Do YOU hit yourself alot while practicing??

 Written by :Masked52


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.

lol! This made me chuckle Masked52! Especially when you mentioned that you bend ya legs and stick ya butt out! I hit meself in the rocks with both poi at once the other day too, and I can vouch for the pain!

I was having the same problem with the butterfly today when I was starting to learn the Alternate Butterfly.. the poi kept hitting each other even though I had no problem before.. I figured out how to stop that though... I found that if I rotate my hands to follow the downbeat of the poi more, so I'm putting more effort to swing them from my wrists, they don't seem to hit each other any more.. I dunno if this will work for you but seems to work for me

I've found that I hit myself loads, pretty much constantly, when I'm first learning a new move, but then it starts to iron itself out once I get used to how the poi are moving in the space around my body. Yeah, like others I repeatedly hit myself on the head with the 3 beat weave when I was startin off... no problems with it now though