Do YOU hit yourself alot while practicing??

I just started so yea, i hit myself quite often
almost knocked myself down when i tried the weave for the first time

I smacked myself in the temple the other day >_<

that hurt for 2 days.... it took me a whole day to figure out WHY it was actually hurting there though XD

I love the random bruises and black eyes, you get to tell the best stories about how you got them...There was these three really huge guys and they came out of no where....

I can do all the moves on HoP an am currently studying the encyclopoidia like a man possesed, I hit myself all the time, mostly in the pods. Its actuallly worse when you only just catch them

I figure its a whole negative reinforcement thing, learn that doing it wrong hurts and you learn faster.

I started spinning 1 week ago today, and i'm not TOO bad ,
but yeah, within the 1st hour of practice i hit myself in the crotch....
twice

iv only been doin poi about a yr but i did stop for a while cos i broke my wrist.....but i hit myself every other time but then sometimes i pick them up close my eyes and dont hit mysef once...i think really hittin urself is the only way to learn..... otherwise theres no incentive to get out the way....lol

i got my poi only last friday, and been quite obsessed... practiced a few hours daily, and hitting myself a lot, mostly my legs. ... but hey, making progress: today they 've mostly hit each other ;-)

Artemisia

do i hit myself while practising? oh yeah.

got my first poi yesterday, so far both my knees have lovely black bruises on them, and i have a bruise on the palm of my right hand (dont ask me how, i have no idea!) but it hurts!!! theres a pic of my poor hand in my gallery!

My boyfriend spent the afternoon in the garden watching me and laughing when i hit myself. very funny.

I'm not too bad ,but yeah I do hit myself.

I hit myself in the face for the first time yesterday evening when I was attemptinhg hip reels....now it really hurts! lol.

My fire set when Im practicing with Butterflies and other moves when my chains cross each other usualy seem to go for my crotch... which sucks....
or my left leg...

Yes, and mostly with the butterfly. That moves scares me more then did when I first bungee jumped. I bend my legs to do it, I refuse to do it standing up. As a male, the poi heads hit each other sometimes doing the butterfly, and when they hit they fly in together towards my body, and to my luck, towards the weakest part of my body, my crotch, to be more specific, well you get it. Anyways it hurts like hell, and just makes me so afraid to do the butterfly in fear it will happen again, so I always bend my legs and stick my butt out. I've been trying, but I don't know how to stop the poi from occasionally hitting each other with the butterfly.

well, after this weekend, I cannot wear a skirt to work for this week-well, the knee length one

I remember beating myself practically to a bloody pulp when I first started. The boys I must say fared a lot worse though. Both the gents I started with would rack themselves about twice a night.

These days I still smack myself once in a while but not nearly as badly. I'll get myself in the head once in a while or if I'm not paying attention when I'm practicing spinning while doing arabesque en pointe or panche. What happens is ballet techniqu forgets to make room for poi technique and I'll have a ball of kevlar, sometimes in flaming form smack me in the leg full force. Tasty.

i hit myself in the head about 5 times earlier and then decided i needed to sit down but it was fun totally worth it practice makes perfect and all that

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I'm working on the reverse 3BTW and I hit my head - continuously. It's quite amusing to watch. It's almost as if I believe I'll pound the move into my head. Thank the Gods for fluffy ball poi!! Minimal damage to the head.

My husband gets himself in the jewels often.

Yeah, Kevlar balls to the eye on the reverse 3 beat isn't a good thing.

back of the head with kevlar hurts alot but not as much as trying to do a btb butterfly and double whacking yourself in the ears =(