Contact poi

Managed to get a trapped butterfly and reverse low wave in my shoulders. I'm looking at doing things with my knees and am thinking about a 'hollywood roll' (the batton twirling move) in the horizontal plane.

sounds great

I just worked something interesting out.

In a weave do a nosedive (my name for a downwards release) then kick the poi back up and do a suicide round the other arm. Dependant on which way you decide to do the suicide you can use it to transition into butterfly or back into weave.

Cool move!!!
How do you do the kick???you hurt the head or the poi body???
I like tray to do something like a wibble then i always kick near the handle the poi body...

Now I'm finding new ways to play poi in contact but I cannot explain myself in english enough well (in Italian too is difficoult to describe that moves) as soon as I can I make some videos and opena new topic...

Acciaio

You hit the head but its more of a catch and throw back up than a kick. All you want to do is get the poi back so you can catch it for the suicide.

Sure!!!

Acciaio

been playing with this a lot

and im sorry if this move has already been listed somewhere

have no idea what to call it - its a bit like a hand cuff move and it requires weighted handles (atm my handles are 75g and my heads 125g - i think)

using the right hand (RH) spinning clockwise (to you) in the wall plane, go to do a lower arm wrap on the left arm aiming to have the head contact on the inside of the arm (ie the string nearly completes one wrap of your arm)

once the head hits the inside of your arm release it - hopefully the handle will swing round - proform the same action but with the handle wrapping on your right arm,

this will then go into a lot of nice variations - some ive found are propellers on the right arm - reversing the poi as well as making a nice way of entering an elbow trap



another nice move ive found im calling the slinky

basically on one side (say the right) do an upper arm wrap from below (ie your spinning forward) aim to wrap about half way down the poi length release alowing the handle to keep spinning and proform another wrap on the lower arm - carefully timed arm movements will put you in a propeller

I've just figured out a new contact move. 9bt wrist wrap swaps.

From 7bt weave on your right hand side. Wrap the right hand poi round your left wrist as normal now release both poi. If you get the timing right the left hand poi should fly straight up and the right hand one should should do one beat of wrist wrap. Catch the left hand poi with your right hand and the right hand one with your left. Repeat on the other side and walk away knowing you are a jedi

and a jedi now talks of discovering a new "move"! ah, beware, for his ways are those of the dark side....

lol Well someone has to be evil.

everyone knows evils more fun anyway

*pulls him self back on topic

been trying lots of throws to propellers a nice move to a grip ive found that its fairly easy to move to an elbow grip from a an under arm throw then you can propeller the poi into position

I'm finding that under leg throws to propellors are looking really sexy!
Also, I just found out (Duh) that messing up a propellor when using 4ft heavy curb link chains can really, really hurt! Ouch!

try swinging 20kg anchors.

ouch.

but at least i did it.



-off topic- i know.

I've been working a lot on high and low wave contact stuff. A few propellors and traps and have a cool new thingy to try. Reverse low wave and release the left hand under the left leg. Now catch the poi (anywhere) with the right elbow (this takes practice to get the timing) and move into high wave. Both poi should go over the right shoulder at the same time (again a timing thing). Now release the right hand poi over your head and catch it with the left and move the traped elbow poi to your right hand.

Have fun

sounds cool OFS been trying more bits and pieces and propellers to air wraps are VERY sexy

under leg then over opposite arm throws are also pretty fun as well

anyway of to tangle myself some more

I've been playing with diablo for the past couple of days and started doing airwrap suicides and some nice whip catch stuff

if anyone can do all those crazy moves...thats the most amazing thing ive ever heard of. ;@ i have to try this.

feels better than it sounds, SCH.

If anyone can do these moves while stoned and listening to Incubus... that'll be the most amazing thing I've ever heard.

I've been doing something I call handle snags or just snags for short for a while now, but just realized they were a contact move today.

These moves are all done from hyperloops and airwraps but there are probably some other ways to get into them.

The basic idea is to make a loop with one poi by holding the handle and head in one hand and then snag the handle of the other poi on the loops so it stays connected to the looped poi.

The simplest version of this starts in an airwrap. In this example I'll loop the right poi and snag the left while doing an airwrap with the poi spinning to the left. When you enter the airwrap grab the right poi head immediately after the twist begins. Once you grab the head let go of the left poi handle and just try and stall it to the right. If you stop right there the left handle shoud be caught in the loop made by the other poi. Once you get the idea of how to catch the handle in the loop there's lots of different things you can do with it. You can swing the snagged poi back up in a circle, add this to the end of a hyperloop, or even use it as a release to go into a throw.

That is a basic snag. The snagged poi can easily come out of the loop and go flying. It takes a little practice to figure out when you should grab the other poi.

To lock the snag in so it won't come undone all you have to do is add in an extra twist before you loop the poi and you can spin the con-joined poi however you want and they won't come apart. Exiting a locked snag can be tricky though. I'm still not sure what the easiest way to exit is so you'll have to play around with that on your own.

The next snag involves air wraping right at the handles for at least 3 twists then when you release the left handle it will catch and then unwind around the other poi. You'll be in what looks like a one handed same direction bf but you'll only be holding one handle and after a few turns the other handle will break free and the poi will go flying. The more twists you add the longer you can hold the onehanded move. I usually exit this by grabbing the snagged poi before it releases and doing an airwrap or hyperloop.

Some other ideas I'm working on with this are double snags, double snagged throws and trying to enter a snag with out being in an airwrap or hyperloop.


I hope this makes sense. Now I'm going to go play.