The staff "I've just learned a new move" thread

errrr, wrong thread I think.

Anyway, I learned to cartwheel using just the staff, the martial arts way. After a whole year of an injured knee.

ive just figured out and a reverse throw out from the opposite direction of the threee staff shower,i can just about get back into the shower afterwards but its very tricky.i am also working on my 3 staff flashes again a bit tricky this is in preparation for four staff shower,yes i have no life...................

Yesterday I learned Angel Rolls,

and I learned how not to smack myself in the face when matrixing

I also was playing around and did a (1/2) conveyer belt (wow i cant spell that word, wtf) into a halo...

elbow, wrist, halo


oh oh oh, and starting an SNES but after the neck wrap, pivoting and it goes into a halo.

it was a productive day.

What I am working on right now:

Other way prayer steve.

Other way matrix.

Prayer Matrix.

Meast 'Matrix' / Frontside 'Hula'.

Origami. (throat wrap to a step between the elbows, with your arms folder [gettit] then back to neck spins.)

Cont Minimal Beat Steves.

The low caged part of the caged steve, going the other direction, stopping at the shoulder and back the other way, cont.

4,5,6: from the pivot, 1 - elbow elbow pass, pivot, 2 - jesus, pivot, 3 - 360 halo, pivot. All in a row from the pivot.

6,7,8: 4,5,6 all joined up without any pivots in it.

angel angel. Angel to angel roll turning inwards, so that there are no fishtail beats. the angel travels to your finishing arm, you turn across your body, bending your elbow and pinching the staff slightly and then releaseing it very quickly, letting it roll back the other way. Trying to get it cont, but can't join them up perfectly yet.

Anti-Turn Prayer Steve,

Turning and keeping in prayer while the staff goes up and down your arms, but not around your neck.

In prayer, putting the staff on the back of your neck.

learned from chronos: anti-spin angel. weird halo roll that's actually a neck wrap. and that I really want to be able to do luceros with lowered arms...

Errr throat roll or frontside halo (whatever)

well double throat roll reverse into throat roll (and twice followed by a halo so technically jesus)

but Strugz claims 2 forward and 1 back = 1 and I can't argue the maths

I bent my stick:

thats not a new move meg

I learned how to spin in a plane that i;ve never seen anyone use

and combined it with stick swaps that only i know the secret of...

btb floor plane?

crap explanation:

make cross in front of you at 45's.

rotate the whole thing to that the top two wicks of each staff make a circle in the ceiling plane.... and another one at the bottom.... its a stick swap

you can do this over head and make the circles in wall plane front and back...

combine this with a one beat stick swap.. the one that reverses the direction of the staffs seamlesly and some some one beat over head butterfly action and your away on a trippy hack...

sounds a bit like drew's immortal "stirring the bowl of love..."

was having lot fun with continually changing planes during contact at the big green. Also I found lots of people were really impressed with jeuses which i've alway thought of as abit of a ugly move, so maybe I'll put abit of effort into getting them smooth.

Apart from that I managed to fall down a ditch and f up my ankle (again)grr. which means I'm not going to be able to play with my new footy stuff for ages.

ouch,
jesus's are great I can almost do them hands in pockets

A baton twirler in bournemouth was showing me and strugz some of her moves. she'd just won some silver medal, never seen a jesus before and thought it was great... she had this move called a monster roll, and was a bit put out when we told her it was ONLY half a matrix (round and under arm and across chest)

Heh.. yeah, those baton twirlers are insane.. watchin them do the matrix with that itty bitty stick.. sheesh. I've decided to watch baton for inspiration now.. just gotta get off my arse and start searchin the vids out.

As far as new moves, I finally found a flow with doubles, so lotsa stuffs. Prolly my favorites parrallel flowers (which don't feel clean at all, but apparently are), basic same direction weave, I can now get the same backspin arial that I do with poi (tryin to find a clean way to do butterfly kick still), various throws, and isolation play.. damn I'm lovin doubles .

Peace,
- Sui

Thought I'd finally get up to date with my contact progression.
Since starting around 14th July.
I can:
Paddle. Both directions.
Half fishtail, rerverse, both hands.
Elbow wrap. Both Elbows.
Conveyor belt. Both directions.
Fishtail. Reverse, both hands.
Angel roll, left & right.
Half Steve.
Pivot.

And a couple of semi-nailed moves I'm keeping under my hat.

I've just learned "the snap" the wood and metal on your staff snap completely and is only held together by the tape attaching the grip.....



dammit.

oh well thanks Strugz for the Tube good timing too I shall make it up this very evening

yay! finally playing with my stix again - has been a while - worked out a nice little anti-spun quarter steve-backspin-waist-leg-shin-foot thing which feels pretty good.

also slapping myself for only just working out matrix-steve transitions! its so easy i cannot for the life of me figure out why i didnt do this a year ago - so now playing with a whole bunch of variants.

also playing with some base-flyer doubles contact again - im pretty rusty though - but am getting back into it. Im trying to thing a bit more analytically about use of negative space which has helped work out some new transitions.

cheerio!
E

Trammel.

light,

:R

I met yoooooooooo!

trammel

sounds a bit like a triangulated cammel............. havnt seen one of those in a while........ is that how you got to uber europe to meet Meg?