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

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!! I just learned to do the alternate butterfly. Lol, I know it isn't something REALLY good but I've only been spinning for 3 days now so I think it's good of myself. I also can do the weave, but that was the first one I wanted to learn lol, it looks so awesome.

same direction ttn instead of revising.

revising?

My second year computer science degree exams start tomorrow, with 5 in 8 days... so God only knows why I was spinning poi instead :P

atomic weave

BTB 360 hozirontal hyperloop

Try front->back negative buzzsaw to get into it.

lightning,

:R

Lots of new stuff lately... butterfly inversions (Thanks ICoN), same time BTB weaves, same time BTB waist wraps, landed a few round the world hyperloops and tons of new rope dart tricks.

Btb bf ww, which is fun, and 2:1 hybrid( one long arm, one isolating)

Wow... Since I last posted on here I've learnt windmill, giant windmill, corkscrew, giant weave, reverse weave, btb butterfly, outwards butterfly, butterfly turn, the fountain, shoulder reels, hip reels, opposite reels inwards and outwards, the wiggle and extended reels. YEAH!!! lol

wohoooo - just got the airwrap - i´m soooo proud of myself!!!!

and a hyperloop!!!

stalled/buzzsaw fountain hybrid thingy: tricky to co-ordinate but quite pretty!

woo, i'd been struggling with the reverse TTN loads today, still can't really do it.

I just tried the butterfly weave after reading a thread on it and got it working in all of about 2 minutes

I did practice butterfly turns lots recently or I doubt it would have been so fast.

Hey, kool, I guessed that you could turn from inward wiggle to outward wiggle and vice versa... and I was right, and I learnt it in about 5 minutes

Just got the 4beat weave, and a reverse 3beat weave. Still cant get my head around whats happening in hyperloops/how to keep them going.

because it takes me so long to learn backwards versions of moves... I was amazed when I got btb reverse weave HAZAAAA!!!

Got reverse TTN sorted properly the day after I worked out the butterfly weave, lol. got it at least partly isolated now too.

I've *finally* been able to do a 180 turn from BTB rev weave to BTB forward weave. I just can't turn back again yet arg. BTB forward wave is such a pain, it's so much more unnatural feeling than anything else I've done for some reason.. BTB weave turns are also the most exhausting (and painful!*) thing to practice i've found so far

(*clocked myself square on the nose for the first time, lol)

Yakumo, just you wait.

I'm finally starting to get the reverse five-beat weave. I'll be able to get it for two minutes, then it'll fall apart on me. But the getting it for the two minutes is a great improvement.

My god.... I learnt ttn... I thought it was something so complicated but its not. I could've learnt it ages ago! stupid move. Now I need to learn Guy's Gyroscope..... eek!

lot's of thread the needle tricks. split time TTN (weeks ago) reverse split time TTN (more recently) and I've been learning to throw isolations into them. so ummm.... isolated split time thread the needle weave?

floor/ceiling plane 5 beat weave

what's that look like

a strange butterfly tangle : http://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11690

I've finally nailed the weave, thanks to this DVD I just bought - Poi Spinning Basics with Pele's Element.

I feel like a proper spinner now!

hey, not many posts by me but I'm practicing hard.

I've got the butterfly and alternate b.fly and reverse b.fly down. a hesitant mexican wave is being worked on, and now I'm working on the the turns and follow the sun. not easy. but getting there.

Poi are such fun!

Behind the back weave. Oh yeah.

inside ~> outside airwraps, reverse bfly airwraps (apparently correctly now)