Cummon staffers lets c those signature moves!!!

not difficult but other than me people i dont realy see anyone else doing it i like to snap it to a stop in my armpit then flick it out again or do shoulder passes

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there is a nice little collection of moves in here. I would like to add my current work in progress. Its not clean enough to demo yet but if im gonna have a sig move, i'd like this to be it.

pass btb helicoptor

horizontal throw from btb

Lean back 180 degrees - limbo style- either one hand on ground or not (throw can be done as body reaches vertical also).

Catch and lower head shoulders to ground, Palm spins.

Throw horizontal

Kip up as described by bender a page or so back.

can anyone do horizontal contact catches? im not havin much luck....

a

ps thanks bender, you inspired this bendiness in me.

Excuse my ignorance, but whats a horizontal contact catch?

to my understanfing, a horz contact catch is
-catching the horizontally thrown staff with the hand grasping the staff as either:
1. into a palming move
2. into a horizonal fishtail or simliar contact movement that so bleedin new that it has no name other than 'that thing that Tepooka do' :)

also mate, the back body reach thinagmy is a backbridge. it requires abs of steel and loose pants incidentally the back bridge is similar to a nice yoga position that 'assists' the lowest, sexual/red chakra

Backbridge eh, cool to finally have a better name for it.... the most difficult part of this for me is not pulling weird faces from the effort , that and gettin a smooth palm spin (still finding this really hard with concentrate contoured grip - concentrate were happy to tell me they were workin on a flat more contact friendly break down version too.... )

*looks forward to testing out new 'imroved' chakras.....*

Contact catch:

I was thinkin more of a steve like move.

So the staff comes down in the air horizontally and is caught on back of hand and allowed to role down steve like.... Anybody?

If it can be done, maybe it could be tossed back over the head (or straight up for same hand catch) in an arc for a continious steve with helicoptor toss.

ok here is mine i do a dobble rap behinde the back to a under leg trasnfer into a flat spin double leg rap into i high through... does this count as a siginture move? or is it to many moves combined???

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Did you mean a contact leg roll? and a high throw?

I dont really stick to 1 sig move but am partial to btl pass's and finger rolls they say they go good with sweet and sour sauce.

my signature move is this move called spin the staff :P.

Oh, and also i tend to do a lot of 'waterfall' style 3 beat fig 8s, with the fwd fig8 infront of the body and the reverse one sorta behind it in a semi waist wrap affair. Yep i do that a lot.

My current favourite is a handstand with a cross trapped under (over?) my chin

spinning backwards, in time, let the thumb ends of your staffs go behind your back as you cross your arms on top of your head, and keep going till you end up with each staff on the wrong side of your head and your fists near your opposite ears (a bit like taking off a jumper but getting confused). As the staffs form a diagonal cross, you're bending down and trapping the centre of the cross under your chin, so that as the staffs get horizontal you're going up into a handstand.

On the way out you can leave them trapped under your chin, and come out with some double fishtailey stuff when you get bored...

cheeky monkey.

i'm happily playing right now with those cross transfers you me and dave were experimentinginventing out front in graz....

description pending when i work out this last transfer.....

R

wow sounds brilliant.

I've been doing cartwheels with a staff balanced on the back of the neck, in the same way as Moseph does the cross lock (I reckon) although my variation sounds a bit like its old news

oh well. I plod along

josh

josh, if you call the pace of your inventiveness 'plodding along' then i my brain will explode if i see u at full tilt.

hippies, always so humble

ps waistwrap horiz throws to palming catches.

toss from behind the back with my right hand, step underneath the staff while in midair and catch the staff in fiont of me whil keeping the rotation. (i know you all could do that stuff but I have been doing staff for only 2 mths ..)

one of my favorites (dont know if its been posted cuz im far too lazy to read all the posts :P) is a contact move:

(i like bender's system.. dont mind if i steal bender.. thanx :P )
1. extend left elbow horizontally out ahead of you and wrap the staff around your bent arm
2. extend left arm and let the staff roll over your left hand
3. straight onto your right arm(which you by now have extended too by the way )
4. (this is the trickiest part) pull in your right arm as the staff is on the back of your fingers and extend the right elbow as you did the left
5. the staff should automatically roll over your right elbow and then you can catch it with right hand

dont know if this is very clear.. its def. not one i made up but it looks really sweet

oh, and theres one mot taught me which i havent been able figure out completely

lets say you just spun the staff behind your back from left hand to right and are about to bring it back to the front (simple little trick, i know, but im horrible with names
instead of just bringin it round, you roll it onto the back of your hand and swing it round to the front and end up doing a figure 8 on the back of your hand

takes a lot of balance and all, but it looks really cool if youre up close, otherwise its as theyre just doing figure 8

wow, i just realized what an old thread this is... shame on you, allyou staffers

i have a couple of signature moves, one of which i haven't used in over a year... that is a staff-point handspring, the second is done blindfolded. i jump over my staff, held in both hands shoulder-width apart, and back again. the third i have is a palmspin, carried from overhead to behind the back (while ducking,) and transfered from the right to left hand, then overhead again. if there's enough spin left in it, i like to move forward, spin-stepping in counter-rotation to the spin of the staff.

*jumps for joy*
hihii, i think i might have one..ive never seen anyone else do it.. its nothing spectacular but until someone proves me wrong im gonna take credit for this one
its just the pass behind the head but then instead of bringin it back down you turn around, switch hands and keep turning so it goes behind your head again.. and keep going and going and going and going.. untilyou fall over from diziness..