What are you working on now?

I learnt some nice moves in the last few months: some BTB waistwraps, flowers, the reverse isolated buzzsaw, the 4beat windmill etc. etc. Now I'm trying to put them toghether and being able to use them in a routine or while doing some freestyle...

And then I MUST learn the turns while doing the windmill!

Well done Sing!Nice to see you there!!!

And for updating here my work...
48 catches with 3 poi cacade and I must have it really solid 'till the end of the summer.
2 poi throttle... hybrids and some antispin weave to use instead the normale one...

Acciaio

Tonight I smoothed out forwards 3bt btb weave and then was working on reverse 5bt btb weave... and I can already tell my shoulders are going to cane me tomorrow!

Transition from forward 5bt weave to BTB weave... And from BTB weave, linking to like just any move I already know.

Im working on flowers.. I sort of got those round petal flowers, but those sharp ones that ive seen yuta and meenik do. In my opinion, it is the most breathe-taking and gorgeous poi move. Although it may be hard, i believe it will be the move i am most satisfied with.

Also working on manipulating isolations around my body. Very nice move, only, with fire poi its kind of hard to know if the person is doing an isolation or not... Atleast it doesnt look anywhere near as clean as it does with socks. Or is that just me?

Isolations look "better" or "cleaner" with socks because you typically see them in the daytime and see the whole sock, and therefore have a larger object for reference to notice the center of rotation changing. With firepoi you typically see them at night and on fire and can't usually make out much of the chain, so its not as easy to notice the rotation point and such because the fire itself is so bright and distracting.S'just how it it.

and those sharp pointed flowers you are talkin about are Antispin flowers, they ROCK!

Exactly my point. Do you know a thing or two about antispin flowers that you can teach me? I would appreciate any advice given to me.

the biggest problem I have with flowers is getting the arm to go straight when it is behind me, and that has a knock on effect of making it tricky to keep in plane, at least for me.

still working on antispin flowers with forward arms, also experimenting with antispin/isolated horizontal pendulumy type things that go high and low, getting a bit closer to getting them looking nice now

right now im working on btb antispin weaves

1 poi, 1 nun-chuck. you'd have to see it to believe it. open hand technique with the chuck, organized chaos with the poi.

Throws - continuous btb, but to same hands - I should try
proper back crosses. But this is all getting too close to
'I need 3 poi' for my liking

Isolating isolations

I've given up on 5bt weave for now... cos try as I might (and I understand what I'm "supposed" to do), I can't do it...

Have started playing around with airwraps and some wrist wrap type thingies... seem to be taking to that a lil better...

5beat weave is not too hard, just get the 3 beat slow and perfect then watch the 5beat tutorial loads. mines still sloppy though

Im trying to get BTB 3beat weave, its proving a nightmare. I can do BTB butterfly reasonably well now though

Ive moved into a new class of moves, away from weaves, butterfly, corkscrew, chasing the sun to BTB stuff, hyperloops, waist wraps, antispin flowers, butterfly weaves. Its both fun and irritating at the same time

hey, geeza/mico... thx for the encouragement... I completely agree... I know it'll come one day, I'm just not going to waste a whole lot of time struggling with it... come back to it every now and then I think...

I can sorta get the 5bt, one side @ a time, but they're always tangling if I try to put it altogether... and stretchy sock poi is what I use 95% of the time... only play with the real ones occasionally cos they hurt a lot more when they (inevitably) hit me.

I was picking stuff up really pretty quickly I think, but 5bt and reverse TTN slowed me down; actually they stopped me cold... can TTN forwards (I think it's called forwards) but not reverse... I keep telling myself when to thread, but the hands don't listen

im working on setting up a community circus "little devils circus" for kids almost there got a meeting next week at the bank to get the account open, i ahev all the equiptment bought for me by a nice youth club and then im ready to go, got a few bookings all ready.

poi - tidy up utl hyperloops, ifnit. hyperloops, flowers

devil sticks - this buzz saw thing

diabolo - cage grind

contact - everything lol

hat - everything lol

juggling - most things lol

apart from that not much at all

poi: two different moves involving antispin (one've which i've posted and shown people [via video]) and the other i started working on yesterday...needless to say i've got waaay too much time on my hands

CJ: cleaning up armrolls, stalls, isolations, and overall performance

YAAAAYYYY!!!

I read through a whole bunch of the old poi threads @ work yesterday and I found a tip that gave me the reverse TTN... so I can now TTN both ways...

the wraps are going nowhere fast, but I've only just started, so no need for discouragement just yet...

im working on doing kip ups while doing poi (see 'mixing poi with acrobatics and dance' thread)

oh... well... I got someone else doing reverse TTN last night in about 2 minutes, geeza... so, here's what helped erin and I...

with forwards TTN, you thread the top hand forwards... when trying reverse, I was thinking too much about where the poi were arcing to start with... instead I started thinking about threading the "bottom" hand forwards instead and it just started working... I had it in a couple minutes and last night, so did erin... good luck

nice work on the btb and wraps... I've really only just started playing with wraps and haven't succeeded in anything other than hitting myself, but try, try, try... and haven't tried ANYTHING btb yet... even bringing the poi overhead once screws me up right, don't like it when I can't see the poi

This week I am mostly learning backwards 5bt weave and btb 3bt weave... with little success and many injuries...

In of move:

-Anti(Spin) - Shaping, Hybrid move, Polar weave, Pull & Push

Out of move:

- Feuershow.de - Tutorial check out
- Baton - September classes
- Ubeurope 11-13 (Vienna)
- Tuesday - Workshop for Smeries

Insideout:

- Valurus - Electronic encyclopoidia

lightning,

:R

thanks pogo, i'll try threading the bottom hand forwards tonight. worked out how to do weave double bicep wrap last night, i just didnt need and wrap one to get butterfly. stupid me!

working on btb butterfly weave atm, and its turning out horribly. for the first time in ages i find myself hitting my nuts, a feeling I really didn't miss.

Straightjackets continue to foil me. The planes simply refuse to get straight with these jackets. Ending up with the poi heading straight for my jacket.

ok... forwards 5bt still happening, but ugly... reverse 5bt not happening @ all, but I think I sorta understand it... kinda...

got a wrist wrap thingie going that can take butterfly to weave and back... needs more work, but is nice to finally have something that can move between the 2, relatively smoothly...

also working on an isolated 3bt weave... well... really just a 3bt with isolations in the middle

ummm.. just playing with some really stoopid stuff!

attempting to isolate btb waist wrap, with limited sucess.

a silly one = 2:1 and 3:2 polyrythm isolations (really look strange if the timings on!) damn you cole!

playing with negative space stalls and wraps hoping to find something tasty.

Hybrids are fun at the moment.

btb inverted antispin 7 beat iso weave hybrid to late double backflip headstand....... i call it spaghetti junction! (please note: must be drunk, naked, on a trampoline to attempt.)

god im bored......

Bûzrael = btb butterfly weave sounds fun, im off to have a go!

well, iv never had the money to get any vidios n stuff, so the only tym i get to learn things is if there just happens to be a pro in town (eg.we have a festival every sept.) so, iv learnt several thing on my own, and have no idea what there called. so if anyone wantsta tell me what a "shoulder reel", or a “hyperloop” is, it would be much apreciated. iv also been told that "antispin" is wen ur hand goes the oposit direction to the poi. what exactly dose that mean? any vidios?