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

Got the btb 3bt. Just clicked yesterday.

Also, not-1.5s are smoother (these are just fun )
Airwraps are getting smoother and am just playing around now.

Sort of got a butterfly weave thing too.

Parallel extension routine

Context: high longarm, low circle
Mode: parallel, backward, wheel

smile,

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Congrats Aston, that sounds cool...

During the last two days I learned:
High Turn, Low Turn and the forward 3 Beat Weave :-) It's real fun to do...

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as I don't really do poi I have no idea what this is called, I learnt a couple of variants too
butterfly buzzsaw fountain and turning butterfly buzzsaw foountain, a bit scary doing butterfly over your own head and some half antispin butterfly stuff.

I lost the transition b/n my weaves too, stupid insane winters

But I did learn to do numchuck type series. Spinning back...kinda throw it forward and do elbow wrap and then the other way into wrapping around my forearms into butterfly. so now must learn it the other way. And opposite and other way opposite

Yes! I just got the 5-beat BTB this morning! It could use some polishing, but I can't say I'm a big fan of the behind the back moves so far. It may be because I made sock poi last night (I've been using tennis balls on strings with loops or stick handles), which are a lot easier to work with; my planes are much, much better looking with the socks. Good times.

i just learned a bunch of butterfly weave varients, about got isolated buzzsaws can't keep em going tho

constant smooth clean isolations are very very difficult

isolations are different to other familys of moves. a lot of things once you understand them and practise them a bit, they are nailed.

but i've found isolations require constant work to keep them tight.

I forgot about the butterfly weave. cool

Saturday was the first day I practiced some moves and I learned some turns and the cork screw.

Today I learned the low wave and the 3 beat weave!

Today I have cleaned up my btb rev weave and learned the butterfly weave fountain, buzzsaw fountain and some normal fountains variations. I fountains.

went to a festival this past week, and brought my poi cause I KNEW there had to be other spinners there, and boy was I right!
I learned the 3b weave, and picked up how to do a butterfly behind the head! WOOT!

Always have poi

I have some in purse right now

yeepeeeeeeee, i have offically learnt my first move the butterfly , took me ages but once i got it right i cant do it wrong, its like a connection is made in the brain , and now its impossible to do it wrong ....delighted

I've been doing poi for all of about two days now (my current poi are socks although I have a set of kevlar poi coming), so I'm tickled pink with myself that I figured out the reverse 3 beat weave in a few hours! Basically for me it came down to doing about three or four spins of the forward 3-beat, then stopping and going over my pattern and letting my body just follow through with the pattern it already knows (albeit in the backwards direction). Now I'm working on getting into the pattern directly.

Next will probably be trying to figure out how to turn my body while spinning poi (hell of a lot harder than it looks!). For now, though, I'm pleased with myself.

ETA: Woohoo!!! Now I know the 5-bt and reverse!! (not BTB tho, that's for later. Seriously.)

hey all. been spinning for almost a month. and with the little freetime I have I recently got behind the back 3 and 5 beat, reel turns and isolations. along with all the other beginner moves. now it's getting to getting everything smooth and liquid together.

Nice going.