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

Last weekend I've finalyy had some kind of creative-shove... I managed split time butterfly, windmill and foutain for the first time in my life *reallyproudiam*

well this will be the fourth post in a row on topic...shite someone better sort that one out!

I learnt how to tie monkey knots so I can make two finger monkies for fire poi handles *my dream handles*

I also learnt with staff (scuze poor terminology it's all new to me) neck roll from left then it rolls down my right arm doing 180 round my forearm on the way into a palm spin above my head. If you'd seen me smile afterwards I'd 'ave blinded ya!!

Flowers - same direction as the arms and butterfly ones as well. Both a bit sloppy but now that I've got them I can smooth them out a bit. And work on trying to get the opposite direction one as well.

Butterfly weaves - now pretty much as smooth as my normal weave in everything except wall plane which is still a little weak.

Lots of other little odds and sods really that aren't moves per se but have definitely improved my spinning over the weekend

allsorts of double wristwraps from tangled up stuff, keep forgetting which side everythings gonna come untangled on.

I think I might be catching on to the 4 & 5 beat weave certainly it caught on my wrists for most of last night... Will try isolations next...

I can just about (as in sometimes and its really untidy) isolate a 3bt btb weave on one side!

so i got this really stellar wrap that i just learned


so u arm wrap with your right poi on the top then do like your gonna wrap on the bottom of that same arm but bring you arm under and around the left arm then wrap on the right shoulder


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then you do that and then wrap on the right arm witrh the left poi then do the same thing but opposite but you wrap both poi around your shoulder then do a ying yang

New move, new move!!!!!!

BTB weave!



I started off by looking for a glossary (because i only understand every other word of technicalness), and found a link to the BTB weave and decided to try!

A couple of blackeyes, and some interesting skin colour variations on my legs later, and the BTB weave was born.

It's a bit shoddy as yet - i uncross my arms too far, but i can do several repeitions before i smack either my legs, or my eye

yep

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BTB weave with those pull-out thingies and an extra spin inside them like a flower (make sense 2 u? )

hyperloops from the 5bt forward weave position (thanks PiP Matt)

Isolated weave sketchy but gettin there (thanks PiP Matt)

Buzzsaw fountain (thanks PiP Matt)

Flowers (thanks PiP Matt)

(partialy) isolated flowers (thanks PiP Matt)

erm.....THANKS PiP MATT!!

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Step over and foot flick up thingie (whats it called Ben?) (thanks Ben)

Contact butterfly with BTB pass all contacted (thanks me!)

What a wicked weekend

oh and I forgot one. I'm not sure what it's called (if it already has a name can someone let me know please) but the best comparison name we could come up with was "contact suicide" as the poi constantly rotate around my wrist/forearm but not wrapped around the arm, the poi are straight and I can get up to about 5 or 6 revolutions before they fall off. I need to make isolate movements to make it work but basically it looks like a devil stick when one rotates around the other. Know what I mean??

They can be in vertical or horizontal planes. Vertical is very hard and horizontal has been much more fun so far as I can do all sorts of body movements and throws etc.

congrats on the moves bug! have a look in the spherculism forum under 'contact rolls' cos i think these are what you're talking about...

cheers dub been over the spherc and found the thread but there's sounds a little different to mine and mine dont' actually wrap around the arm, merely touch it. Kinda like isolated staff if you catch my drift?

bug. i agree youve learnt tooo much.

me: i havnt learnt much. i built some new poi, was getting a few double wibbles down fairly goodthe other day. (thanks matt)

Keep up the hard work Bug, and oli your wibbling was looking damn good the other day.

Bug, that move has no name but there's a vid somewhere, i'll try to dig it out.

double wibble = dibble
triple wibble = tribble

dibble tribble! class!

Don't forget four is quibble!

I just realised there's been two Matt's teaching us moves! There must be something in the name me thinks

*runs to depoll to change name*

Custom Matt...no hang on that sounds like a posh rug for your front door!

Hopefully I'l get to meet poipoipoi Matt sometime and share some doobies and thingumy bobs, although me thinks it'll be more receiving on my part than giving

Matt you should coe to Falmouth for tis going to be great...oh yes

Me and PiP Matt decided to call that move it Contact Suicide...seemed like a suitable name, and so it shall remain till someone says something better

Straight-arm 4 beat TTN. At least forwards on one side, but it's a pretty nifty looking move and I should be able to translate it pretty easily elsewhere

Straight-arm as is long-arm, or just straight out in front of you?

Straight-arm as in straight out in front of you. Well except in this case it's more straight out to one side currently - makes it easier to learn I find. Once I can turn then I can get to point it in other directions

Poi - one hand BTL,one under the shoulder the hand tha tgoes
BTL

oooo, I like that one..doh, guess I better post some new stuffage..isolated body weaves & butterflies have been the soup du jour this week Also nailed this buzzsaw separation thing last night on fire, take right arm from buzzsaw, poi heads separate at 3, 1:30, then 12 o'clock, then one beat in buzzsaw, rinse repeat..

a sorta weird looking 3 beat underarmy thing. apparently it looks pretty cool, but i want a vid so i can see what im doing. and i got 3 beat weave with a buzzsaw in the middle, going one way, will work on the other way soon. and i found out that a tangly thing i'd been doing was actually a hyperloop

i got behind the back butterfly yesterday!, first time, i am very pleased with myself, must get the behind the back waist wrap sorted now, but i lent my book to someone and they havent given it back , are there any vidoes of it?

One handed Butterfly
Thats 3 moves i can do now yay!

My wraps are improving... they actually wrap n dont tangle... woohoo!

I just learnt the Low wave thats 2 new moves this weekend!

poi: reliable wall plane 7bt weave, standing still, not turning the body at all. both directions. and another way of doing a 7 that makes both the other ways i know of doing it the same way looked at from the middle in opposite directions. which would make sense if you saw it. honest.

staff: nice spinny jumpy thing, where you kick the staff, jump over it and then catch it behind the back. and a monkey stick climb thing. which dosen't really fit with anything but looked fun in the video.

7 beat weave????oh my god thats crazy i just now learned the 5 beat.who teaches a 7 beat weave?!

yay i finally got hyperloops deffinetly on my right side but the left is still a bit weak

contact with a devil stick. great fun. (and annoys devil stickers)
helicopter fishtails. windmill-ish fishtails.
continuous hacky stick for about a minute.

-ben