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

Actually that reminds me I got my first straightjacket as well

I'm sorry, are we talking about a garment or a poi move?
If it is the latter, could somebody please elaborate?

i think ibe got the forwards and backward 5bt not sure though.... also sometimes likes to go into a hyperloop well have to ask peeps to let me know

sparkey - it's a double crosser - your arms are threaded through each other. Try crossing your arms and then spinning like that

span a weird 3bt weave last night that has a bit of isolation on the crossover and 4 obviously defined planes - a weave that doesn't look like a chase but rather one arm going round the other in turn

and i hammered in loads of stuff backwards that i should have been able to do years ago...


cole. x

Cole :] , I call it Elbow weave, is it like that. When your elbow are in contact or more close to each other than usualy?

light, :R

Just kind of move around weirdly and put the poi through the gaps that open up, isolate a bit and do under the leg stuff, reels, whatever. split them apart and join them together somewhere else. Probably looks crap but it feels weird.

--ben

Feeling very pleased as got forward 7 beat weave today. Still very messy and I think my shoulders might dislocate shortly, but happy!

Jude

I learned something new! wahoo!

It's a weird butterfly thing that's wrong. not very exciting. but it's wrong. and new. and makes my arms all twisty.

BF airwraps, hyperloops, and a BTB airwrap over to the front thingy which mostly involves hitting myself in the head at the moment, but I can feel it coming...

It's been a productive couple of days!

UTL orbital/hyperloop and btb 3bt butterfly weave

Im kinda happy at the moment XD

*Goes to do some spinning*

I learnt how to use stilts!!!
YAY for me! And they're so easy too... I think they're the best kept secret of all the circus-type skills!!!

Hey there....I have only been spinning poi for about 2 weeks, so I don't really know all the terminology, so please forgive any "faux poi's". I have just managed the 6 beet weave which I saw on Mot's Place. I can not, however, managed to get my arms in the position he does, so I have to let the chains wrap around my fingers before changing over to the other side. It is not 100% right yet, but getting there. I know that I should have learnt a lot more basic tricks first, but once I got the 4 and 5 beat weaves I just couldn't resist. As for behind the back..........I will keep practicing!!!!

5bt btb weave, 360 degree btb weave turns, alternating butterfly turns.

Ditto, Ðraghkyre, stilts are awesome! I've been using mine for about a month, I love them to bits. Using poi on stilts takes a lot of effort, but it's really fun and worth it to learn.

Just learnt how to keep a reverse butterfly going with poi constantly tangled/touching at throughout the move

Oooo ooo if you count bagging silly firey wraps then I've done it... WOOT! Chuffedness... mind I have a few burnt leg hairs now, guess I dont need to wax anytime soon lol

i was mucking about with hyperloops the other day and i found that if you do just your basic hyperloop from a fwd weave but do it really slow when you finnish the move (going from right to left ) my right hand poi had reversed direction and i was doing a butterfly i thinking that this was just a fluke i tryed 3 or 4 times in quick sucsession and i always ended up in butterfly

i think ive finally got hyperloops going left to right; right to left in forward and reverse go me

still trying to smooth my butterfly weave and get the forward btb weave

again i dont no the name but anyways from a windmill stick your neck in the middle so both poi start to wrap round your neck then lean back so that they both unwrap é voila

ohh... I feel so behind...
But yesterday afternoon, and this afternoon, I finally got the weave down... I think... yeah.. I know, Im slow, but Ive been having trouble, and these new poi did heaps for me

lol, I was thinking about it the other day... and Im still not weaving >:(

extra circles in waistwraps are working in one direction, on one side - slow progress

isolated weaves in wallplane are making loads more sense now.

as is the 5bt isolated weave ( chutney&simian)


the list of stuff i want to learn is just getting longer rather than shorter...


i like poi


cole. x

I have only recently got butterfly, i've been doing reverse butterfly for about 2 years without knowing! lol i am also a stilt freak, i've bee stilting for, also, about 2 years and love it!! I am now saving up for some kangaroo leg stilts!!

Wie! I just made the Weave!! I'm so happy!

did my first 5bt weaves yesterday....
but is it possible to turn around just like in the normal weave?

yay, I hav only had some poi for three days now, and i just did the corkscrew, i am well happy especially seeing as I haven't actually been able to go outside with em yet, so practicing in my small uni room whilst avoiding hitting the fire alarm is always fun.

Yay, I am loving poi so much already

Oh first post ever as well, xciting

Just figured out the 5bt forward last night on top of the roof of my aparment building So exciting.

I now know what I need to do for the backward one, but I swear my wrists don't do that, I keep smacking myself in the head.

It's true what thay say, just let the 3bt tangle enaugh times on the extra beat and you get the 5bt eventually.

Oh yeah, first post ever, too.

preductive day 2 day managed to get leg wibbles down to a fine art

i also got really good cork screw suicides

as well as what i can only presume to be a buterfly air wrap in witch i do an inward butterfly with my right poi going over my left. then i turn 90 degrees to the right and take my right hand poi with me this so tangles with my right hand poi thus also pulling over the left hand poi. the chians then untangle and it nicely goes in to a weave. can anyone tell me what this really is

butterfly hyperloops
and loads of other transition stuff. I am quite the spinny girl atm

Wie!

Today I learned BTB weave, low turn and chasing the sun... the BTB weave took a loooong time to get... :P