Forums > Beginner Poi Moves > weird variation on TTN

Posted: 22 years ago
butterfly on one side of your body for a beat, then butterfly on the other side in the reverse direction for a beat and back again? Butterfly weave

you can do it with ttn instead of butterfly, makes it a bit harder if you're sadistic.

Can be nice to do a butterfly/ttn fountain, esp if you on the centre beat wrap and go into 5 beat weave fountain

Posted: 22 years ago
ahhh fountains...

not like I can actually do one. but anyways, thanks for suggestion the ttn weave, while I can only ttn in the forward direction I'll have to learn reverse so I can try that out, though visualizing it now is giving me a headache...

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Posted: 22 years ago
I know how stupid this must seem, but... what's a ttn?

Posted: 22 years ago
hey matey, ttn = thread the needle or tickle the navel.
navels are like armies only wetter.

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Posted: 22 years ago
there is no butterfly or TTN fountain.

a fountain is a big circle made up with 14 smaller circles doing cross follow.
think about it.

Posted: 22 years ago
it does work in bf though pk...
its just really hard and looks a bit funny.

have you tried *reverse* fountains (another glass headtwister )?

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Posted: 22 years ago
Hi,

There's a few TTN variations in this vid:) :

https://jez.i8.com/Jo-5bt-bfl-weave.wmv

wouldn't have repeated the link here except you might have missed it in the 5bt butterfly thread.

Jo.

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Posted: 22 years ago
howd you make it a fountain then?... talk to me techy, yeah you can do a fountain type thing with BF, but fountain is a move on its own.
this argument has been done over and over.
please give it another name other than fountain.

oh even the gandini club swinging video got a fountain wrong! if my memory serves me corectly.

Posted: 22 years ago
hey pk - good to see you back around - have ya got the net connection in now then?
but for now to the matter @ hand...

the gandini's spin a perfect fountain but they count it wrong.
someone had to point the numbers mistake out to me though - i can't count

i reckon with poi that 'fountain' is a family of moves rather than just the one move of 'a cross-follow span at 6 points on a full arm circle'.

i know there was a time around here when every move named ended up having 'fountain' in the title somewhere but i think this is a bit different.

with clubs 'fountain' is just one move. but poi aren't clubs and there's a few variations now with poi that don't transfer to clubs.
moves i consider in fountain family are any spun with the familiar 'small circles tracing out a large circle in the wall plane'.
we now have regular fountains, reverse fountains, isolated fountains, reverse isolated fountains (dark - possibly only spinnable while in the matrix), hyperloop fountains ( ask that jackelero bloke) and possibly now bf fountains.

i have to say, i can't spin a bf fountain (or 'a butterfly weave at six points on a full arm circle' if you prefer ) so i can't say what it looks like.
i'd imagine though that it wouldn't look out of place if you were spinning fountains and switched to bf but continued the 'big circle' thing.

i guess its all a bit arbitrary though - its just the way i happen to file things in me head

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Posted: 22 years ago
just wanted to argue the toss wiv ya haha

back next tuesday dude..finaly

Posted: 22 years ago
if anyone ever asks why our little lines under our member names are what they are, we can just point them to the last two posts here

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Posted: 22 years ago
What's different between reverse isolated fountain and isolated fountain?..I think nothing....
If fountain is regualr circle transition,how it would look like with BF.I think isn't BF(TTN) fountain just some hotch-potch with BF..
If you think that exist describe it exactly.

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Posted: 22 years ago
Isolated fountain? Is that where the poi stay still and you spin 14 times around them

Posted: 22 years ago
now your talking Mr morph

Posted: 22 years ago
nice one morph tried doing 'full isolations ' (spin poi but leave them spinning in the same place no matter which move you are doing) but it was far too hard.

skunk can do some of this type of stuff really well but i doubt he can spin a fountain like that!

richee - there is a difference between fountain and rev fountain (same goes for isolated, hyperlooped versions):

normal fountain - if poi spin clockwise, big arm circle goes clockwise.

reverse fountain - if poi spin clockwise, big arm circle goes anti-clockwise.

and if you understand that, then you can imagine a bf fountain as a combination of these two moves (just in the same way a bf weave is a combo of a fwd weave and a rev weave). not that i can spin one yet (although i did nail rev buzzsaw fountain on my birthday which leaves me one step away from rev iso fountains ).

i love these fountain discussions.

[ 17. May 2003, 06:31: Message edited by: coleman ]

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Posted: 22 years ago
Ok..I thought that..

ehm..another question:

I can do both isolated fountains but something interested me in.When I do lower or upper transition to the other side poi aren't isolated.It's the middle part like in BTN fountain.In one small moment poi divide..is it mistake?

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Posted: 22 years ago
richee - i have the same problem mate. for example doing clockwise isolations and going from left to right (over the top), right poi stays isolated and the left swings over the top half of a normal circle before dropping back into the isolation.

every single time i have managed to pull off this transfer keeping it locked into an isolation, it tangles.
in fact, barrring lucky bounces (which i could *never* make repeatable) that tangle happens 100% of the time i get the transfer 'right'.
makes me very sceptical as to whether it is possible to keep full isolation in this or any move which requires crossing hands...

if someone shows me its possible, i'll take it back but until then, close will just have to be good enough for us man

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Posted: 22 years ago
coleman - I think it goes without tangles(it isn't poor idea ). I caught both end of poi with opposite hand like in isolation and tried how it would be possible (lower part,upper transition is the same or similar(I hope ).

I found the important: I do infront of me the middle part of BTN fountain (something like TTN) but isolated and after that left<->right transition is "easy"...
Do u agree with it?

[ 08. May 2003, 23:44: Message edited by: Richee ]

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Posted: 22 years ago
i don't know man - i know for certain i can't do it!

my confusion comes from the fact that with normal spins, you make transitions by moving the centre of the spin. with an isolated spin, you make a transition by moving your hand which is at the radius of the spin.
this gives you a much bigger transition 'cross-section'.
by 'cross-section' i mean if you look from above or the front, the cross-section is the area used by the poi when passing from one plane to another.
minimum cross-section would be a poi spinning in plane with the centre static.

gonna get tricky to explain now...
look at the lines you get between poi heads and your hands when you make a transition (the diagonal of the cross-section if you like).
if you change planes by moving the centre of the spin (like with normal spinning), the chains at worst will make a diagonal line between where the poi head was spinning in the original plane and the centre of the new plane (where your hand has moved to).

now, looking from the front/above an isolated spin, as your hand starts to move in one direction, the poi head (on the other side of that circle) will move in the opposite direction.
this means you get a much larger cross-section with isolated spins.
a poi head will start in one plane and as the hand moves into the new plane, the poi will move slightly in the other direction before being forced into the new plane by the adjusted spin and the fact that the chain is a fixed length (try transitioning isolations with stretchy poi if you don't get why the fixed length makes a difference).

so, all this babble basically says the following:

when isolated, poi have a larger cross-section on transitions.
in an isolated buzzsaw, the chains are close together and the centres of the spin in line.
this means there is a larger crossing of the poi cross-section on transitions and hence a much increased chance of tangling.

hope that made some sense at least.

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Posted: 22 years ago
true,true... R. head know,but hands still dont understand..

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Posted: 22 years ago
somebody say something about me? i have to admit, as soon as you guys start throwing out btn ttn bf isolated fountain type terms and follow with when hand a crosses over leg b with body position c and then add numbers of beats my brain actually makes a clicking sound as it turns off. it's kinda like when my computer overheats...blue screen...

anyway, time to go up to the roof and reactivate myself with some of my namesake.

so to agree with coleman like i said not sure what you guys are all talking about but i actually do not do much isolation type stuff cause my chains are too long and the metal ring handles make shortening them quite painful and unwieldy, so i doubt i can do that move...yeah i know excuses excuses

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