
so it's
that kind of holiday is it thomas?

sir Blackass and i have been playing around with hyperloop suicides which move to btb and btl hyperloop suicides ridiculously easy
learning the suicide is the hardest part, the btb is like, 1% of the trick)
the suicide works like this:
go into a normal airwrap (spinning a/c, lke most people) but with hands at about 1 and 7 instead of 3 and 9. (if your comfortable airwrap is clockwise, then your hands should be at 11 and 5).
try to make the tangle occur pretty close to the poi heads, so the weight either side of the tangle is approximately the same.
as soon as the poi have tangled, let go with the left hand, and pull up a tiny bit with your right hand(the one that was at '1')
this should make the left poi spin around all by itself in the airwrap, and then you can grap the handle again after a revolution or two, and then exit the airwrap. sometimes the exit happens while suiciding, but thats nice too.
now try with the suiciding poi coming from btl, btb, waistwrapped, etcetc.
particularly nice at the end of a flower, complicated or otherwise.
if only i didn't juggle i'd have been dancing wit' me poi too, but i'm a bit addicted to passing patterns right now

. the waltz is a partickly nice one

, but it does mean only 6 hours or so last week poi-ing

. more this week tho.
oohooohoh before i forget
behind the back 'thread the needle'

again heres the in front version(trttn)
catch both poi heads. make a loop with the string of one of them(left for preference for me)
throw the right poi head through the loop and catch it so you have a tangle, but each hand is holding its own poi head.
release the heads, giving a little bit of momentum clockwise so the tangle exits.
btb: hold the loop just behind the left hip, and throw the right poi head btb, so the tangle catch remains btb. this then releases(clockwise) into a btb waistwrap.

off to dance(mmmm empty rehearsal space.....

)
R