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

Now now... that's not the right attitude to have! Where would any of us be if we gave up poi and staff at the first few hundred bumpy painful hurdles?

I used to wear sh*tloads of jewelery on my wrists and neck for I took up staff. Now I'm Al Dente...!

*chuckle* ... alright... I haven't given up... I'm giving my brain a rest...

I'm posting this one on behalf of my 7yo, isaac... he can do a very, VERY smooth figure-8 on the left, the right and two-handed now...!! and he's playing with all sorts of behind the back, overhead and horizontal stuff too... he actually does quite well when he just lets himself go, freestyle...

I've also started him on doubles... simple one beats...


see the corresponding poi thread for news of lachie's (11yo) progress... (he's taken much better to poi, than staff)

oooh... and YAY for my children (two of them, anyway) taking to spinning...!!

i just learnt fishtails properly

I learnt how to do a dodgy cartwheel with a staff on my neck

hmmm... well, I've been a bit distracted in the last couple weeks, so not a great deal of progress with anti-spin/isolations etc... although, that said, I am now able to relatively seamlessly integrated most of what I already know into my freestyle spinning

on a more important note, however, is my cunning plan to "give up" working on fishtails (and contact in general). I got a brief bout of inspiration yesterday evening and picked up my contact staff; and I could kinda-sorta get fishtails going... not continuously ad infinitum, but a few (to several) rotations at a time, and was then able to link it into that "push the staff up onto your shoulder, then have it rotate across/behind your neck, till it comes back out over the other shoulder" thing...

progress!! albeit slow and unintentional...

A halo gratz, just think, baby steps.

*chuckle* ... thanks, poje... baby steps is very much what contact feels like; fall down all the time, lots of tears, no progress whatsoever followed by sudden spurts of synchronicity...

Got 7131 (hi-low shower) for 3 cycles (and a load of times for 2 cycles)

Landed 531 once but really shady, the staves went out of wall plane to rescue it.

^^All with 90cm firestaffs^^

fishtail > Halo > LH fishtail

Babysteps - contact is kinda like teach a baby to walk - you will lead it in a certain direction but it will decide where it wants to go (due to either gravity & centrifuge or free will) in the end you will just be there to support it

So proud of you Pogo! and for thinking about giving up in the first place! Quitter...

And while I'm on a roll - GET YOUR HAIRCUT YA HIPPY!!

heh... well... the quitting thing seems to work for me, so

can now do right-handed reverse fishtails quite consistently... and use it to lead from/into other moves... working on the left... also working on being able to do both left and right (no, not simultaneously... yet...) with the lil double staffs. the other contact stuff really is being hampered by all this hair... need to learn to live with it piled up in a permanent pineapple, cos I'm sure not ready to cut it...

I'm trying to get the conveyor-belt-into-the-jesus (does that have an actual name?) but I just can't get it :-z

 Written by: Pogo69


*chuckle* ... thanks, poje... baby steps is very much what contact feels like; fall down all the time, lots of tears, no progress whatsoever followed by sudden spurts of synchronicity...

I don't think so just practice and it shall come it should be quite quick if you have a conveyor - halo (continuous) and jesus solid on their own.

ok... so fishtails aren't impossible, after all... I can do reverse fishtails pretty consistently and with pretty good control now on the right... the left is still at the dodgy stage... forwards fishtails are still considered impossible

also getting into the halo a lot more smoothly from either the conveyor or fishtails... and have begun work on being able to halo continuously...

this stuff seems to just "click" all of a sudden... it just takes longer for some of us to connect the dots

360 fishtail turns

yay finally got a few beats of dual paralell fishtails both hands in front

Yay for all fellow staffers!

Continuous angel rolls both ways. Strangely the direction I've not practiced much on (Left-to-Right) is better and more consistent than the one I've practiced non-stop on (Right-to-Left))

Headspins (including a Steve-to-headspin)

Head wraps (including one from Angel Roll)

I don't even know if I'm calling things the right name, or if it makes sense, cos I'm working out some of this stuff on my own, but...

I call them front-plane anti-spin flowers... so... imagine you're doing regular double-staff flowers... but one forwards, one backwards... then turn 90deg, so that you're facing forwards, with the flower now spinning in front of you... then reverse the direction of your hands, so that the staffs are anti-spinning...

tada... so what should I be calling this? or have I not described it, sufficiently? I need a method of video-taping some stuff, damnit...

Yes you do...

I'm not good with names, or really imagining what people are describing. I need to see it for myself!

But I'm guessing what you are doing looks pretty sweet.

Keep it up dude!