The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread

Ah cool, thanks

that avatar is *waaaaaaay* cooler spiralx (but you knew i thought that).
someone else round here has the cat now (immortal angel i think) and hels bells had it for a good while way back when hop first got avatars.

i want x's current one on a t-shirt

Written by: tenticle

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Suicide weave? you kind of let go of the string as one poi is going up under the other arm and then catch it again above it, it's like a micro throw, and you can keep doing it as each time you do it it resets your hands to where they were before you started.

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badass
old skool infinite weave link.

that wallplane madness sounds really cool tenticle.
any chance of full description in poi moves (or a video )?


cole. x

seriously old skool link... i even remember some of those people. And i'll attempt a description of the wall plane thing when i can find a way to draw a picture of it that isn't just a mess. Basicly though, if you imagine an infinity sign in front of you, the poi do two circles on the crossed side of the infinity and one on the same side. You could do it if at the point the poi is traveling down and the string is parallel to the ground, the poi string could instantly swap and be pointing in the opposite direction, connected to your hand at the centre of the other part of the infinity. obviously you cant do that, so you let the poi travel so that at the crossover point on the infinity sign both your hand and the poi head are at the crossover, and the poi is pointing straight ahead, then move your hand to the other centre. it's quite hard not to stall one poi at first, but force the stall to be a circle in corkscrew plane and then it works... Exagerate different parts and you get some nicely twisted variations, like the two circles on the crossed side are vertical, the one circle on the same side is horizontal. like this -o.
just open up a weave and spin slow and a bit iso, quarter time helps, you'll soon get it.

HTH,

--ben

Cole - indeed, I'd love a t-shirt with that guy as well! Have you seen the official government document about why they chose it?

http://www.dti.gov.uk/homesafetynetwork/pdf/matches2.pdf

Interesting reading

Tenticle - there's a whole world of stuff here I've been thinking about for a while involving two centres of rotation. It's like the next step on from atoms if you think about the angle between the planes...

| | Normal
/\ Atoms
-- Flat

btb waistwrap

& another isolated weavy thingy

different to the isolated weavy thingy i've already been doing though...

isolated buzzsaw weave perhaps...?

under the leggy isolated weavy thing..hehe not too sure what it is..and another mysterious isolated waeve five beat thingy...hmmm...

4 beat TTN starting btb over the shoulder (?). It is regular 4 beat TTN but you start your TTN from over the shoulder. So right poi spins over left should BTB and from there going forward makes the rest of the 4 beat TTN. Left retreats back and makes a spin over the right shoulder BTB going forward does the rest of the 4 beat TTN .

cheers,

P.S:It is a very simple idea but haven't seen any movies with this so far .

silly hyperloop combo.

split-time ttn, huggie-things, weird buzz-saws, AND AND AND thankyou bluecat

Inside turns, inside buzzsaw waist wraps.

as of last week:
butterfly outside tangle, butterfly outside tangling 4-beat turn;

as of last night:
butterfly inside hyperloops, split time butterfly outside tangle,
buzzsaw handcuffs!!, 'inside butterfly' 'double wrist wraps' (buzzsaw handcuffs, but bfly!!);
( ^^ i'm going to try to look up threads on this schtuff, i think you guys are holding out on me)

-- dut

NINE BEAT WEAVE

im very pleased

How do you get 9 beats without turning, can't figure it out for the life of me.

ok--now i really do have the btb weave! really! i do! i like going from that into a reverse split-time flower.

also have managed a ceiling-plane ttn, which is really fun and quite possibly my new favorite move (of the moment ). aside from all variations of flowers

Hi spherculist,
I do a 7 beat weave then add a wrap round my wrists on each side,
I've now almost perfected an 11 beat weave with the same method only 2 wraps.

Are you around in Brighton over Easter?
Fancy meeting up for a session on the beach?

Pikey phil- you don't need those wraps in there for a nine...

butterfly hyperloops. finally.
figure 8 thing in floor plane, and a kind of cross between this and the weave one, and a five beat version.
various variations on microthrow weaves where you throw around other body parts than the wrist (such as the leg), and some where you pretty much only hold the poi string for half of any circle, and you are always throwing one or the other but not both or neither, but the poi follow the same path as they would for whatever move it is you want to do without holding on.
propellor to throw to opposite propellor on the other wrist and pass the other poi to the other hand and do the figure 8 change direction transition at the same time. (once. and it'll never work again, i betcha)
quarter time iso atom weave type thing.
quarter time iso 3bt weave with the middle of the strings always touching just enough to make them not straight. and some other quarter time iso stuff. quarter time seems easier than split time some how...

--ben

wowzer!

hyperloops, microthrow weaves, 9 and 11 beats... you have conquered physics, people.
all the moves you guys have recently figured out are pretty incredible! the technical stuff is brilliant to watch, though tough to figure out exactly what's going on with each poi.

I'm bathing in my own sense of achievement at the moment as well - today has seen me crack isolations, figure out how to add them comfortably into a five-beat fountain, and sort out some flowers as well. big day huh? remember back when you learnt those moves?

not so bad for someone who only picked the daft spinny things up three and a half weeks ago...

love and newbie admiration to all of you,

Ben