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

Just worked out a turn with one poi going between my legs, and the same move but with poi contra rotating. Nothing that looks overly fancy (in fact, I think if you weren't concentrating you probably wouldn't notice the difference between this and a normal turn), but feels good and adds a bit of variety. Just have to work on it with the poi entering from behind now.

J

Yay! I got the 5 beat weave today. I was just randomly waiting for a friend, and boom, it clicked. I went and did fire about an hour later, and did 5 beat with that, but tried a second time and nailed myself. Oh well, it was funny.

Congrats Calvran.....I know how good it feels cause I just got the same move Me so proud of maself...now on to the reverse five beat.

Not sure of the name for this, but I managed to do the split btf with one rotation behind right, front, behind left, front, behind right......
Nice move, it's a supa smooth move when flowing!!
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Peace

[ 27 May 2002, 10:34: Message edited by: FireMorph ]

Alright, this is pretty elementry, but i've never seen anyone do it, and it looks cool, so here it goes. When spinning backwards you can easily wrap your string around your hands 1x or 2x to change length. Then you can spin rapidly, and do quick double bicep wraps while in a weave, and it looks like you are working with nunchucks, then while doing a forward weave you can unwrap one hand to create a weird effect where you see the weave grow from this small "illusion", to an "illusion" with one large side and one small side, or to an "illusion" that goes suddenly from small to large if you unwrap at the same time. It's harder to unwrap while spinning, but it looks much more interesting. Have fun playing with this idea, which is really only for glowstickers, but if you wanna try it with fire be my guest. Peace and love! everyone have a good summer. i REALLY wanna use some of those cool smilies, so here I go, please pay no attention to them. (My favorite )

-later johnny -tallicaburton-

Yeah, I got the Mexivan Wave and Horizontal Mexican wave last night
*runs away twirling his balls*

*bump*

It's a shame I can't say I've learned a new move, but I didn't want this thread to get lost..Perhaps some other people could leave some of their new moves..

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Well, I am kind of excited by all of the new "flowing" wraps and wrap combinations that I have come up with lately. (READ: Not invented, but made up without any kind of influence or ideas other than my own.)

I listed them out on the second page of CRD's Definitive Listing of Wraps... topic.

Oh, yeah! I got to meet and burn with the infamous Joe Mama last night. Really cool guy. I am getting ready to go meet up with him again before he leaves town. Aaaaaall-riiiight!

oh yeah? tell him everybody from tantien says hi! thanks! what a rock star!

Hey, Arashi. Have you ever met Cindy Mack? She has spun with Tantien before, but not been part of the group. Or Lucinda Roberts? Both of them are from here. Lucinda disappeared last year, but I hang out with Cindy almost all the time. She says great things about y'all. (Sorry for the southern slang! )

Speaking of, what would it take to get a chance to travel down there and burn with you guys? I saw Tantien at the Tantra festival 2 Septembers ago in Charlotte @ the Metrolina Expo. Freaking amazing! I don't remember who it was, but I traded one of the girls one of my yellow-with-red-tail Zuni poi for one of her red-with-yellow-tail Zuni's in the blacklight tent beside the van. See if that rings a bell with anyone.

Anyway, for the sake of not starting a private conversation on a thread, I would appreciate it if you would email me. I would like to talk with you some more.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to track Joe down tonight. He was in town touring with the Tiny Invisibility Circus at my friend KC's bar, Fat City. They leave tomorrow, and I think they were partying before they left. Very cool guy. Hope to see him again sometime.

well, i'm a space cadet, and it's hard to remember all the names of people we play with. ahh, being a rock star is tough, huh? but they sound real familiar, for sure...
but anyway, i've got two words for you all...
BURNING MAN. we'll be there in full force this year, probably hangin with the El Cirque crew, nextdoor. look for the blue bus, i hope it gets there.

someone was foolish enough to teach me 'the fountain'

... well...um...at least a variant of it!

As this is the "I just learned a new move thread", I'd like to post that after alot of pain and twisting that I don't think I was made to do, I finaly got something that resembles the btb 5-beat weave! The motions are right, the planes suck, and it dies after only a couple revolutions, but there it is

did you start it as a bback weave or did you go from another move to that ?? ...... ive tried but i can't transition properlly to a bback weave ....

I start by doing a 3-beat btb weave (which I can transition into from just about anything). Then comes the painfull twisting part known as 5 beat.

Oh yeah, also learned loads of cool btl stuff this weekend. Met some guy who had just recently taken up poi but has been spinning clubs for 6 years. He had tried btl stuff before but never got anywhere so gave up, thinking it was impossible. Then I did a few basic moves which sparked him to try all sorts of crazy things that he could do with the clubs with poi instead. Some of them look prety good

[ 08 July 2002, 07:02: Message edited by: Jaeden ]

Well that wasn't too hard, and my forward (shin-basher) 5-beat btb weave is smoother than the other one

I got the 5 beat weave/chase (forwards) last night sort of

I GOT THE BTB WEAVE
YAYAYAYAYYAYAYAY!!!

That is all... curse the reverse BTB weave

hehehehe

happy swingin!!

Looooads of new moves over the last week or so... Forward 4 and 5 beat weaves, BTB figure 8 (almost a weave), bouncing one poi at a time of the heel or toe of a shoe to reverse it's direction, turning round holding both poi in one hand and passing them round my back... Some fun stuff on the meteors, passing them behind my back and turning round holding them in one hand, and a slightly dodgy 4 point weave, one handed, and not actually holding the chain, just wrapping my wrist through it at the right moment.

Poi rock. And I should get my first go with fire this weekend...

t.

Where can i go to find a learning video of the move figure 8
i've recently just started and know alot of moves already but am intreged to learn alot more,just bought some electroglo to,very impressed,but fire feels alot nice and a much better rhythm...just got the btb weave,hehe took me a couple mins to figure it out but once goin it was quite fun

I got this on sunday...ummm don't know how to explain it so well...but it the weave but your facing forward and doing it on ur side...sorta up and under one shoulder...can do it forwards on each shoulder and am working on backwards.

Okay. is The Figure 8 a corkscrew or something? Because that's what I learned in raving terms.

Kinda a weave turned 90 degrees? (praise my spelling skill)

figure of 8 is a 2 beat weave
the same as corkscrew or windmill but done on your sides

Been working on a btb in time corkscrew with long (30") chains. It works, but involves lots of leaning and jumping and awkward twisting of the arms. I'll attempt a proper description when I've got it working smoothly.

J

um i can finally fluidly perform a double pinwheel (opposite direction) - looks more like a moth than a butterfly...

alright i have an interesting wrap move i just got down a coupla days ago. it is done by wrappng one poi/glowstick over he top of ur shoulder while u wrap the other one under the armpit of said shoulder.
to simplify one is goin over ur shoulder comin out in ur pit the other one is goin pit to shoulder.
then when you pull them out you let them each do a rotation between ur arms before wrapping ur other shoulder as ur first one, cept the poi/stix will be reversed.
in other words the one that was over the shoulder will be under the pit and vise versa, on ur opposite shoulder.

just tought it looked really cool and descided to share.

one more thing, when doin the rotation between the arms you wanna make sure they are spaced a lil bit apart else you will tangle.

looks like you do a butterfly between ur arms from wrap to wrap. looks cool.

ok, i'm done.

i pulled off the btb reverse weave finally after spending a solid 3 hours on it....i have a sore nose tho,after i get the third beat and try to keep it goin i wack myself in the nose everytime without fail,i know not a wrap but just funny cuz it's another gimp promoting more falcons haha

i just learned a new move to......even though it is an easy on for you guys it was hard the first trillion times.......then it was more easy as i went along it was a btb butterfly.
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In the land of the blind the man with one eye is king: Chris Farley.

hey, i just started with poi and the other day i learnt the weave, chasing the sun, windmill, corkscrew and the BTB butterfly, that was a full day of hitting myself as well.
See you all later.