Here lies the glowstringing glowsticking progress(?) page of Lira, of Glowsticking.com. Practice times are very sporadic, and as such, she counts the day she officially began stringing in earnest to be June 3, 2008. Her first day of freehanding was August 18, 2008.

The day Lira decided to start glowstringing: April 12
The day Lira could actually find anything vaguely resembling glowsticks: April 18

attempt 1: April 18
time: 30 mins
learned: butterflies, basic wraps, and how to twirl things on strings.
began: 3-beat weave & trying to figure things out.
note: was using 4-inch glowsticks, as they were all that were nearby, and had no guidance whatsoever

attempt 2: May 16 (NJ meetup)
time: I only dared to try stringing for about 30 mins
learned: 3-beat weave, link catch orbitals
began: spirals.
note: first real session with 6-inch sticks. more or less learned on own but with pointers from NJers.

first major practice session: June 3
time: 2 hours
learned: spirals, orbitals, thread the needle, high (OTH) windmill
began: working on reverse 3-beat, buzzsaws, and flowers (and variations)

screwing around during birthday week:

June 4: learned corkscrew, 10 mins
June 5: learned low windmill, 30 mins
June 6: learned reverse 3-beat, 30 mins

practice: June 10
time: 30 mins
learned: just worked on transitions, reversing existing moves
began: btb 3-beat weave
note: never try learning btb moves when wearing a flowy skirt. Guys shouldn't have this problem.

NYC Central Park meetup: June 12
time: 2 hrs of practicing, give or take
learned: extensions, basic spins/pirouettes, fountains
began: crossers, airwraps, polishing orbitals, one-handed butterflies
note: thanks to many for the help, especially Kael, and Freakedeke and Last Singularity
extra note: talented poiists are brain-breaking.

practice: June 18
time: 30 mins
learned: butterfly crossers, one-handed butterflies
began: polishing transitions some more, messing around with some theory

NYC glowshop:  June 21
time: 30 mins
began: buzzsaw fountains thanks to Freakedeke

[one-month-ish gap] 

practice: July 16
time: 30 mins
learned: just polishing; mastered fountains
began: trying different wraps, polishing huggy crossers

[on a non-stringing note: mastered the orbit during this time]

practice: July 25 @ Cyber Raver 3.0
time: ~45 mins?
learned: forward btb wallplane weaves, both sides, btb 3-beat weave(reverse?)

practice: July 27
time: 30 mins
learned: forward 5-beat weave and a very sloppy reverse 5-beat, learned different arm angle for low windmills
began: reverse high/low windmills

practice: July 28
time: 30 mins
learned: polished all windmills & reverse 5-beat
began: reversing fountains

central NJ mini-meetup: August 1
began: experimenting with handles stringing, basic color switches

south Florida meetup: August 10
began: attempting to polish everything, working with more wraps

NYC glowshop #2: August 18
began: experimenting with freehanding (official day 1), using own concepts & improvisations; trying to understand butterfly weave, regular wallplanes, and variations on crossers; beginning to develop hybrid glowsticking (day 1)
note: thanks to Syphon, Zodiac, & Logic for pointers

practice: August 23
began: attempting to diversify freehanding, working on tosses; getting crossers and working on freehand transitions
note: thanks to Zodiac for a few pointers and suggestions

NJ end-of-summer meetup: August 30
began: messing around with freehanding even more, one-handed weaves, general GSC love

practice: Sept. 5-6
time: 30 mins
began: in freehanding, working on developing tosses and catches, stalls

weekly poi session: Sept. 14
time: 2 hours
began: doing weekly Sunday poi sessions. Taught a lot of people. Worked on my anti-spin flowers.

practice: Sept. 16
time: 30 mins
began: in freehanding, working on heli tosses and more fluidity. Started working on creating new freehand transitions-- not quite real hybriding, but something close to it

weekly poi session: Sept. 21
time: 1 hr
began: teaching more, learned how to turn while tucking poi instead of swinging them around me

practice: Sept. 25 evening/Sept. 26 morning
time: 15 mins
learned: chest stalls, freehanding; much greater fluidity with tosses

practice: Oct. 4
time: 30 mins
began: getting back into stringing

weekly poi session: Oct. 5
time: 1 hr
learned: how to reverse lots of things, fluidity & transitions with watermills, CTS, & extensions; UTA wallplane weave on one side

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further goals: learning to polish everything and figure out various variations, learn to reverse everything