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

Horizontal false airwraps. Airwrap/tangle in floorplane, then as the heads are halfway round, tangle them again with your hands...let them bounce and reverse, letting go with your hands and coming straight out. Need to learn 1.5s

btb waistwrap > elbow carry > switch hands > tangle suicide. real nice.
horizontal propellers (only for a few beats so far though)
2nd degree tangles, windmill tangles, and all sorts of inverty watermilly stuff.

Reverse 1.5s, turning forward to reverse 1.5s, BTB 1.5s, and wall plane figure 8 1.5s, as taught to me by Durbs himself at Spitz!

Got a couple of clean butterfloops, needs a lot of work though, and a couple of rotations of inwards thread the pendulum (don't know of it has a name, that's what I've been calling it cause it seems apt). Again, needs awork...

release into Chestroll.

release into Armroll.

Foot catches.

Hybrid weaves fwd and reverse.

Cracking the poi like a whip for direction changes.

butterfly waistwraps.

fwds BTB weave and waistwraps.

some silly contact juggly throwy catchy stuff.

I dont usually post here, I scan around for interesting things occasionally, but my friends are rather tired of hearing about every time I learn something new lol.
So, moves that I'm rediculously happy with:
A compound isolation (that is a full wallplane isolation, moved in a giant circle)
5 Beat slide (Fifth beat slides up your arm to your bicep)
Split time thread the needle (I dont think this name is entirely accurate, but the hand in front does 2 beats while the one behind does 1, and then obviously they switch tempos as they switch positions)
The Showstopper (All credit for this move is owed to Jeremy Felix, cuz hes the man. Its from the BTB weave, and you catch both poi with the opposite hand, then kinda pretzel your body a little, and come out into a *not* Btb weave)
And of course Hyperloops, which I'm still working the kinks out of (pun completely intended :P)
Waistwraps (both kinds)
And leg weaves, which are stupidly easy, they just never work into anything well


Jay

Chasing the Sun! =D

I'm a n00b, but it's super fun to do. I'm having a hard time with Low Turn though. I got the High Turn down, but low turn just doesn't make sense to me.

p.s. HI! Aren't you guys thrilled to have a n00b? (I don't expect a "yes" to that).

Boo low turn, put em both through your legs instead :P

1.5s, reverse 1.5s, turning fw to bw 1.5s, "wrong" bw 1.5s, 7 beat btf weave.

i just watched an old video of myself, and learned a 'new' move

its one of those tangly, fake knot kind of things

btb 5bt fwd weave (sloppy) and btb 4bt ttn (clean but somewhat inconsistent)

*jumps up and down* Woo!!

I've been practicing BTB stuff for the last week. I first learned BTB Butterfly, which is awesome, then the BTB 2beat weave came on saturday. Last night, I pulled off the 3beat BTB forward weave! It's inconsistent, and I often hit my ankles, but I can get it continuously when I really try. Now just to practice and get it tighter!

When I finally got it I wasn't expecting to get it so easily - so I excitedly threw both poi high into the air - I caught one, but the other got stuck in a tree. In hindsight, you'd think throwing the OTHER one up to dislodge it would be a stupid move, but luckily it worked. Seems I got a little too excited.

yey! Nice one nolly!

I think I just did a backwards isolated weave without really thinking about it. Looked down and it was all wheeee who's got control of my hands and would they like to go out to dinner?!

I just got forward 5 weave, not bad i think since i started poi on tuesday. Got reverse 3 beat yesterday aswell which is quite cool.

last night i did three beat btb. and i dont even do poi!

grrrrrr

Finally got my butterfly hyperloop working (yay for switching from chains to socks), normal hyperloops (sketchy), buzzsaw hyperloops (mmmm, lush, but also sketchy), and a right-to-left inverted weave. Did it a couple of times the other way, needs tidying up though.

Some utterly loopy Simian inspired (happened trying to remember what he tried to show me at synergy) thing, possibly two of them

Anyone in Edinburgh will have seen me trying to figure out how to make it clean. Maybe it needs a name other than crazzy ass simian wall plane spin to antispin switching flower thing.

I am new to this web site. I have been looking for 2 years for people like me i didn't think I would find it. None of my friends spin. I thought I was the only one

Inverted windmill!! Yay:) a very fun trick.

cool to know hunter green but the wrong place for it, try the 'social chat' thread and/or make an introduction thread using the link via the 'my home' link top left.

but welcome

back on topic :
really got the 4 point (per hand) crazy thing looking cool now, and the near 3 point simian thing I think.

Finally getting regular (instead of butterfly) huggies thanks to Sambo Flux passing down the Simian method for teaching them.
Antispin weave and butterfly btb waist wraps thanks to Irinus.

I can get a low quality video out of my stills camera so people can have a clue what I'm talking about soon

Looking good Yakumo, there are some nice variations of the wallplane anitspin. I've been working on going into and out of it from a huggie and antispin flower.

Finally, I'm starting to get a few BTB hyperloops, a couple sloppy hybrid weaves and turning antispin weaves. Too much to work on, too little time...

Some weird pirhouette thingy...
Starting with a fwrd splittime. I use my right arm to just go 'round' well, i hope you've seen a pirhouette thing anyhow.. my left arm goes aroubd my back and in front again on the other side. And the right arm goes on the other side... umm... It's difficult to explain.. i never tried explaining a pirhouette to anyone. I just played around and it came to me...

Aah, it's so daft it's taken me so long, for all the daft tricks i know, it's taken me forever to finally truly get same direction huggies, forward and reverse, turning both ways, totally, thanks so much Sambo (and Simian).

Inverted 4bt windmill with a turn:)

not really hard..

so.. a regular windmill is 2 beats right? so for a 4 beat your folding your wrists over in the same sort of vein as doing a 5 beat weave? and by inverted you mean your arms hang low so it's going around your legs instead of your head?

aaah, course, every time someone says inverted I just think upside-down. Makes sense now, I did know what an inversion is in Poi (going into barrel rolls/straight jackets etc..)

i learnt how to do more wraps and stall latnight pretty cool stuff.

ah, finally spent some time on it in a mirror and got really nice fully isolated 3 beat fw and rev weaves, and...

the 5 beat iso weave I've been trying to copy from Mico for so damn long