Backwards/Reverse Weave.

Any luck with the reverse weave yet?

The most common problem I see with people learning this move is that they try to move their hands as if they were trying to do the forwards weave. Moving over,under back.....instead of moving under, over, back. Frustrating, I know.

Try turning from your fwd to rev weave, see if that helps....Or try concentrating on learning it in just one side first. You'll get it, have faith, you already know the forwards weave works, but I'll bet you had your doubts when learning that one too.

Don't sweat the TTN,,,, it's an important move, it just has a funny feel to it when compared to the butterfly, try simply alternating which hand is on top in your butterfly first...then start working in the closer to your body/further from your body component, and gradually exaggerate it from there.

got it
just broke down each step for the foward weave and then figured out how it should go with the reverse
started off as an ugly reverse eight now it's an ugly 3bt
i read all that stuff just none of it made sense when i tried to put it in practice

Good, Obviously you didn't strangle yourself but I know how frustrating trying to learn poi from reading text can be. The move'll get less ugly with time and practice

everyone had their own techniques and it was all very confusing...nearly strangled but i now may have neck wraps in my repetiore
now i just need to stop the swish with my hands from the same side back of my head to the opposite side front of my head....not sure wear that is coming from but it is residual from my reverse weave learning experience

If you're saying what I think you're saying, then it's normal, what you have there is the beginnings of a turn. When doing the reverse weave, the poi have a bit of a tendency to go up, and your hands naturally want to follow them. You'll sort that out in no time.

awww there goes my uniqueness...damn

Yahoo, finally got it today, still a little messy but it is right,
Been putting off focussing on this for a few months, then put in the time and got ithappening
Jeff

About the reverse 5-beat weave--

Alright, so I can do 3bt weave like no tomorrow, go into reverse from there, I even think I have the 5bt down.... but I can't do reverse 5bt and the video in the lessons is no good (too blurry). Does anyone know a link to a good video of this move?

i'll do one in a few mins

[edit] okay its up in my gallery now.

for the weave, just licke it has been mentioned, push the poi moving to the other side UNDER your arm, Left hand under right moving to the Right and Visa Versa

For the threading the needle, once again keep the poi pushing forward in time with the other poi, just keep and even plane with a forward motion

I'm new to spinning reverse aswell. But I found out that getting into the reverse is the hardest. So I started searching for ways that would "automatically" throw me into the pace and the move. And then I stumbled upon the 180 Weave, which was exactly what I needed. WHen you do the weave, spin 180 degrees with yoru body and your hands will be doing a reverse weave. Takes some practice, mine is faaaar from clean yet. Sping another 180 and your back to normal.

Have fun!

i just cant do it the reverse weave.. =s its so frustrating when i try it i make the butterfly can someone help me plz?
its so hard to try it reading this threads.. i think i need to have a teacher here at my side and i live in mexico and no one practice it here but i can do a lot of tricks, just this one its soo hard

HELP PLZ...

PLEASE can we have straight instructions on this-i'm no good with all the other stuff, i just get confused (and we all know how easy that is!) e.g, for fwd weave, you get the nice left over right, etc (i'm not saying that has ANYTHING at all to do with the weave, so don't use that as advice!)
Thanks for whoever gives us the AMAZING advice. (I just need reverse weave to learn fountain.)
Thx again.

I struggle with the reverse weave too. At the moment I can do a single reverse weave and when I try and take it back to the beginning again, the poi kind of swing sideways instead of down, especially the right one.

As for ttn, the "hands one on top of the other" advice asgiven up-thread helped me crack it.

Thanks to all members with advice on the reverse/backward weave. Your advise is sound in theory BUT I CAN'T stop my hands from going back to the forward motions!! I have mastered EVERY move forward, my challenge now is to go the other way!! Any additional pointers would be most helpful. THANKS !!!

P.S. If I had a dollar for every time I have whacked myself over the years..... I'd spend it all at HOP !!

Hey I just wanted to thank all the people who posted on this. I woke up this morning after having read this last night and decided to give reverse weave a try again. I've been failing to figure it out for months now. I started with swinging them backwards split time and crossed them over when I felt comfortable and got it the first time! Its awesome because I've been in a rut the past few weeks and I was starting to feel bad. Thanks a bunch for all the great advice!

i still can't do this move, tried with pens, and spatula handles, and short poi, and long poi

for me reverse weave was a real nightmare - i just could not figure out how my hands were ment to do that. they way i see it is when you do the forward weave your hands sort of push the poi down into the figure of eight shape weaves are based on - right? so to do it reverse, your hands need to push the poi UP into the basic figure of eight shape.


Make sense?

Reverse weave was a bit of a buzz for me too but if you can do regular weave and find a good video showing the reverse, it wouldn't be too hard after some practice.
Good luck to all who are struggling with it!
It just takes time and practice, so you'll get it eventually.

The thing I found I had to remember with the backwards weave is that, although your hands are moving exactly like forward weave in rewind (under, over, round etc) it feels completely different. Instead of pushing your hands down over each other you should be pulling the poi up from underneath. This also works wel for outwards ttn, if anyone's interested. Pull!