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

i realise that i posted my last post on the wrong topic

SO to make up for it i managed to learn the 5 beat weave forwards last night
it's still a bit sloppy and its easier with my socks. but nonetheless i am feeling very good about it

It took me forever to get backward 5 beat, try doing the motions with your wrists while hanging upside down and study that for a bit, then remember to fling the poi over instead of flopping it like fowards. Also while I'm posting, I learned btb a weird way, practice the woolsey way, one hand at a time, and then when that is comfy and fresh, do a foward weave, focus on your planes, then turn 180 and leave the poi in the same place, and you will have reverse btb. I think reverse is a bit easier, but thats me. Move your body to avoid getting hit, as you get better that movement becomes smoother.

the windmill and the fountain over the weekend
plus now that i can do a form of fountain i also found out how to smoothly switch from forwards to reverse 3 beat

all in all quite pleased especially as i stopped for months due to bad weather and no indoor space to practice

Ha! Three beat weave has been accomplished!

Excellent I was well pleased when I finally got that working!! Now I'm trying to figure it out in reverse!

I figured out how to turn with a three beat weave, smoothing going from forwards weave to backwards and repeat. Now I am working on a 5 beat weave.

Turning and reverse moves open up so many possibilities. Seriously, no matter how much you will hate it, don't stall on learning stuff on your weak side. I still can't do airwraps and hyperloops from the left!

Mine are shaky. But yes, I would almost suggest learning with your weak side first....

the contact juggler i got my start from years a go said he learns new moves on his weak side easier, perfects them on his strong side and goes back and polishes is weak side after.

I brought my Poi with me when I went on a 10 day youth exchange to Germany...turned out one of my youth leaders does Poi too so we were both Poiing around outside our log cabins and some of the other young people started watching us- we ended up teaching most of the other 15 young people how to do a butterfly, 2 beat weave and corkscrew!

Also brought it with me on a residential I went on with my young arts group last weekend-turned out that there was a guy on it, Paul who also did Poi! Paul and I Poied for a bit on the beach, I got the 3 beat down to a t, (it had been bothering me for weeks!) Paul taught me how to do a corkscrew behind my head and then I ended up taking a Poi session on the beach, teaching some of the others how to do it!

I just learned the backwards 3-beat weave I was practicing it a bit and suddenly I just did it, I astonished myself But I'm proud too ^^

Nice work people....

Woo, ive been poi-ing for just short of a week, learned corkscrew, butterfly, 2 beat weave, buzzsaw, turns (forth and back) and now I just got the 3 beat weave after days of toiling! Just got to learn to stop hitting myself in my knee and hitting my boobs everytime I do a buzzsaw!

Are you shortening your poi any for buzzsaws?

For the knee, make sure your planes and crosspoints are consistent.

Yeah ive been trying different lengths, all of which Ive found are cringe worthy lol.

Ive been working on doing everything with one hand just to work on where they cross passed my legs

So... I threw a reverse three beat! I was doing forward with my poi friends, and thought...you know what? What happens if I... And I was thrilled to learn my hands just sort of figured it out!

Also.. I don't know what the move is called, I was watching one of my friends do a move where he took both of the poi and swung them up over and behind his head then back down again at the same time, and I ended up learning how to alternate them in circles over my head. Odd, yet entertaining!

Chasing the sun is the first, I think. Which is much like a same time windmill.

The other as best I can guess is a windmill... have you tried a corkscrew?

I haven't tried a corkscrew yet, but I shall attempt it tonight. I get to practice while I work overnights

This is the end of my third week spinning poi, and this week I've figured out threading the needle, the five beat weave, and the four beat corkscrew. (These last two are kind of spotty, but I just figured them out tonight.) Goals for the next week: reverse threading the needle, the four beat windmill, and behind the back three beat weave, and managing to do a bloody reverse butterfly for 30 consecutive seconds without colliding (I can't believe I'm still working on that one).

Wow, you have a crazy learning curve sister. It took me forever to learn to add more beats to stuff, but both butterflies foward and back i got down easily. Keep going!

I've been told I'm a quick study, though I chalk it up to the power of obsession. I've probably been practicing one to two hours a day every day since I started spinning, which seems like it might be a lot compared to many people. I doubt I can keep it up forever.

Though I am glad to say I met three of my four goals since my last post. Dumb behind the back weave, slowin' my mojo...

A lot of people start out that crazily. They do tend to slow down after a while though.

But keep practicing.

Morning/Afternoon/Evening (Delete according to timezone).

Just joined these boards after having read them regularly for the last few months. I was introduced to poi by a couple of friends in the park sometime around April this year. Spent about 5 hours that day stealing their poi, trying to do a 2 beat weave and putting them down cursing after having hit myself in the head a few times and swearing I'd never be able to do it. The stubborn part of me kept picking them up though until at one point later on something clicked. I had an interesting experience of thinking: I'm doing something, I don't know what I'm doing but it's working. That was a cool feeling

I've been spinning off and on since then and collected a few more moves. I can now do a few more competently; forwards and backwards 3 beat weave, forwards and backwards butterflies same time and split time, windmill and corkscrew.

I can also do a few things less competently and with slightly more damage to myself and the living room lightshade. I got an antispin flower for the first time last weekend but only with one arm. I was still well pleased with that . I need to work out how to do two hands at once next. I find that I progress best if I try to learn a few things at once, otherwise I get disheartened if the thing I'm trying to do just isn't working. If I work on a few things at once then if one isn't working I can play with something else for a while. I probably spend the most time just now trying to work out how to transition between moves, particularly how to put together weaves and windmills to get a fountain. I can get from a backwards 3 beat into the windmill but then I haven't worked out how to come down into the forward 3 beat yet.

Just realised this post is turning into a ramble so I'll stop before it gets any less coherent. Anyway it's prompted the urge to spin so I'm off to assault the living room lightshade again.

Rich

Nice going. Enjoy beating up that defenceless light-shade....

sounds good!
I have sock poi that I use inside...for damage limitation of the furnishings!

I just learned how to reverse my 3beat weave. It's fun.

Lol, I work overnights too. That's when I practice most.

I, too, work nights, where I constantly practice what one coworker calls my "ninja socks" with my free hand. I think not only does it help to have an environment that's supportive and where you can learn from other spinners, but it also helps to have another environment where no one gives a [redacted].

I picked up my first set of poi about 6 months ago and so far have mastered 2, 3, and 5 beat weaves (still can't quite do reverse 5 beat, keeps nailing myself in the head) 2 and 4 beat windmill and corkscrews (4 beat still a little spotty), btb reverse 3 beat, butterfly, thread the needle, split time butterfly and a variation called the pacman twist (that one is super fun), spiral wraps, anti-spin butterfly flowers, same direction flowers, forwards 1.5 beat weave, standard fountain, 4x4 fountain, buzzsaw and buzzsaw fountains, butterfly buzzsaw, forward hyperloops (can only go from right to left so far), and I can almost do an orbital.

Currently working on figuring out 4 beat thread the needle, split time thread the needle, stalls, plane changes, anti-spin same direction flowers, wall plane flowers, isolations, arm and leg wraps, and just generally trying to learn to flow and transition better so it actually looks good.

Got a bunch of videos of me spinning on youtube @ www.youtube.com/renfried if anyone wants to check it out and maybe shoot some pointers my way. Just now joining the forums, but all my gear has come from HOP. I love this place

That's right...

REVERSE BTB 3-BEAT WEAVE!!! IN YOUR FACE!! YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD STOP ME BY BRUISING BOTH MY SHOULDERS, BUT I DON'T STOP!! EAT IT, #$(*&$@&#&#!!

Sorry for the caps. I've just been working on this one for a while now. Now maybe I can let my shoulders heal...