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

I got reverse hyperloops, a few beats of oli-loop and butterfly neck wraps

Last night I got what Zan calls the "mind meltdown" on the EncycloPoidia. It was totally one of those "I can't believe I couldn't do that!" moments. I also got the meltdown pirouette. Next is adding flower beats to it.

And hyperloops are coming along...they're getting more consistent and under control.

Yakumo: goofy flowers are flowers where one poi is antispin, but the other is regular spin.

Ok, so I have been working with this move for a little while and I have gotten it down with glowsticks. Im still don't do spiral wraps with fire. But it's one I have either missed or haven't seen during my searches on the forums. It s a butterfly spiral wrap. While doing the butterfly I just exstend my fingers into the prayer position let the poi wrap and pull just as they finish the wrap. If you stop there you are now in the reverse butterfly. You can also let the go out do on beat in reverse and spiral again back into normal butterfly. It makes it look like the butterfly is growing from your hands. My friends liked it. Thought all of you might.

I've been productive in the last three days:
buzz-saw isolations
TTN isolation
TTN turns
BTB Butterfly waistwraps
Waistwrapy turny thing
Butterfly hyperloop
"Salt N Peppah"
Whee!

Ok,

BW BF -> Trow underneath(under hand) -> tapback it back
(back in direction) -> catch it again underneath
to opposite direction -> repeat with other hand -> FW BF.

lightning,

:R

I took acid at a club the other day and was using my poi as sock poi by swinging them from the tails with the strings taken off, and someone knocked me as I was doing 5bt and it somehow moved the point where my hands would cross to the strings and I accidentally hyperlooped! I was so into what I was doing because of the acid that I remembered exactly the movement I had done by accident and repeated it, so now I can hyperloop, yay! At least I think it's a hyperloop... They dont spin much, I think its one or half a beat worth of spinning, something like that. This is a hyperloop, right? where the 'extra' beat of the 5bt weave makes the strings cross and uncross on the other side? I may just be being silly. It looks cool anyway, thats the main thing.

Now I just need to learn how to do them backwards!

...Which means I have to stop being lazy and learn 5bt backwards, oh well.

Anyway, to all people who "just cant get" a trick, take some acid or 2-CB, it seems to work for me.

(I'm joking, honest! Drugs are bad, mmmkay? )

Actually I'm not sure that is called a hyperloop... its definately SOME kind of tangle though. Is it a thru-wrap? I have no idea!

If your poi are tangling on one side of you and unwrapping on the other, then it's a hyperloop. if the poi are wrapping around a part of your body, and unwrapping, then it's a through wrap. If the poi are tangling and untangling in the same place on the same side of you, it's an airwrap.

I hope that helps >,<

I've learnt nothing!

I think its a hyperloop then, it crosses on one side and uncrosses on the other. Yay! I've almost grasped how to do isolations now too, wicked!

crossarm wibbles

split time wibbles with both hands

turning parallel antispin reels

can't make the buggers go split time.

but then again, i don't think i can do normal ones split time


cole. x

Split time butterfly weave, woo! And Coming out of cross arm reels into wall plane antispin flowers, and back into cross arm reels with my hands the other way up. Nice. A

nd antispin reels, cheers for the idea Cole although it looks messy as hell and I can't turn them.

Also getting there with buzzsaw isolations (I'm using fire chains with monkey fist heads) and buzzsaw fountains.

OK, I figured out I was doing antispin reels wrong, I was doing the top circles behind my head, where they should be in front. Much cleaner, and it looks great going from normal to antispin.

Split-timing it is problematic, for the same reason normal reels are. When doing the top (shoulder) part, you only do half of the reel (the behind the head bit with normal, in front with antispin) before going into the hip reel bit. As a result, when you get to the hip reels bit, the wrong hand is leading, which means you get both poi crossing paths behind you (normal) or in front (antispin). Whilst this is technically the correct split time version of the move, it's messy and doesn't look right.

The way I deal with this is to modify the shoulder reels part to include the beat in front when I spin in split time. This effectively changes the overall motion from a 3 beat move to a 4 beat move, and means that the leading hand always leads throughout the motion. This looks more like proper linked reels, and is easy to spin normal or antispin.

If that explanation is incomprehensible, hear's a description in terms of beats and positions for normal reels, starting with the hip reel bit going clockwise (I find it easier starting with this):

Right hand behind right hip
Left hand in front of right hip
Right hand in front of left hip
Left hand behind left hip
Right hand in front of left shoulder
Left hand behind left shoulder
Right hand behind right shoulder
Left hand in front of right shoulder

That's for normal reels, for antispin, same sequence, poin spinning opposite way (anticlockwise).

Anyway, that's my new move...

Yakumo: Yes, impossible weave is split-time butterfly weave. A goofy flower is one where one hand is antispun and the other isn't, for example arms going the same direction and poi are going opposite, or poi going the same direction and arms doing opposite. And yup I'm coming to Synergy! See you there....

Sambo

5bt inverted butterflyweave (i think)

antispin weave

a cool negative space throw

clubswingers nightmare (is that its real name??) properly this time

isolated fountain

atomic 3bt weave

i don't even know what those are?

tangles hyperloop and half the waist wrap

I've learned Armpit through-wraps (?) but not quite perfected them yet, and also learned Buzzsaw isolations, which I was trying to do for MONTHS and now I can do them I've realised what was stopping me from being able to do them. The poi I was using were far too light for the momentum to be right. I now use juggling balls in long socks which work really really well. I want to learn more isolations now!

BTB forward 5bt weave waistwrap

a few turning flowers from the 3bt waistwrap

isolated buzzsaw fountain with regular spin.(can do it anti-spin way sloppy though)

windmill transition from buzzsaw fountain(regular or anti-spin) high and low ( I picked this up really easily after messing around with insides. . as the hand positioning is similar

anti-spin 4bt corckscrew


3bt butter-weave fountain

high and low windmill pirroette

partial 'weird ass iso/inversion in front wall plain' thing from simian, might be the whole thing actually I'm not sure, need to watch him do it a few hundred more times to understand,

Neck wrap.
Did it on my third try. It felt SO damn good as well..

Not sure what it's called, but outward thread the needle, but where the top poi does a pendulum across the top of the pattern. Looks really nice when the bottom poi is isolated, and the top poi head crosses the bottom poi about 3/4 of the way towards the hand. Thread the pendulum maybe? Learning the inwards version at the moment.

Oh, and 1.5s (3bt weave, with pendulums). Groovy. Having issues with butterfloops though...

today i got a suicide type thing, to another suicide type thing, without untangling. im not sure if its the technical name. its basically where you go into an airwrap and let go of one of the handles.

i also got the above thing, and joined it straight into a hyperloop.

also got a few beats of btb hugs

i just learned how to thread the needle sure it seems quite lame but i've only been poing for 5 months now!!

WOOOOOOO

Finally got the 4-beat corkscrew. Its not the most reliable thing in the world but at least I know it's possible...

lol sam, well done, I spent a bit of time on 1.5's after seeing durbs' vid...

maybe more later, just a total head **** really, lol

1.5 variation.

lightining,

:R

the zipper is now no longer the bane of my exisitance!

i cleaned up my airwraps-very messy before, now done with neatness

five was pretty easy for me once i learned four. It's not great for performances or anything, but they're good for cleaning up your threes and excersizing.