twist, tangles and understanding hyperloops

last weekend I went down to visit matt which finally inspired me to sit down and figure out hyperloops (something i've been meaning to do for a good few years). The story starts with a maths lecher back in my first year about twist and tangles this was well b4 i came across any hyperloops so promptly forgot it all and it's take me till now to go back and refigure it out.

I should probably say that even though it's based on maths I’ve tried to explain it so that it’s not to mathematical (probably just be my english skills which confuse you more).

the fundamentals are that there’s two type of knot a twist and a tangle. All poiest prefer twists cos if your poi are twisted up (with no tangles) then all you need to do is pull the handles apart and the poi spin round and untwist themselves. tangles on the other hand are more annoying to tangle or untangle your poi you need to jump the head of the poi over the knot (which quite often goes wrong and you end up make a even bigger knot).

right any questions? no, i'll carry on then

rule 1 you can only start a knot with a twist

rule 2 you can't untwist a tangle or untangle a twist.

rule 3 a untwist will only cancel out a twist if there is no tangles between them and a untangle will only cancel out a tangle if there is no twists between them.

a good example of this is

twist, tangle, untangle, untwist will come out.

but

twist, tangle, untwist, untangle won't come out.

right that’s all the maths out the way now it only needs to be applied to hyperloops

airwraps:

simplest to explain they consist of 2 twists followed by 2 untwists

buzzsaw hyperloops:

for simplicity say we start on the right side of the body. All the beat where the poi are on the right side (b4 they comes into the central buzzsaw) are twists, the central buzzsaw beat then go tangle, untangle, tangle, untangle... (this is why you must have an even number of central beats) then when you take them out on the left side all the beats are untwists.

the most basic buzzsaw hyperloop is twist, tangle, untangle, untwist.

also possible is doing extra central beats- twist, tangle, untangle, tangle, untangle, untwist

doing extra outside beats- twist, twist, tangle, untangle, untwist, untwist

or my latest favoritest move 1 right side, 1 central, 2 left side, 2 right side, 1 central, 1 left side - twist, tangle, untwist, untwist, twist, twist, untangle, untwist.

turning with buzzsaw hyperloops:

when doing the central beats of a buzzsaw hyperloops you can turn 180 so you doing a backwards buzzsaw hyperloop this turns the tangling poi into the untangling poi and now the left side adds twist and right side takes them off. if you want to come out facing this direction you must do this turn after an even number of central beats otherwise you get something like this - twist, tangle, untangle, tangle, (turn) tangle, untangle... and the tangle b4 the turn won't come out.

the only people i've seen doing this are matt, psi, and oli of which matt and psi add an extra right side beat b4/as they turn so it looks like- twist, tangle, untangle, twist (turn) untangle, tangle, untwist, untwist. where as oli I think does the more purest- twist, tangle, untangle, (turn) untangle, tangle, untwist

right that all i can be bother to write up now i'll sort out all the butterfly crap tomorrow and sometime in the future i'll right all the up properly with pretty pictures and am afriad alot more maths wink

any questions welcome

Maybe I should change this too something abit nicer, humm no I still think your all C censored

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