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

hurrah!
One handed butterfly over the head and back gain without killing myself
And a very chinky one handed 2 beat weave

or even better, between the testicles

hehehe...aww garthy...u crying with laughter made me cry with laughter...for some reason...

aaanyway, i just learned butterfly weave and a variation of it, and it made me

next on the To Learn list...flowers...

does anyone have any tips on how to wiggle your bum less when you do buzzsaw? i dont use it infront of people because of this and its becoming a problem...

not wiggling your bum during a buzzsaw is easy... not wiggling your bum here and there during an isolated buzzsaw, now that's a challenge..


and since I keep posting off topic...
I learned some fun direction changes with various one handed moves.. hehe

I've started holding the chain of the other poi after I wrap one around my wrist during weaves and continue spinning until I want to unwrap - kind of inner circle and outer circle stuff.
not sure what these are called keep mixing up terms anyways

meteors, courtesy of gothfrogette

Butterfly flowers, both where your arms are going in the same direction and where they're going in the opposite direction. Oddly easy to get - I'd be suspicious but I got a second opinion and they're right

Now to work on that reverse wall plane antispin weave simian showed me last night...

*confused*

How do you get butterfly with both arms going the same way? Isn't that a butterfly fountain or is there something that I'm being really silly and missing?

yes, you are being a silly dunc

the whole hands together vs. hands apart thing

if you keep your arms opposite each other and do same direction longarm you get a 'same direction bf flower'.

if you keep you hands together and do the same thing, you have to know firstly how to bf weave in wall plane and then, once you can transition from one side to the other smoothly, you will have yourself a 'bf fountain'.

i ain't learnt nuffin.

but i did work out for myself that forwards glides start looking 10 times better if you lean back.
need to watch more usher videos /:)


cole. x

Nobody needs to watch more Usher videos. First it's glides, then you'll be getting gold teeth to be like Lil Jon. It's a slippery slope you just don't want to start on.

Is a butterfly weave transition also called warrior? Or is it something different?

I got a tangled corkscrew/wrap/thingy!

*Gemit quietly taps herself on back* I just mastered mexican wave and rising sun both ways......know it's very feable compared to all this complicated talk up here ^^^^^^ but it took me all night and just wanted to tell someone who might care...a bit!?....oooo and I can do forward, back and overhead weave!! So do you reckon I can play with fire now....purrrleeeease?!

Mwaaaah haaaa, of course I mean chasing the sun....stooopid mo fo aren't I?!?!

yay gemit congrats mexican wave took me ages to get but over head was pretty quick after that - jst gotta get my reverse over head and btb butterfly nice and clean now

I just picked up my poi this monday for the first time since august Tis great I learnt both 5 beat weave, 3 different variations of iso's-clean that is.. am halfway on some wraps and hyperloops and starting to get the whole flowerthing

ME IS BAAACK...!!

-- and a second and to Fluffy Napalm Fairy& Oli for big inpiration

i just did some wicked combo thing when i was pissed last night
it goes forward swinging => low turn =>straight into BTB weave =>reverse normal weave.

all my drunk friends were very impressed

I got the 3 beat weave! I got the 3 beat weave! I got the 3 beat weave! I got the 3 beat weave! I got the 3 beat weave! I got the 3 beat weave! I got the 3 beat weave! I got the 3 beat weave! I got the 3 beat weave! I got the 3 beat weave! I got the 3 beat weave! I got the 3 beat weave!

I small feat for the rest of you, I'm sure, but all I've been able to get for the past month was the 2 beat. I suppose I should have got the sock poi sooner. I got the stuff to make LED socks, so hopefully I can take the socks into the club soon, instead of just the comets

GO DRAKE - took me ages to get 3 bt
but this weekend ive managed to get 5bt so go me too
i had that too, got tail poi to start with and now ive got sock poi im learning quicker
just gotta get it sorted with the tails now :P

lol, so now I feel like a complete idiot... let me tell my story....

today, since I finally "got" the 3bt, I of course was giddily doing it for long periods of time. and suddenly I couldn't remember how to do the 2bt. then I realized, my hand motions were identical. I thought "what the heck is this?" so I went back to the tailed poi, and sure enough, it turns out I've been doing 3bt al lthe time, I just didn't know it. because the strings on the tailed poi are black, I couldn't tell for sure how many times the poi were flying overhead. so I got all excited for nothing.

lol but to make it worse for linden, I actually just kind of naturally got the weave. I didn't realize what I was doing because of the way the video taught it. I got it by just crossing the poi in front of me and making a kind of figure 8 on it's side. after a few seconds of doing that, I just kind of naturally shifted to the poi chasing each other instead of crossing each other, and lo and behold , I had the weave (which I thought at the time was only the 2bt).

lmao i jsut hate it when you learn a move go back to it and cant do it then spend a frustrated 2 minutes hitting yourself - ah well
can get 5 bt with tails which is cool - just need to figure out it in reverse - i cant make the poi cross over on the last beat on either side which is annoying as i hit myself in the face instead.

that and i wanna try and get the btb weave and maybe do some stuff with buzz saws

been working on stuff where one poi dosn't follow the other at all but goes off on it's own thing for a bit before coming back together. under the leg stuff and stepovers and things. btb under the leg. utl crossers (kinda. can't think of a better name yet.) and old school contact poi like dantana did in some vid i can't seem to find, where your hands are always in contact with your body. and tangled butterflies with wraps in. and 3 petal flowers (it's all in the elbows. and you can make 6 petal flowers). and them without turning. which are easier.

--ben

woog!!
First post! Here's a list of the moves that I've got down in the past 2week:
7beat weave (hell yeah! -- though very sloppy)
fountain (also with 5beat weaves instead of 3)
flower (with antispin)
btb weave (hurts)
buzzsaw (only one way)

go rohan in 2 weeks? thats fast
contrats on being an annoyingly quick learning
keep going with it