What are you working on now?

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?

Hyperloop

Antispin flower

picture (or even better, video) paints a 1000 words

Curious - the antipsin flower only makes three circles. But
it does have 4 extreme positions...

yup, from each position to the next
(i use the bits where the poi are pointing straight out from or straight in toward the centre as a reference)
they move three quarters of a circle

yep - its the classic 'big circle with small circles counting problem'.

you need to count beats as they pass the arm (i.e. at the centre of the big circle) rather than at the bottoms of the little circles.


cole. x

Aaah - I think this crucial bit of infomation will reveal
the secret of anti-spin flowers to world!!


So that means a non-anti-spin spun flower makes
5 circles.. (5/4 turn for each position)

yep, 5 circles:

1 big one + 4 little ones

innit


cole. x

Right!

And so the anti-spin makes 4 little ones minus 1 big one (=3 circles)

by george i thnk he's got it...!


counting the total 'circles' in the pattern is counter-intuitive so instead, we count beats as the poi pass our arms.

when it comes to spinning goofy flowers (one arm normal spin, one arm antispin), this helps no end - otherwise you're trying to reconcile a 5 circle pattern with a 3 circle pattern and it all gets a bit hectic wherease counting beats from the centre leads to a 4 beat pattern with each arm


cole. x

Finally! I find the crucial pieces of information to help clean up my antispin flowers! thanks guys

Personally i'm working on somethin again I don't really know the name. It's a move you can do with basically almost anything that wraps. Instead of letting the poi head do the bounce back you let your arm take the knockback movement. This makes the poi almost stay still while the arm moves. This can actually look pretty cool with certain things, and it makes for some interesting spinning since most people just continue playing with the knockbacks it was more interesting for me to play with like fullarm knocbacks, I'm sure I can get it to flow nicely with some flowers.

Cheers