance with fire. They burn with three to seven flames at the end of the rods / struts. The ends of the struts are to wick wrapped with tape, which are dipped into liquid fuel such as lamp oil or kerosene. After igniting the flammable liquid burns. The wick is often made of aramidhaltigem tissue, which does not burn itself, but the liquid fuel absorbs, which then burns like an oil lamp. After the first fire, the tissue turns black. The flames burn for about 3 to 6 minutes, depending on how much liquid fuel has picked up the wick. Before igniting the excess liquid fuel should be thrown out with the help of containers to avoid contamination. The wick consumes only slowly during firing. The fire compartments can be similar to other Fire Juggling ( fire poi, etc.) depending on the quality of the band ignite the wick up to 1000 times.
Types of fire compartments
A distinction is tight compartments and hinged compartments.
Fixed fire compartments
Fixed fire compartments are built in different versions. They will vary in length of the struts, they can be between 40 cm and 60 cm in length and in the number of windings of the wick to the struts. This is between three and seven. The different flame sizes, depend on the width of the wick strip. The solid skeleton is mostly made of steel or aluminum. Mostly one or more rings in the center or at the lower end of the fan are installed. This allows rotations around the middle finger ( Spinns ) or thumb. A special type of fixed fire fan is the cable trays. Here is a wick rope is attached between the ends of the individual struts, which burns as a whole.
Folding Fire Fans
The folding fan can be folded and therefore have no ring. Rotations around the finger with these subjects are therefore not possible. Folding compartments offer the opportunity this unfold during a performance and get back to work together, so that at the beginning of a large flame is visible, which then fans out into many small flames and vice versa. Some folding compartments can be opened up to 180 degrees. It is thus with two compartments, which are held over a fire circle also called "sun", produce.
Many fire players build their own subjects and vary in this case. There are some attempts to construct a stable hinged compartments.
Tricks
The possibilities of the fan game are varied. Dance routines result combined with technical tricks a work of art. Some variants of the Poispielens or rod rotation or double-rod rotation are possible even with drawers.
Circles
The fan is rotated a half turn before hand and then folds to the wrist backward and the rotation goes past the wrist on, then is turned back before the wrist. The result in this case by the movement of a small circle of flames. The circular movement can be done in a clockwise and counter-clockwise. Where the counter-clockwise direction is unfamiliar and therefore somewhat difficult to play. Variation: The movement is extended by his arms, so large circles arise.
Corkscrew
As in the windmill when Poispielen a fan is similar to the corkscrew pulled up in front of the body, shot behind the head and the other subjects follows. This creates a fluid movement that looks just very impressive with flames.