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Location: Prague, Czech. Republic
BTB Fishtailes.
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POI THEO(R)IST
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Location: Eliot Maine, USA
i still dont kno what a fishtail is nor how to do it
behind even the brightest light there still thrves a darkness...
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ummm, richee, you wanna explain those pls..
iim sure there are quite a few ppl who would like to know how it works..
as am i
[psylocibin fingerbobe].
479 posts
Location: London, United Kingdom
I just learnt one today... but I don't know wht the name of it is, so I'll attempt to describe and someone might be able to enlighten me.
Pass it behind back and then spin up over head (behind back) then as it comes back down you lift your leg and pass it round the front and under the leg and you're back to near where you started (spinning behind the back). It can be repeated over and over.
phew... I really should learn the proper names for these tricks!
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland
hi mark
that sounds like a pin wheel your doing behind your back. they are sweet.
here's a link to the staff naming moves thread that might help you out a bit
[Old link]
have you tried turning around while the staff is behind you? it works when your spinning it behind your head and if you do it while spinning it behind your back... loads of fun
if you wanna try something really hard, when the staff is behind you and your spinning accross try puttin the center of the staff on the back of your neck between your shoulder blades and leaving go... you can take it back off with your other hand after it rolls accross...
its contact staff. im obsessed with it at the moment
have fun...
Love is the law.
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Location: ||...lost...||
Written by: ado-p
its contact staff. im obsessed with it at the moment
haha, me too ado-p (can i just call you ado in the future, its easier to type
) although im having some trouble with contact on the neck and shoulders.. ill give it a shot tho. Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland
i have trouble with all contact....
its damn fun trying though.
and yes, your more than welcome to call me ado
Love is the law.
enthusiast
227 posts
Location: dublin Ireland
Contact is addictive!! I can not leave my staff down.
fun is the second word that comes to mind the first being tenderising (as in meat).
Grow old but never grow up
old hand
834 posts
Location: Wellington somerset, UK
lol! contact rocks, you wanna try someting really hard...try a double fishtail in the same plane as you'd do a buzzsaw! ( i dont get it my self yet, but yet it just happened, oh that or try the matrix :P
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Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
enthusiast
227 posts
Location: dublin Ireland
I love the matrix. I have been trying to do it for about 2 weeks but cant control it so I can bring it up for a throat wrap. getting there tho.
How does the buzz saw work.havent figured out the handwork on that?
Grow old but never grow up
old hand
834 posts
Location: Wellington somerset, UK
i only know the poi style one (with poi) but i cant do that (dont play poi :P ) ummm do one oward fig 8 and one back fig 8 (diffrent hands) but dont moe your arms, just do it with your wrists, kinda hard with long staffs tho
Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars
Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
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Location: Under your stairs
I just got my first Double Staff moves! Yay! I'm just so fricking extatic. I've not got the hang of it until now.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
Dual fishtails without looking!
oh and i pulled off the doubles matrix - the not so easy one
but i guess i shouldnt really say that ive learnt it as ive only nailed it once,
but lets not dwell on that!
DUAL FISHTAILS Contact staff rocks
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Groovy ga watashi no namae desu!
1,530 posts
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
strugz......go fnck a chicken
and get it so youcan do it al the time before anyone else does and i'll give you a bony-o, the doubles matrix of course, not the chicken thing lol
my dual fishtails have took a turn for the worst recently, no idea why i just cant do them that well anymore....need more good weather
however my continuous never ending halo turns are comming on nicely
and i'm getting some nice half matrix like stuff out of them aswell
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
Chicken Fnkin??
Is this a west country thing
Ill have 15 beats down for falmouth i rekon
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old hand
834 posts
Location: Wellington somerset, UK
Strugz that sounsd cool as **** they still dont work for me
woo its sunny out (ish) i can play more
Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars
Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
raaaaaah go strugz
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
**posted twice because im stupid**
But while im here again it only just occured to me what the first post says......... Behind The Back fishtails......... NICE and, HOW THE?? at the same time!
EDITED_BY: strugz (1110330994)
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
hehehe cheers
but tonight
i could only just do 5 i dont understand, how can you have something nice and then the following day not be able to do it as well, damn body......... need to train it more........
Ill put it down to working 16hrs today and try again tomorrow
As annoying as it can be........ contact still rocks
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
hehe overtraining makes it harder, i find when i practise a move for a lot intensely then leave it for a few weeks when i come back to it its much better than when i was practising it
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
Point taken from the dual fishtail master, i leave them well alone and we shall see, thanks
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
dude im only just starting to learn normal fishtails properly, at the moment my whole body is disjointed once it all flows as one then ill start on the road to mastery 
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Groovy ga watashi no namae desu!
1,530 posts
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
ben, what are you talking about, just starting to learn normal fishtails properly......you and your weirdness
hrmmm, dual fishtails........i now officially hate these evil evil evil things, strugz i reckon you'll have them better than 15 in a row, i hope you can do them forever by falmouth, i find when get something like fishtails nicely that after a few days i can do them forever, just a matter of ignoring the possibility of messing them up
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just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
nate imho fishtails arnt just an arm movement, you can force the stick or you can dance with it
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Living it up
363 posts
Location: Brisbane/Berlin, Australia
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
Groovy ga watashi no namae desu!
1,530 posts
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
you'll have to film yourself doing this then put it on hop, so i can see what you mean exactly
video comming soon.....i pwomise
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
Ok i had a gig the weekend, turned into a very sketchy night / day out but fun was had by all,
When i got home the sun was beaming and i decided to spend a few hours in the garden with my stix still on a buzz from the night before,
Man i have never learnt so many new things in a short space of time, most of them contisted of:
Basic staff contact with turns, ie. halo rolls, snes but with the other staff going the opposite direction (non contact) i was playing for hours with these and realised how many differant entry and exit point there are, even when you chuck in throws while the other is contacting!
I would write lengthly descriptions but my brain hurts as ive just got up and am having to face work.............
For any one that wants to see, ill show you at falmouth, any one not going will have to "wait" for a vid
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
so xmas then hey
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
Just for that comment im going out on a whim and say youl have strugz n staffs 2 by may
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
ill believe it when i see it, are u going to do a col entry to? Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
For the first time ever in the staff forum....I GOT MOOVS!
Thank you uberschtaff for fishtails (Fishtails Ben!!ME!!!FISHTAILS!!!) double contact neck rolls to waist wraps, staff on staff cross contact over the head thingy including opposite direction, RHD style throws and I can even isolate double staffs now!
*happy dance*
*wiggle*
*kisses*
Let's relight this forum 
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