Durbs
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As in, when you just pick up your poi and you just "spin" them - what do you do whilst thinking about tricks or idly spinning them?
I always resort/return to low-reels - no idea why. I practically never do 3-beat weaves anymore, if I want to "fill" space, it is always low reels, likewise when I first pick up poi, it's the first "move" i'll do and if I'm talking whilst spinning - again it's
always low reels 
As for why - I'm think it's because it just feels really nice, keeps the planes neat (in performing), it's easy to turn with (but then so are weaves...), doesn't interfere with eye-level so I can talk over the poi and meh - I don't know. But I've been doing it for years now...
Just wondered what everyone else does - and how they think it reflects their styles...
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07/06/05 10:34 AM
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whoot, me first!
3 beat weave when im moving and low reels when Im talking, i love low reels too, and i love turning them!
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07/06/05 11:10 AM
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Let me also chime in on my love of the reels...only when I'm moving though and it is also usually the first move I do when starting a spin. My "having a conversation" move though, is isolated underhand ttn.
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07/06/05 11:18 AM
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Yes on the low reels, but i tend to just go fwd3bt to rev3bt and back again in random lazy circles... Occasionally I'll throw a windmill in if I get bored...
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Gav486
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07/06/05 11:29 AM
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What kind of low reels? Butterfly ones for me.
If I'm not doing that, I'm doing air wraps. Just the same air wrap over and over; like twiddling my thumbs...
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TheBovrilMonkey
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07/06/05 11:57 AM
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Chalk up another for the hip reels.
More specifically, follow time same direction reels, none of this newfangled butterfly or split time malarky for me 
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07/06/05 12:21 PM
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Reels! So comfortable.
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Dunc
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07/06/05 12:31 PM
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And I hardly ever do reels 
I don't think I have one, but maybe I've just not noticed before. Durbs, I've span with you, what's mine? Sometimes like Gav I'll do air wraps over and over "like twiddling my thumbs"  What a perfect explanation!
Iso weaves are nice but more of a current move than a base move.
Barrell rolls perhaps?
umm....I'm stumped. Dunno
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07/06/05 01:43 PM
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i have several, depending on my state of mind, airwraps qre pretty good ones to do while having conversations,, but i usually start off in butterfly tthread the needles if im picking up the poi from cold.
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07/06/05 02:20 PM
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Reels here too... Switched from the weave ever since I learnt it.
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07/06/05 03:46 PM
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typically when i start cold i do low split butterflies or when im talkin usually a slow lazy forward 5bt...not sure why, but i find it more comfortable than a 3bt.
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07/06/05 04:09 PM
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Written by: TheBovrilMonkey
Chalk up another for the hip reels.
More specifically, follow time same direction reels, none of this newfangled butterfly or split time malarky for me
Though sometimes I opt for a hip level butterfly while talking, or basic escalator while thinking (slowly move one poi up one side of the body while the other goes down) just cause it's pretty, easy and dramatic if I am performing.
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07/06/05 08:57 PM
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base move ... hmm ... getting on one leg ... fall over ... try again ... fall over ... and spin again 
reflects my style 
andy
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07/06/05 09:00 PM
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btw . . . just wondering what kind of atomic hyperloop Revs "base" move would be  
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07/06/05 09:03 PM
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Written by: Dunc
umm....I'm stumped. Dunno
Dude yours is definatley isolations, either buzzsaw or weave, its the first thing you do believe me
i say that coz every bit of footage i have of you thats what your doing
As for me - its butterflys, with stalls left right up down, whever they stop........
Good thread Durbs, id never really thought much about it 
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coleman
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07/06/05 09:47 PM
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mills mess
what?
oh right yeah, poi... 
butterfly hip reels are definitely the one - the poi don't cross your line of sight and you can face the person you're talking to all the time.
2bt weaves also sit nicely on your hip whilst having a chat.
when i'm thinking hard but still spinning (like those few seconds of thought before you go on to try another new movement), split-time wheel plane side circles are very comfy
the move i tend to fall back into when i'm not thinking at all are front waistwraps with an extra circle on the right.
weird.
good thread mr durbs.
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07/06/05 10:10 PM
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Definately Hip Reels... not butterfly ones though, just normal, standard hip reels :
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07/06/05 11:42 PM
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outward hip reels
which I think are different to butterfly because they don’t cross.
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07/06/05 11:44 PM
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3 beat weave, really really fast. No, wait, I'm not american am i?
thread the needle weave, nice slow and relaxed
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08/06/05 12:02 AM
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I had to think about this a lot, because although I'm also a natural reeler and airwrap thumb-twidler, I also go though phases of idle moves and it depends where i am...
used to always do:
small corkskrew in one hand
various stop wraps
isolations
currently always mixture of:
pendulums and isolations plus occasional reels
great thread durbs
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08/06/05 12:49 AM
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Another hip-reeler...mixed up with hand-cuff wraps & airwraps.
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Trippie Hippie
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08/06/05 02:28 AM
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Never posted in the poi section before....
Mine would be, erm, Oh! isolated buzz saw thing, its a buzzsaw, infront of you only side ways on, as in runs parrell with your body. If that make any sence at all!!
Loads of love
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Durbs
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08/06/05 03:17 AM
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Er - for all those people who've said "buttefly low reels" - I think you'll find those are called "low waves"
Reels aren't butterflies
Right - I'm going to see if I can turn this into a poll
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coleman
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08/06/05 03:48 AM
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what do you need a poll (pole?) for?
next you'll be saying a cross-follow isn't a weave...
cole. x
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Rev
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08/06/05 03:59 AM
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Written by: I love Texas
btw . . . just wondering what kind of atomic hyperloop Revs "base" move would be
I can't even do atomic hyperloops.. lol.. so I guess I can't use them for a base.. I do reels a lot... I don't know if I would call them my base move.. I mean I use inversions as much as I use reels, but I think its mainly because of how versatile they are.. I mean I can do a ton of things with each of them, so they provide a nice base to fall back on.. and since they are transition moves, they really help morph in and out of whatever I am doing/ want to do.. I've tried really hard to break myself of just wraps when I'm bored, inbetween patterns, or talking..
but to answer the question specifically, I just use reel or inversion combinations.. its not s the same thing over and over, and it keeps me occupied without thinking.. whihc freres me to talk without getting a glowstick in the face..
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