#904523 - 22/01/1001:14 AMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: Paddington Bear]
aston
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
Registered: 02/12/07
Loc: South Africa
Whoohoo!
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got one handed butterfly and the backwards weave tonight also made a pair of sock poi which are abit more forgiving and less likely to tangle. oh and the outwards butterfly
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#906305 - 08/02/1006:05 PMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: Paddington Bear]
brenonfire413
Fire Spinner Exarch
Registered: 22/12/09
Loc: Tulsa, OK, United States
Good job! Isn't the one handed butterfly so much fun?
I just discovered, and I don't know the name of this trick, a butterfly turn maybe? Anyways you do the butterfly in one direction, when the poi swing outwards it allows you to pivot 180 and switch to the reverse. This also seems to work one handed. Having lots of fun with it!
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#906417 - 10/02/1006:39 AMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: brenonfire413]
freeskierpj
stranger
Registered: 06/02/10
Loc: Hopkinton, MA
Finally got a 3 beat weave!!! Oh my god I've literally spent easily 15 hours just trying to do it and it always either was a 2 beat or got tangled but something just clicked this morning and I can't do it wrong (I can't do it well either but hey that's what practice is for )
#906421 - 10/02/1008:10 AMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: freeskierpj]
brenonfire413
Fire Spinner Exarch
Registered: 22/12/09
Loc: Tulsa, OK, United States
Fifteen hours? Thank god, I'm not the only person that spent forever on that trick! It's a really fun trick once you nail it and after that I find it to be kind of meditative because you can just keep going and rolling your arms back and forth! Now have fun with the reverse...
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#906434 - 10/02/1012:36 PMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: brenonfire413]
freeskierpj
stranger
Registered: 06/02/10
Loc: Hopkinton, MA
Yea literally it's been about two weeks since I started and every day I've spent about an hour if not a little more working on just 3 beats simply because I couldn't get them and it was frustrating me (I tend to have some perfectionist tendencies but now that that's done it's on to perfecting it along with doing some windmills/butterflies because I still can't even start to wrap my head around reverse weaves
#906443 - 10/02/1003:48 PMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: SpinnerofDetroit]
Seaspray
stranger by the day
Registered: 08/07/09
Loc: At the Back of the North Wind
Reverse 3-beat weave can be easy to learn. If you turn to face the other direction while weaving, the poi kinda naturally go into reverse weave
And yeah, it took me forever to work out 3-beat weave and more than a few ... unfortunate misses to the groin.. took me actually seeing someone do the trick in person to get it
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#906446 - 10/02/1004:54 PMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: Seaspray]
brenonfire413
Fire Spinner Exarch
Registered: 22/12/09
Loc: Tulsa, OK, United States
SoD, you mean the butterfly twist thingie? Cool I didn't know the name, thanks! Now I'm having that level of frustration on the btb 3 beat. I've been trying a little bit every time I spin and still haven't had much progress. So far I've gotten really good at smacking the back of my calves or right in the back of my neck, but I think that's a different trick. Speaking of I'll give that another shot here in a few...
Edited by brenonfire413 (10/02/1004:56 PM)
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#906465 - 11/02/1003:01 AMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: brenonfire413]
Sister Eleven
owner of the group property
Registered: 03/08/09
Loc: Seattle, WA
I got a lot of stuff down pretty fast, but the btb weave (and most other btb things) I'm still terrible at--and I started being able to do it like 3 months ago. It's really annoying, and I know skilled spinners who took almost a year to figure it out, so you wouldn't be alone.
Learned Reverse 2 beat weave by accident haha. Learning 5 beat forward weave and btb 3 beat weave right now. Also learned oth butterfly switching from front to back.
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#906469 - 11/02/1003:46 AMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: KittehRaver]
aston
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
Registered: 02/12/07
Loc: South Africa
I never actually learned 2beat weaves.
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#906474 - 11/02/1004:55 AMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: brenonfire413]
SpinnerofDetroit
All High Dude, Ruler of What You Want
Registered: 25/10/09
Loc: Trenton, MI, USA
Originally Posted By: brenonfire413
SoD, you mean the butterfly twist thingie? Cool I didn't know the name, thanks! Now I'm having that level of frustration on the btb 3 beat. I've been trying a little bit every time I spin and still haven't had much progress. So far I've gotten really good at smacking the back of my calves or right in the back of my neck, but I think that's a different trick. Speaking of I'll give that another shot here in a few...
It took me like a month to get btb 3 beat down. Plenty of bruises on my legs to go with it. Then waistwraps took me about another month after first practicing it to get that, and even then I couldn't continuously do it. But now btb is just as coordinated as in front of me
And after that, you get to get the frustration and ultimate satisfaction of learning under the legs, which I'm still working a little at a time on doing that all in reverse under my legs.
And the butterfly twisty thingy? Yes that's the Pacman Twist, I love that name I want to see it don with fire snakes, then it would actually look like Pacman
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#906476 - 11/02/1005:10 AMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: aston]
Sister Eleven
owner of the group property
Registered: 03/08/09
Loc: Seattle, WA
Originally Posted By: aston
I never actually learned 2beat weaves.
Nor did I, at first. I sorta went back and learned them later, though I can't say it's paid off for much. Though Nick Woolsey thinks highly of them for some reason, so I'll trust that they'll come in handy some day.
#906477 - 11/02/1005:32 AMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: SpinnerofDetroit]
brenonfire413
Fire Spinner Exarch
Registered: 22/12/09
Loc: Tulsa, OK, United States
Originally Posted By: SpinnerofDetroit
It took me like a month to get btb 3 beat down. Plenty of bruises on my legs to go with it. Then waistwraps took me about another month after first practicing it to get that, and even then I couldn't continuously do it. But now btb is just as coordinated as in front of me
And after that, you get to get the frustration and ultimate satisfaction of learning under the legs, which I'm still working a little at a time on doing that all in reverse under my legs.
And the butterfly twisty thingy? Yes that's the Pacman Twist, I love that name I want to see it don with fire snakes, then it would actually look like Pacman
Waistwraps, meltdowns, etc. are the ultimate goal. I'll give it some more practice tody.
I've been working on my spiral wrap a lot and that's coming out better!
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#906486 - 11/02/1008:23 AMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: SpinnerofDetroit]
aston
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
Registered: 02/12/07
Loc: South Africa
I can do them. Just never bothered learning them. Just found I could do them all one day when teaching someone a three beat.
Two beats are fun for flow, since there are few limits to where you can put them. Also, you can seperate them nicely with one on one side of you body and the other doing something arb.
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#906837 - 18/02/1008:29 AMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: SpinnerofDetroit]
brenonfire413
Fire Spinner Exarch
Registered: 22/12/09
Loc: Tulsa, OK, United States
Alright guys, today is the freaking day. I vow to get one direction of the btb 3beat weave going today! Haven't messed with it too much seriously aside from getting each hands motion down. But this is it, I draw my line in the sand!
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#906913 - 19/02/1004:50 PMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: SpinnerofDetroit]
brenonfire413
Fire Spinner Exarch
Registered: 22/12/09
Loc: Tulsa, OK, United States
Oh, BTW, after an ongoing duel that's lasted over twenty hours total I finally did conquer the btb 3 beat weave. It was an epic struggle, but I chopped off it's head and sent it back to it's crying wives and children. My ankles are hating me though, they're still sore! I still need to polish it quite a bit and I still suck at the forwards btb, so it's still not complete...
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#906954 - 20/02/1012:43 PMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: SpinnerofDetroit]
Teamo
Almost again
Registered: 22/12/09
Loc: Finland
It's been long since I last updated this, but just do recap what I've most recently learned over the past week.. Got more familiar with Zan's diamond and learned to go through it in all the modes, plus the one Drex showed in last week's blog where the timing changes.. And I got down wallplane meltdowns in all the modes, which is a great victory.
well i actually found out you can do a 2 beat butterfly weave yesterday
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#907908 - 10/03/1010:24 PMRe: The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread
[Re: Jameth]
aston
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
Registered: 02/12/07
Loc: South Africa
Wow.... There is one I have not heard in years.
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