Throwing poiz in the air

what is the 15 beat weave? where do i learn how to do it? where is there video tape of it?

thanks for the help, sorry if i seem anxious, but i am!

Jamie,
I think the 15 Beat weave is a typing mistake and it was meant to be 5 beat ???
and if not I too need to know RIGHT NOW what it is !!! BASSMAN ??????
shine on
Cassandra

The 15 beat weave was not a typo :-) Normally 5 is the maximum number of beats that you can fit into a weave unless you are ungodly flexible, you use arm wraps, or you let go of the poi at some point so that your arms don't get so twisted. In this case I was referring to the latter. I was just using the number 15 as an example. You can actually put in as many beats as you want to with the method I was describing. I don't have a video of it unfortunately, but you basically let go of one of the poi as you are twisting your arms on one side of the weave. Then you quickly untwist your arms, grab the poi again, and twist again, before you cross over to the other side. This adds 2 beats every time you do this, and it can be repeated indefinitely. If you do this 6 times before crossing over to the other side I believe you will have done a 15 beat weave (3+2*6=15). It looks really cool when you do it because the poi just kind of hovers there when you let go of it. Of course, if you let go of it at the wrong time or you are spinning too fast when you let go, the poi will go flying away from you.

There is also a nice way to do a 9 beat weave without releasing the poi by using arm wraps. After you do 3 beats on one side, wrap the open poi on the crossed arm once. Then cross to the other side, unwrap, and then wrap on the other arm before you cross back over.

Is this making sense? Should I try to explain in more detail?

Cool, Bassman ! no need to explain, I know what u mean and I do on a reverse weave most of the time. still have to work on the "letting go of the poi" part.

still struggling to juggle with my poi, you know ? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa but when it works it feels like :

shine on
cassandra

I just posted a video that's got some ideas for poi throws. Simple things that you can link up to get crazy stuff... lots of fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89tF0MVeuUE

*blink*

Surely there have been newer posts on this topic?

That said, well done on the 8.5 year bump.... :hi5:

I miss Cassandra



Agreed with the 8.5 year bump, seriously, nice work there

bump;

I've been playing with throwing my poi for a while now and have found a couple of cool throws and catches. My throwing experiments started after watching Durbs whip catch video, I instantly loved it and started trying to learn how to do them. 4 years later I have finally got to a point where they are at least semi consistent.

My most recent discovery (although I found out the other day that DaG has been doing it for a while despite my never having seen it and training in the same space every day) is a lovely behind the head anti-spin throw to whip catch at the moment I'm finding it leads into a hyperloop but I want to take it to a release back behind the head and into its original hand, I think that'll look awesome.

This is kind of a teal deer (get it tl;dr) situation for me so I will answer by what I read

I love throws, they are quite fun to do, and give an added sense of difficulty for the audience without adding much strain to the spinner, I have seen people straight up juggle their poi and then there are "casual" throwers like me, I use them or plain bending/switching, transitions into and out of different patterns and sometimes just for my own daft fun ;D

A close friend of mine has been experimenting with throw/contact poi comboing and it's quite mesmerizing, he has shown me a few things that have made me go, "Okay wait wait wait, show me that again and slow it down, I don't quite understand" and imho it is amazing to see the different ways that people find to manipulate a single object in such diverse ways

Yeah, I do a lot of "flavor throws" myself; single tosses, or repeated tosses of the same hand, around the back, etc. Only recently have I been working on patterns (mostly wall plane 1.5 variations and weave-ish things) that involve steady throw patterns or simultaneous/near simultaneous throws.

Strangely, for all their obviousness, same time butterfly throws are still my bane. If I can get them to stay in plane, they collide. If I can get them not to collide, one of them flies off somewhere. At least my wibbles are coming together.

I might as well take this moment to thank (again, since I've said as much on YouTube) JoffJk and Nulleamai for getting me interested in throws, since they've totally changed how I do poi.

I have also been doing a lot (not as much as I would like but still...) of work with throwing, it is still a very open market even with it's constant evolution there are plenty of open possibilities waiting for someone to stumble upon them

Wibbling has proven quite difficult for me, any pro tips?

The main thing I found helpful was to start stalling the wibble just as it's passing 12, following the arc so it doesn't wrap around your hand. I usually try to catch as close under the counterweight as possible, but if you catch it farther up the cord you'll need to use a lighter touch to keep it from whirling crazy fast. Also give it a little upward momentum when you flip it to keep it from drifting down. The rest you just need to get a feel for...