Contact poi

well, it's like doing normal suicide moves but from butterfly. So for example, butterfly (left clockwise, right anti-clockwise) wrap the right poi around the left arm so it suicides around it but it's opposite direction to the poi in the left hand.
And visa versa for sides and directions.

Sorry if that makes no sense I'm crap at explaining

No, yes, yes, that makes sense, I just wasn´t quite sure what a suicide was, but I getcha, and yeah I like this move! Did you know you can actually keep it going for a few beats in propellor!?
Oh and I been trying the poigling stuff, not easy, but much scope for contact poi mixed with contact juggling! waheyyyyyyyy!

Oh, and with the butterfly (suicide) arm-roll you can actually turn 180° and the poi will fling off your arm - with a bit of practice you can control it stright into another propellor on the other hand. Who´s ya daddy?!

So if yo the daddy, does that make me the mommy? :um:

Been trying the butterfly propellors but it's stoopid hard to pull off anything more than two beats I've been swapping my propellors from arm to arm around a lot too, it's been real hard to keep it going but I managed (once) a vertical propellor with two passes to each arm and a beat between each before it fell off (read flew off into pot plants! ) but haven't gotten it that far again since. Damn these fleeting moment of insight and ability

I'd love to see the contact poigling, that must be sooper tricky

hehehhee :evilgremlin!!: some fun ideas:

propellor flowers and anti-spin propellor flowers good for breaking things around you.

propellor buzzsaw REALLY REALLY NICE! (works best starting from isolation) me likey mucho.

I don´t understand why it would look rude?!

ok....imagine watching a guy, doing buzzsaw propellors, from the side....remind you of anything?

a mime pretending to climb a rope really fast.

--ben

Yeah something like that

contact poi... i use stage balls that i ave converted to have chains on the end.. so they are poi but using nice 4 inch balls.

If you use sock poi, you have a weight in the end.
you can catch the end on you head and do a head balance (easier said than done) or maby in the crux (bend) of your arm and balance.

other moves involve catching the weighted end of the poi and doing some contact style moves... roll arround the arms etc...

its all new to me so make it up..
kev

got new photos in my gallery go look at them

yup been working on those I find the balance tends to be more of making the most of that "weighless" time while spinning the handle and holding the head. It's fun to see how long you can make it last....usually running around the room! getting lower and lower

head balance? kev? what, sounds pretty ace, but ehhh??!

So, some pretty looking contact stuff and not too hard:
butterfly propelloring - you can totally choose how hard you want to make it for yourself - I found that learning contact means a lot of frustration, many many hours of practice and still struggling to come out with consistent moves when I'm just spinning generally but !

So as a little light relief, I've been working on some easier moves that I can throw into general spinning and not worry too much about dropping! - ah we poi-ers have had it so easy, but maybe now we might get some respect from jugglers...anything's possible!


So, the idea is just to throw in the odd single propellor into a backwards/outwards TTN, one hand after the other. It looks very smooth and is fairly easy to control once you know how to propellor a bit (or even if you dont i guess!) , and then you can make nice combos out of the number of propellors you do... leads to many many possibilities. Lovely

laters
Lx

I don't think I want to know Tim!

... now this is getting silly ....
3 pages discussing moves and NOBODY got a friend with a (cheapass-) camera to post some vids????
c'mon people!!!!! we, the less talented, want to see too!!!!

laura does some funky stuff in one of meg's slack videos... an i've got a crummy little demo of something hidden over on spherc where you'll also find lots of footage of matt wibbling... and orbit took a few vids of kev doing his thing recently... it's all there, you just gotta find it dude!

at the same time though it'd be interesting to see what dunc's been up too! i've also seen tee&bee and boomshanka doin some funky mini meteor stuff lately.... AND has anyone ever got footage of ewan with his floppy toys?

I saw that video, duballstar, and I think Mand and I both were quite impressed.

It certainly gave me a few things to think about.

I been up to lots, but my wacked out pc means editing is tough as my old toughened boots. But, something will be available soon I promise, even if it's just a demo of propellors so folks can get the gist of it all

Bump! Coz i learnt a new contact move today.

I guess it comes under the sphere of contact/whip catch/hyperloop stuff but i like this thread so im gonna put it here.

I was playing with hyperloop throws today and i came upon an odd discovery.

You know if you do a normal hyperloop and catch the ends of the back of your hands to change direction? I did a hyperloop throw and caught the handle and end of the free poi on the back of my free hand, it changed direction, came out perfectly and i even caught it and did a wibble. I havent been able to repeat it perfectly yet, but if anyone can do this or has experimented, any tips?

Beth xx

how did you catch the handle AND the end of the thrown poi on the back of your free hand?? Sounds ace, but cant work out how to try it... elaborate!

and BTW, have amended the first post of this thread quite significantly - whip catches & hyperloop throws can definately be catagorized under contact poi