Throwback to my very first glorbiting video with an Orbite from Emazing Lights and 1 mode gloves.
This is my flow story!
I bought my first pair of gloves from ACEN (anime convention) in May, 2014 after my friend told me about gloving randomly one day. I lost one of the gloves that night and ended up dancing around with 1 glove and an LED pacifier. A month or two later, I bought crappy gloves off of Amazon and would dance around waving my hands in cool patterns, not realizing gloving required more intricate movements. Around October 2015, I began finding gloving groups on Facebook, joined them, and started going to Emazing Lights hosted events. My ffjend also told me about Emazing Lights selling gear and I bought my first pair of one mode gloves. I then recorded my first video of me dancing around my living room with my karate uniform while waving my arms around to create cool light trails. In January 2016, I saw Allazo dancing around a dance studio orbiting and was inspired to go to Emazing Lights, purchase my first orbit, and danced around my living room with my orbit. Shortly after that, I saw that you could use your gloves and orbit together and thus started glorbiting. I soon after found the Facebook groups for orbiting. After watching many videos/tutorials and practicing a bunch in my living room, I began posting videos on Youtube. After I left my job, I was stuck having to work a lot and found myself unable to attend events, meetups and shows. I wanted to find a way to get involved in the community while still pertaining to my goals of performing and in May 2016, I booked my first live glorbiting performance in Chicago. I went to a few open variety shows and even got the opportunity to give a light show with one of my literary performances. In August 2016 with less than a year of glorbiting under my belt, I won my first local talent contest. I then found myself in another rut having to work a bunch and was unable to book any live performances or interact with any flow artists, but now it's time to give time for me and my passion for performing and have 3 live shows booked in a month span.
I may be a fully self taught flow artist, I may see flow arts through a different lens with my stylistic views, I may be taking an alternate route with my flow arts compared to what I mostly see around and I enjoy where this is going. I hope to continue to post videos, perform live on (Chicago) stages, win talent shows, and my want list is to maybe get sponsored by a light show or orbit company and become a part of a flow troupe/team while expanding my knowledge of flow arts. I also hope to attend more fests and flow meetups!
What's your flow story?
https://youtu.be/FlnPEv0KLZM
