Contact poi

Rovo...go watch some bluecat vids, you'll see plenty of snags in there (if it's what I'm thinking of) out into hyperloops and various other manipulations. They've very similar to whip toss/catches, just a lot more stable
To get out of a snag is quite easy if you cheat Just grap the string of the poi just after the knot between the knot and the tail end. Pull a little and it all comes apart. Nobody notices either and they just go

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feels better than it sounds, SCH.

Yeah damn straight, I think that's when you know it's right in contact (and all spinning!!) it feels wonderful

I can't beleive all the wonderful things in here that folks are coming up with; Linden, OFS, Rovo you've given me some ace ideas to play with later

OvertlyFlirtatiousSpork and Linden - Are you coming to PLAY? You should

I've been workin on lots of double props lately, same direction, opposite direction, the in same/split time etc. Mixing it with double wibbles too and trying to get it to work nicely (what a brain f#@k! Worse than antispin flower turns I'm sure! ) is super tough, it's there tho, now if I can just find the time to practice more!!

nice one, bro.

i've been playing around a bit with entering these from one-handed butterflys, and releasing one, catching it with the held poi in midair.. could also go into a hyperloop from this catch instead of "snaggin" it...

kewl, I'd forgotten all about snags actually! Especially since the bluemogg started taking them to new and thoroughly silly dimensions!! well something to play with this summer when uni work is long behind me ... until then.... I shall not procrastinate too much on HoP, but study study study!!! eeep!

Man, I got loads of new ideas and stuff to share, just no time to write it up... sounds like PLAY is gonna be a wicked trick exchange ground though

thanks for all the inspiration in the thread BTW
Loz x

Damn it. I've not been playing with poi for ages. Unicycling and cj have taken over my life. I'll try and come to Play it looks like it'll be fantastic.

I just learned the cj equivalent of a full steve so am a little over the moon about that.

Here's a little challenge for you all... try throwing a hyperloop (releasing both hands) and catching the heads. Now try and do the same but have the handles hyperloop after you catch.

Have fun

contact meteor > poi. :P

having seperable degrees of freedom are the key... i try to backport furiously into poi. i likez it.

seperate hands from the center and suddenly there are 2 paths around each leg with wide swings around the hips, a big fat hint on what counts as "inside", where each 180degree twist hits, and have a natural buzzsaw thru wrap point.

oh. and you can jump over it!

sorry if that's repetitious... i didn't read most of what's above, just making note.

really tnx for the snag idea!!!
It sound cool and I'm going to try something with!!!

I'm really sad that I cannot come to PLAY festival...
anyone is gonna going to Paris? In Italy no one practice contact poi and I can take idea only from this topic unfortunately...
I need some exchange!!!!

Acciaio

oooh, might be coming to Paris....

not one but the master!!!

waiting to learn from you soon!!!



Acciaio

ohh snags look fun

dunc - i should be at play - hopefully..... looking forward to many a trick exchange - i probably should go practice some more........

so excited about play!! sounds like there's going to be a lot of inspiration there

and not long now!! as of tomorrow we are in PLAY-month

yay for play month

really should get my ticket... but really should make sure i can get there first....

Might I just say that your contact poi workshop at Play was chuffing brilliant I was only observing it but was still fascinating. Plus, the "my name is joe" wind-down had me in stitches

Nice one

~Adz

I've been messing around with contact hyperloop/airwrap stuff. I've been trying wibbles into airwraps which are pretty cute. Also been doing stands on my legs which are a pain in the ass (literally).

ive been working on alot of contact since play (thank you laura ),
i've got some cool moves, like kickups to whip catches (really hard to get right, but it works most of the time).
umm... ok i only have 1 cool move... i need to work on those propellors... i've been thinking of doing a handroll into an airwrap, but first i gotta get those propellors right...

slightly off topic, but i thought, what the hell..

been playing around with this:

fwd ttn. one handed in the right hand. release the lhp so it spins clockwise, up and to the right. on the upstroke with your rhp, tangle the poi halfway btwn head and handle (in midair, you ken). relax for half a beat. on the upstroke give the rhp a bit more juice (this'll help the lhp untangle). catch the lhp in your left hand. spiral unwrap the lhp from the head to the handle, in a clockwise fashion.

wa-la (:P), you're back in fwd ttn.

i so hope that makes sense.

thanx.

I just added a video in the video section demonstrating the family of contact poi moves I call snags. Since I am not all that good at text descriptions this video should clear up what I tried to explain in that earlier post.

I just wondered if many poiple are making progress with propellors- mine are getting a lot cleaner and more stable

yeah man, you go!!!
Today I was working on some buzzsaw propellor stuff... I'm just trying to get one sweet rotation on each hand and then return to buzzsaw (isolated). But I think it's really time I made some new poi! sock poi just don't cut it. In any slightly humid atmosphere the friction of the socks increases ten-fold and you can do hardly any contact at all!!!
grumble moan.... ah well, it's long since time to join the ranks of non-strechy poi by now anyway!

PS. I've just updated the first post in this thread to try and collate as many ideas as I can in one place.... kinda nice, cos I'd forgotten a lot of the things I was trying a couple of years ago!! Gonna get back on the case again now though