The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread

This space is for all those funksters busy improving their technique by learning new moves - made-up or traditional.

Tell us all about it! We love hearing about our fellow poiers/staffies/misc. toyers succeeding with new things
It's just hard to keep up with it all sometimes, so if we keep it together you'll be certain to get a little feedback.

here a pat on the back in advance from me

::flash enthusiastically pats your back::

How about my new fall on my ass and getting up while keeping a weave going move I was watching acouple breakdancers the other night and thought I'd give it a shot with poi :P

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We are all in the cosmic movie. That means the day you die you watch your whole life repeating for eternity. So you'd better have some good things happen in there and have a fitting climax. --Jim Morrison

Most Memerable crowd saying "Hey look that dude's gonna set himself on fire again!"

myst learned a new one lastnight, kind of came by accident, i think he was doing the butterfly and he got a stiffy and wrapped it on his @*ck. was pretty cool. LOL the one i did lastnight was pretty cool, i was doing a BTB butterfly and i started to bend at the waist like i was trying to touch my toes, so the bfly was parallel to the groun then i brought them both down on the down swing and wrapped them from behind on both of my legs. have fun with that one.

Ade marches in blowing her own trumpet:

Cracked the reverse 5 beat weave on Sunday night - wasn't even trying

(still got no flamin' idea how to do one going forwards though)

Nice one Ade!! You'll have to come to the park again soon since it's warming up a bit

poz - so were you bending over while Myst had the stiffy? (don't answer that!)

ade, try closing your eyes. worked for me except i had the opposite problem.

Thanks pozee, you made that fuck up not look so bad.LOL You got to understand, when I fucked up he was filming, and his witty self was quick to express to all that I tripped up on my Di*k. Good man pozee, good man. I have to agree with you though pozee, your wrap was SICK!!! Bastard's always learning something new, with a little edge.

Eric

I just mastered having confidence in my twirling in front of people on saturday night and started to enjoy being under everyones watchful and critical eye and it showed!

I also mastered looking like i was comfortable wearing tight black PVC pants...... :P

*looks at flashfire*

The sleeve of my top caught on fire in the middle of a performance but i just blew it out - frenzie and I were laughing our asses off about it - very hard to twirl and laugh at the same time.

um I mastered rvs 5-beat. but then I forgot it.

I'll have to try and learn it again tonight

Frenzie: I dont think I'll ever master the "Looking comfy in PVC pants" trick. I think i'll just settle on double fire neck wraps - its easier (and less risky)

Josh

I know I'm not entirely innocent, but I'd just like to point out that we should aim to keep this thread real...not a pissing contest ::

It's not a new wrap but I haven't done it for a while so I guess it's new. Josh, pozee, and Katinca, have seen me do it. (with glowsticks) do a btb butterfly and wrap both your wrist' at the same time, now come out, still behind your back, to an opposite direction butterfly. I was proud of myself for doing it every try tonight, I haden't done it forever. Sh*t, I haven't played with glowsticks forever, till tonight. What can I say, Pozee drove me to do it, I had to show him something, that dicks getting better by the second. LOL, tried to do a BTB 5 beat weave with fire tonight and woops, no luck. Luckily I was wearing a shirt. But Pozee saw the video of me doing it behind my back, so at least I have proof I've done it. Well people, I'll talk to you later.

Eric

Thanks Pozee, tried it last night with my eyes closed, and whatdoyouknow I cracked the forward 5 beat weave. Now I know why it's called a 'beat', as I found there was a definite beat/groove to get into, and then it flows really nicely. Coming back out of the 5 into the 3 is interesting, I found I almost stalled the poi, I had to slow it right down to come out of it.

Myst,

That BTB handcuffs wrap looks sick! I've been trying to do that one for ages and I just cant get it together...

How do you get it to wrap?

I've got the BTB butterfly to get into it no probs...

---whoops - I'll find a relevant thread----

dont hurt me Flash!!

::cowers::

Josh

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growls aggressively.

Just started practicing a suggestion in another thread, the TOOTHGRAB, with my staff (correct spelling this time Blackbird ).
[actually, I'll go back to that thread and put int hat I've done it)

It looks pretty pathetic at the moment, but I've managed to gum it (GUMGRAB doesnt sound so good but my teeth hurt if I use them), spin around a few times (2 x 360's in new staff-speak) and release it into a helicopterneck roll.

Looks ugly as hell, not polished and I'll get soot all over my face when not using my prcatice staff but it is a start...

(yay me, and you, and everyone else)

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Charles (INFERNO)

newdolbel@hotmail.com
http://juggling.co.nz

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Just perfected a really neat transition from the alternate butterlfy combo to a reg. butterfly to a windmill, bump shoulder stall, windmill, bkwds weave. cool little combo indeed.

i am not sure if this is a new move, but i was doing one meteor and one poi lastnight. tough sh1t i tell you. congrats ade, glad i could help. there is a whole new world o timing opening up to me now with the poi/meteor thing. but i love a challenge, and i think i am addicted to the meteor thing now too, oops.

okay lets try this again. havent done it with fire yet, because i just remembered it right now. doing the one handed butterfly, put the handles into your mouth and do the butterfly with your teeth, then you can wrap in on your leg a couple of times. beee careful, dont go chipping your teeth or anything.