Do YOU hit yourself alot while practicing??

I generally beat myself silly at every opportunity!

I do. I was trying the btb weave, and I smacked the back of my legs, which left bruises, I smacked my left ear, at the top, where my stud is, that made it bleed. I smack myself all over the place, hurts.

if i hit myself than i know i'm having a good practice

I hit myself frequently, but as I am just learning then I suppose it's to be expected.

With each new move I seem to find a brand new place to hit myself.

Knocked my galsses clean off more times than I'd care to admit

Spining something weighty on a lenth of chain around your head!!!
Its enevitable that you will hit your self ocasionaly usualy thats OK but twice now i have hit myself in the head hard enouth to draw blood and both times iv been on a beach with no way of stoping the bleading.

Live life in a spin but if you fall dont come crying to me!!!!

i decided that those pants to make you thinner might help. i've being trying some btb stuff, but my bum keeps getting hit... if only it were smaller......

I'm relativly new to poi too, so still hit myself loads. My head was getting so badly hit when I tryed teaching myself some btb stuff that I had to wear a cycle helmet!!

Still haven't really managed it.

Well as a n00b I feel this is one thread I can easily jump in on.

I hit myself. A lot. Most of my head hits haven't been too bad but there's one where I keep nailing myself on the cheekbone and it smarts like hell. Someday that's gonna connect hard and give me a shiner. *grin*

hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well um....
my worst was the night i couldnt be bothered putting up my hair properly so threw it up in a loose ponytale
(now realise my hair was down to my butt) anyway as i swung my poi behind my back it caught the bottom of my ponytale and..... well......... now i have short hair.
lol

In the start i hit myself alot, but now its quite rare. After only 2 weeks of noraml poi's i wanted to try fire. Of course i hit myself and got a few burn here and there. Now i never hit myself, only when trying to advance by learning new stuff.

Happily not as much as I used to

YaY Me!

i hit my self almost every time i spin only once or twice though untill i get going, there very attracted to my head & other gentle parts!

no, not a lot, although i did when i learnt 3bt fwd weave, that was a bitch, but now i'm fine.... until i try to learn something else

I'm trying to get the overhead butterfly right... and sometimes put my arms over my head too far.... and smack myself in the back... they've also got tangled quite a bit which has led me to smacking myself in the face :P

crosses have been proving quite difficult to me, i can do them and most variations now. Though i have smacked myself around the head and back quite a lot doing so (and nuts, which hurts an aweful lot with 120gram juggling balls!)

I'm practising with my meteor at the moment, and hitting myself far more often than with poi - I have to keep reminding myself that I'm not as advanced. Yet.

yh i always hit my self in practice!
back of the heads the worsed for me!
although if im showing ppl poi its normally alrite.

I once, when learning btb weave, kept hitting myself in the same place again and again. In my fury i threw the poi away from me, shouting my rage. It didn't occur to me until midway through my hissy fit that the poi were attatched to my hands, thus causing one of them to swing back round and smack me in the teeth.

Not my proudest moment

You will allmost allways hit yourself at least once with new moves. I still do when I try to transition sometimes. Though when I spin I am allmost ALLWAYS transitioning. So I get too wrapped up sometimes. As you get better they will slow and you will know when they are about to happen so you can dodge. Wear tighter cloths (your not alone ive had a blood spot in my eye from glowsticks once and used to get 7 6 in, welts every day)

Bizarrely, my wrists always take a battering. Another reason why I always wear leather cuffs...