Your most impressive move

granted, you can change from butterfly to weave and back by 'forcing' the poi into the correct direction without stopping them. However, this is detrimental to flow, which in my opinion is the essence of poi

My most impressive move is probably a pop - wallspin or maybe a double leg.

Unfortunately, these have nothing to do with poi. With poi, I can only do simple stuff, like fountain or corkscrew.

i managed to get them split time

I hit myself in the groin once

Everyone was pretty impressed i didn't pass out or singe da nuts

My favourite move is called the rodeo. I'd like to say I invented it, however someone probably did it first as I have only been doing poi sinse xmas. You start by doing the weave with one foot infront of the other, you then put one poi between your legs and keep it spinning, the other poi is swung in circles like a lassoo above your head. You then spend agers riding the low spinning poi around the place shouting meaningless cowboy phrases like Yee-Haw, youy dirty varmant and WHISKY!!!Best wearing chaps and cowboy hat for full efect!

well.. my new personal favorite 'most impressive move' would have to be this one [that, as far as i know, doesnt have a name]...

floor plane hyperloop above my head, down in front of my face + between my arms, turn and it comes out as a wall plane buzzsaw.

Likwit, can I get a video of that?

--*edit*-- i think i'll call this the 'waterfall' --*edit*--

sure sure..

once i get a camera (hah.. sry =X )

heres a better description, tho..

--corkscrew, w/ the poi goin counterclockwise (you can probably do it clockwise, but this is the way i learned it first.. its whatever ).

--right after you bring 'em above your head, and before you go back down, get your arms straight up and down, and go into a hyperloop, then bring it down (below your head) + let it untangle (still in floorplane). once you get this down, move on to the next step..

--start to bring your right arm down a bit while leaving your left in the same position. this will bring the poi (still in a hyperloop) between your arms.

--imagine you have a wheel spinning on a stick (which is going right through the center of the "wheel").. you're going to be turning the stick and bringing it down so its horizontal (bringing the hyperloop from floorplane to wallplane) while still between your arms.

--theres lots you can do at this point... you can just take it down without turning your body (ends up as a forwards buzzsaw), or turning your body anywhere from 90 - 180 degrees, which will put you in a reverse buzzsaw.

hope that helps

Pendulum Weave - Almost all moves using independent spinning technique

Because I heretofore have been unable to do isolations and I still can't translate hyperloops from my sock poi to my chains, I'd have to say that my most impressive (to me, because it's just such a random thing that is actually *impressively* easy to learn) move would be where I'm in fowards butterfly, I go down onto my back and then switch to one-handed butterfly, hold and then stand up, keeping the one handed butterfly floor-plane over my head.

the move i just learnt, a reverse 4 beat butterflytime thread the needle

ooooooooo I just learnt behind the back threading the needle properly, i can also do behind the back buzzzsaw!!

throwing my arms above my head and letting the music take control get's the audience I've found. chaos rocks. also.... for people who spin themselves. I huge variety of ways in and out of butterflies gets them. one way is: out of a corkscrew, from a 2 bt or a 22 bt... it does not matter. when your arms are above your head, palms facing eachother, and the poi are straight out from your knuckles, notice that they would be moving opposite directions if the were on your sides. so you switch the planes, one to either side of your body instead of both above your head, then merge them together on one sde of your body. voila, butterfly. that is one of many transitions that are so called "impressive"

I do this pretty easy move where you start in a windmill, then go into a giant windmill and as your arms are sticking straight out vertically to the sides you stop for a second letting each poi do one rotation then go immediately into this single giant pirouette thing and from there you can either move directly into a weave/flower/whatever you want.

mine would have to be a split time 6bt long-arm short-arm outwards isolated thread the needle... with a smile of course...

i like my 6btTTN

i learned a well phat move behind the back weave and buzzsaw together

anti spin butterfly flower or weave