What are you working on now?

I'm still working on the two beat weave. I'm trying to make my left arm cooperate and it's being stubborn haha

I'm working on weaves,Isolations,Hybrids, and my spirals. and maybe a little plane variations.
also trying not to hit my self in the face haha

I'm trying to tidy up my planes, mess with some throws and catches and also nail flowers but it's cold outside and I don't have space to practice above my head indoors. Roll on summer!

Wow. Just listening to you guys makes me feel liks such a n00bie still.

Working on doing flowers with both arms at once, transitioning between what I do know, watermill, doing butterfly for a whole minute, perfect airwraps, and the 5 beat weave (which my friend STIll insists is the 7 beat weave. =\)

All with just a pair of glowsticks on short strings.

if u can do 5bt you are doing better then i am. I havent mastered that move in like 6 years just somthing a bout it i cant quite get.

At the moment i am working on isolations and some cool flower variations. Also alot of whipcatchs and over the shoulder throws.

Apparently I can do 5 beat weaves on Handles (glowstringing where glowsticks are on both ends, like really short meteor poi). That's because they can't hit my body from being too short. =D

the most recent thing i have learned was the 3 beet btb. so much fun =) i am also working on isolations as well. i can do them well with only one hand going... but with both it is still a chalange lol.

I am now proficient withn right hand stalls. :]

im working on underhand 5 beat weaves. i can do it going towards my left shoulder but cant get it towards the right shoulder for the life of me! this has been going on for more than a week now through some pretty serious practice sessions. anyone with pointers please help ive tried slowing it down speeding it up using different colored socks nothing is helping.

Hmmm by underhand you mean reverse?

And by going toward your left shoulder, its all on your left side?

Try turning around in the forwards 5 beat. (Turn to the right to get it to come up on the correct side)

If this doesnt help at all, get a video up of your attempt and I'll try work out whats going wrong...

Make sure each hand is doing its job properly, often its the left hand not pushing the left poi back across your body well enough.(Thats assuming I'm understanding your "Toward the right shoulder" remark properly...)

thank you for your help! ok so hear goes- everything you say, correct. now spinning out of the forwards 5-beat is how i learned to get it towardds my left shoulder i dont know why it is not working towards the right. i am watching the poi and one of two things happens- left poi wraps hopelessly around left arm and i get hit or left poi tangles with the right and slows it down from making the arc to my right shoulder. the poi lose split time. this is frustrating... i would send you a video but i dont have a cam. is there possibly a strecth or some sort of exercise you would reccoment for this to stop happening?

I was right about it being the left not coming across, its got to get on the LEFT side of your body try it being aware of that, try it with just the left poi making sure you yank it right across to the left, it'll get more natural with practice.

If that fails try this :


Cross your arms up as though you're in the 5 beat weave thing and do figure 8s in even time, then in split time. So thats left hand on the bottom, twisted under the right to be on the left and right poi to the right.

That should be your familiar side.

Then try doing that hands the other way.

OMG I finnaly got it!!! Thank you so much you dont know. All moves feel great to learn, but the fact that i could only do half the weave for so long was really getting to me, this has opened up so much in terms of dance. Everything felt extremely one-sided. My wrists are sore and red, my shoulder feels like its gonna come out the socket, but now that i got it i dont see where the trouble was before. Thank you again! Im off to try some new combos!

Um, currently under the legs stuff, waistwrap stuff, plane control behind head, back and whilst turning 360 in relation to plane of poi... Oh and how to move lots/ well whilst spinning without tangling poi around the clothesline or prayer flags in my backyard.

I have to admit, through several years of spinning I haven't made any attempt to learn the reverse 5bt weave. I guess I don't really see the point . 5, 7 etc bt weaves just seem to lock you up more, thereby restricting movement surely? Or am i wrong? i guess maybe it depends on your spinning style... and stuff?

currently btb reverse 3 beat and highreels/ fountains.

anyone else find starting to learn btb stuff is a crazy workout?

Well, I know that waistwraps are painful....

Parhelion: They are nice at times to give a dramatic slow-down as you cross. Not really vital though. I also throw them in from time to time if I start doing something with a 3bt weave and it starts going wrong....

I try to hit my belt when I do waistwraps. x:

And I can't seem to do the buzzsaw fountain.

the past few days ive been playing with some of the ideas in cyrilles new video, entitled 'medley'.. theres a link in the video section, i highly reccomend it

ooh, thats a good point, now you mention it I think I've unintentionally done that with a forward 5bt a couple of times. Also something to think about on the dramatic slowing down point, so cheers for that Aston

I guess maybe my objection is that generally, 5 beat weaves-amongst other 'beat intensive' moves- can require more kind of 'planning' to transition into than many other moves. I'm not very diligent at planning several moves ahead, I kinda like moving freely, and not thinking whilst doing so. Guess though should just stop being lazy and overprotectional of my wrists and learn it.

V_Regal: If buzzsaw fountains are the same as buzzsaw flowers (I'm pretty sure they are??) then I found that having pretty good planes, and keeping good, consistent rhythm (e.g. split time) the whole way through are really important in getting them to work.
practicing one hand at a time whilst standing in front of a wall (facing it) is really helpful- lets you know when poi planes are even slightly dodgy cause they'll thwack into the wall (or your head ), and counting/ feeling the beats- as nick woolsey would put it. Ooh, and watch his video tute on them if you haven't already- tis good.

I am working on getting 5b and making my flowers pretty. I finally got TTN and am working on perfecting it. Still doing isolations. Mostly I'm playing around with making my transitions smooth between moves. Doing 180 spins from 3b and reverse 3b. To butterfly, TTN, flowers, reels, buzzsaw. I'm just messing around and working out my style so I can do all these basic moves looking really sexy.

I got my glow poi!! I love them!

Cateyes and a few nice antispin flower releases that look rather cool imho. Not really been spinning until recently so also relearning some of the stuff I've forgotten (plus 1s and wibbles anyone)

I'm working on trying to get motivated in a place full of spinners, who are all miles ahead of me..

And trying to work on moving better..

I am trying to learn a move that my friend calls the "Spanish Dancer". Have you guys heard of that? Cause I've done some searches and nothing comes up so I wonder if she/we just call it something else?

Never heard of it. I can think of a few movements I might name that simply because of the way in which you can move your arms, mostly flower combos. If you tell us what the poi are doing we might be able to work out what it is and maybe give a few tips on learning it or just a name you can search on youtube.

Thanks for the response MotherNaturesSon. It kind of involves flipping your poi back and forth behind you, then to the front. I know it's not a great description but I think she calls it that because it resembles a flamenco-type dancer swishing her skirt back and forth. I'll try and find a pic I can post later. Anyway, I have a lot to learn so thanks for the suggestions!

Just point and laugh when they get things wrong... thats what I always do.

I dunno, sounds like hip reel variations of some kind.

Hey im new and im trying to get BTB two beat weave but i just hit myself in the head does anyone have any suggestions on how to stop this?

Make sure the poi are straight when spinning at your sides. If tilted, when you move them to the other side of your body they will hit you.

As for what I am working on:
Choreographing a routine for a performance in May. This will be interesting....

I'll do some investigating on that. Thank You