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

I've found reverse five beats really want to hit you in the face, and I still get beaned about 20% of the time. It never looks completely graceful, but you need to sort of push over the weave and dodge it at the same time. Virtually every other weave will let you stand kind of still, but the reverse five beat really needs you to move around it.

EDIT: Oh, and I noticed shortly after writing this that when doing my reverse 5-beat, I tend to emphasize the twist too much and it speeds up one of my poi (the one that goes on to hit me in the head). I started focusing on keeping the motion more continuous and flowing, and it's improved my weave a lot.

Good work.

Feels good, yeah?

haha, i had reverse 3 beat btb weave down, i was proud and i was letting my eye heal, i knocked my self good and blacked my eye with it. but had it down and started working on 3bt btb again and i seem to have to not necessarily relearn it but get my groove back, i can do 3bt about 2-5 times in a row and then my arms give out on me or get confused or something, and im still working on trying to figure out how to 3bt forward, but dont leave it out to long or you may be in same position i am.

Yea i just weighed my poi down with golf balls inside of my tennis balls. Used the great stuff to keep the golf balls form moving inside my tennis balls. I picked isolation up right away. Im so happy

Hmmm.... I should go through this thread at some point and see what shiny things are buried in the dim past.

Well done on the new stuff by the way.

same direction crossers
FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!

Just started this weekend. So far I've learned a few basic things, forward and backward spinning, split time, high turn, low turn, tuck turn, 2 and 3 beat weaves, along with cursing and knotting lol. Next up I think is going to be windmill and buzzsaw.

Well I lost power last night and couldn't post, but yesterday I managed to get a 5beat weave. Still a little sloppy, well maybe more than a little :P, but it's getting better.

Also learned to turn my body around mid weave and go from a forward to a reverse, and got a few turns down with the poi spinning in opposite directions.

Was raining last night and my ceilings are a little low so I didn't get to practice a windmill as planned.

Woot! Crossers are hella fun.

oh i love crossers .
I am working on uta crossers now so i can transition from crossers - uta crosser back to weaves and reels and what nots
and working on my damn btb weaves trying to clean them up and get them exact/ trying to still get forward btb weave =/

Crossers took me forever to nail. Then I realised that I was doing them anyway via a something completely different. Now they are fine.

Been a bit since I posted in here, but since last time things have been a little too stressful around the house for me to get much time to spin. Have picked up a few new things though, got the windmill down fairly well, which I actually kinda learned on accident. Every time I try a corkscrew it wants to slowly drift up into a windmill

Now working on air wraps and butterfly.

I just got my furry poi in the mail today. Working on forward/backward spins without them crossing toward each other, naturally. I'm really only posting because I creamed myself in the face and sent my glasses flying (they're fine but my nose hurts now). Felt the need to share. :\

Well today was a good day. Butterfly, reverse butterfly, split time butterfly, 4 beat corkscrew and windmill, fountain.
Almost got the hyperloops down, and an overhead spiral but I'm still just a little off plane spinning overhead so they're hard to catch.

Not really an impressive list of things I know, but what made all the difference today was for some reason I just kinda hit a point where things just flowed together really well.

I just learned reels again. And I learned windmill extensions.

Windmill extensions. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. They feel so pretty!

How are you just learning those? Lol, and they do feel pretty and they look awesome with fire I learned those when I learned windmills because I remember my exchange student Lukas doing those. As for what I just learned, I finally got my reverse 7bt weave down.
If you want to know something else pretty, do one beat of each of these in order and repeat: Butterfly, behind the head butterfly, butterfly (extend on the bottom for transition), angel wings (1bt remember that!), and repeat. It looks amazing with fire

They're great. They're also my favorite way to go into wallplane flowers: half way through it you reverse direction and go into antispin. Also with both butterfly and windmill extensions, pausing part way through to spin an isolation with both hands also got a pretty good reaction when I did it.

Insert rainbow + star and "the more you know" music.

DOOOOOD! I used to do those all the time!!!! Take pictures of that!!!!!!....They turn out looking so cool! The pattern it make on camera looks like a some kinda spacecraft made of light that around you! You just gotta see it. And also instead of doing angel wings with this, you can just do a BTB butterfly, and it also looks uber cool.

Now you got me curious, I want to take a pic of it. About how long should the lens be exposed because that's a lot to capture. Nvm, I just realized, it only feels like forever XD I am currently working on getting my btb butterfly looking solid, I could do btb thread the needle almost immediately, but the catch is! I can't get past more than a few beats, I've gotten up to about 5 or 6. And then I want bth thread the needle, this is just because just learning teaches you to greatly improve your planes making it look tighter and giving it that nice look of it bouncing up and down.

Fo Show. Btw it capture more of the move with LEDs then it does with fire.

Gone back to some basics I neglected, finally got split time btb butterfly. Just sort of ignored it, still not sure why I decided to learn it, but what they hey....

I just learned the wall plane in spin butterfly flower and the angel wings as well! *proud of self*

WOOT ME!

5 beat forward weave is now mine!!!

Yussss! Butterfly crosser, you belong to ME now! MWAHAHAHA!

hi guys, I'm new to this. sounds like you guys are loving learning some new tricks. Me too. I've just been checking out some of the lesson videos on this site and didn't realise quite how much there is to learn!
Actually I was wondering if anyone knows where in London the workshop is. I know it used to be at Spitalfield market on a Tuesday night but I heard it has moved to The Rag Factory. Does anyone know if this still happens as I'm thinking of going next week.

Thanks, Dan

@ Dannyspin - you might have more luck with either the Events and Gatherings section or the Meetings section, both in the International Section near the bottom of the page (I'm in Newcastle NSW, no idea wrt London meets)

ONE HANDED BUTTERFLY FTW!!! =D

ok, got my first poi for christmass. got the forwards weave and the forwards butterfly nailed now. still working on the backwards weave and reverse butterfly .

1 and 2 handed tuck turn are now nailed
just need some polishing
oh and the giant butterfly