Fountains

Oh gosh O_O I learnt this move one year ago and I do that with or without windmill doesn' t matter... and I didn' t know it was a "fountain", I used to call it Sun O_O but I saw all this fighting 'bout it and I felt like a little poor child ignoring the main systems of the universe O____O :P

on the media circus thing - do they only do 5 circles...i could only see 5 - right, infront, left, left behind shoulders and high right then back to right - i think im getting that although i keep hitting my head when im doing the shoulder bit - any tips for that?

also how do you make it a 6 circle one - do you do a behind the shoulder on the right as the extra one?

thank you all for your help - im getting there slowly!

p.s. can totally do a 4 circle one (right low front, left, high front) - so just need the extra 2 circles...

p.p.s. whats the o__o? looks entriguing

Yep - the media circus clip has 6 circles for each clup.
Circle 1 (with the red club), starts the pattern off with a shoulder circle on the right.

It might take a while to dig through fully, but have a read through Lesson 18 of Anna Jillings' Modern Club Swinging and Pole Spinning book, it goes into a fair bit of detail, and also shows half fountains.
Actually, that whole book is very good (the index is here.

Now, this is a fountain.

haha thats really cool

update: im doing the middle low circle wrong...am working on it - its the twisting i've got to master

o no - wait i am doing it right - when u go from the right circle to the low one in front of you - you change from anticlockwise to clockwise

i think im getting it - just need to practice now

will tell you when i've completely got it

thanks for all of your help!

p.s. im taking it that there is 1 circle behind the shoulder on each shoulder - and that from the poiers point of view the circles are going anticlockwise-clockwise-anticlockwise etc.

UPDATED: is there a knack to getting from the low bit to the over the shoulder bit as i keep whacking my head and the poi are out of control!...

UPDATED...AGAIN: ooo ooo ooo i can do that bit now - its getting back to the beginning thats the trouble - i have to bend a lot to get them to go the right way!

yay i can do it!!!
wooooooooo

thank you bovril monkey,richee, zero g and the wibbler!!!

am i right in thinking a fountain is just a forward weave to a backward weave on the same side. so moving in a circle weaving? if so i just did it, seems too easy though??!

geeza, if I'm reading what you're saying correctly, then yes that's all it is. It really is that easy. You can play with accelerating the speed of the poi as the forward weave is coming down, then reverse weave it back up slowly ( no windmill in this move, right? good ) You can also play with looking up into this move, if your a head postures kind of guy. Soon you'll figure out that you can turn this pattern too, which is quite a bit easier than turning a flower.

thanks stout. i just did the fountain thing then continued it on the other side (a fountain of 8?) adding a windmill to the top is quite good fun aswell.

im finally becoming more fluid i think and linking moves together. like giant windills to hand wrap to a wrap on arm to butterfly..... etc. getting more and more fun. also managed a behind the back beat alternating, to turn that into a weave IS going to annoy me! managed the btt butterfly sort of though

I have a question... Even after reading I tried to understand and still quite didn't get it. But I think I'm doing a Fountain.

I do 3bt weave to low-reverse... Go from reverse to high normal (where I do kind of a 4beat movement to let it make a circle in front of me, and then pass it on to the forward 3bt.

Not using any windmill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vT6-O4pw_I

enjoy -my poor attempt at a fountain