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Location: London, United Kingdom
Ever spent MONTHS perfecting some difficult nitty-gritty technical move only to find that nobody even noticed it and instead everyone loves it when you just throw a staff in the air and catch it again???
So for any of your toys:
What are your alltime favourite cheap tricks?
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Location: danbury, ct, USA
every time I'm spinning for a crowd and pulling off flowers and hyperloops and what I find to be more difficult moves, all anyone calls out for is the buzzsaw (or "that thing where it goes real close to your face"). It's one of the easiest moves for me to do, and I can yawn while people think I'm cheating death!
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Location: neather here nor there, United Kingdom
Buzz saw laying / sitting on the floor running the circle up and down your body !!
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403 posts
Location: the state of flux, Ireland
Spread yer legs.
poi in opposite directions, split time groin wraps while screaming.
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Location: Palmerston North, New Zealand
It's the scream that makes it a cheap trick
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8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
definately cheapest and best has to be a staff burnoff crowds go nuts
followed closely by throws and most popular are drops (as long as you have a nice drop recovery (cartwheel or leg flick up)
juggling cheap trick has to be the machine with balls or mikes mess with clubs
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
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Location: Behind you. With Jam
I made up a staff move I call 'The Slinky'
It's almost more like a devil stick move than anything
Hold the staff horizontally in front of you on the backs of your hands above head level, nudge the staff up with one hand so it spins over the the other and catch it in the same starting position but at waist level then repeat with it ending up at knee level...
The effect should look like a slinky going down the stairs
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Location: London
video please beautiful
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Location: Behind you. With Jam
Soon gorgeous, soon...
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687 posts
Location: Eastbourne, UK
For me?
Definitely a real simple under-the-shoulder wrap to change the direction of the spin.
Its so silly, but people love it.
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985 posts
Location: Gloucester England
lol Gunna have to say that a simple tick tock on devilsticks seems to amaze everyone because they think the sticks are magnetic. on poi the one that is making people go owww!!! at the mo in gloucester is a Foward hyperloop.... but thats not really cheap so probebly a 3 bt
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enthusiast
363 posts
Location: manchester uk
with nunchucks its definatly speed and bounceing it off parts of your body (like wraps but alot faster)
going fast is realy easy with nunchucks they wanta go fast its harder to do em slow and with bounces (which are a peice of piss) you can reverse there direction very fast and easly to. meening unlike poi you dont realy have to plan what your going to do next and if you suddenly realise you can't go any further in the direction your going you just bounce it and go back the way you came
but over all i think burn off on staff is definaltly the cheepist trick of all first thing i ever learnt with fire and still gets one of the best audiance responces
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Buzzsaw...
squat up and down...a bit of thrusting and wiggleng with fire in your crotch...works a treat for the boys in the audience every time!
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errm, just for the former (as long as she didn't take that as a suggestion 
no offence )Catches... catch that poi and let go of it (different direction) - that's my cheapest and always impresses the audience (nts tricks seem to work ALL the time)
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272 posts
Location: midlands!
mmmm weird...faster huh?? i always found that slowing your poi down, just at the right time gets a fair amout of oooooohs and aaaaaaaars
or wraps when on fire if i could be a busy busy bee...
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74 posts
Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
reallyreally fast weave, then the clever bit:
reallyreally slow weave!
But wait, it then gets turned up another notch with:
reallyreally fast weave again!
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Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
then collect your money on the way out
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