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Location: West LA
I dont know the name of this one but it can be found HERE in the staff lessons. Someone told me its called pinwheel?!?
Definitely more diffucult with Poi, so what one has to practice first:
a.) forwards and backwards onehanded weave with each hand
b.) onehanded passing (quite tricky to pass both Poi at the same time)
good luck and have fun
andy
PS: For those who can already do it - there is an antispin variation too, but its even "a little bit more difficult"
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Bastard Newbie Messiah
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Location: Apparently lost in my ego, USA
but doesnt this moves have a fixed center of rotation?!? like mid back.. I mean isnt the motion of the poi going around leave the pattern of the pinwheel, if it were turning? not like the poi being a pinwheel but the move itself..
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multiplex
611 posts
Location: somewhere..., Germany
Ola Andy!!!
During our performance at the "lange nacht der museen" our staff players had a (fire)battle against the poi players on a bridge and while we were doing the move you are searching a name for, gerald called it pinwheel and i think as you know gerald is someone who really thinks a lot about technical stuff and names for moves, etc. .....so my vote for pinwheel
more new stuff and moves when we see each other...
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Stream Entrant
2,829 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
not really rev, it has two points. one head high (above head), the other coccyx or bum high.
cheers
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384 posts
Location: West LA
So Pinwheel it is - ge sei dank
@ Stone: The Point of rotation stays the same (above the but) - the Poi rotate around one point that itself is rotating around one fixed point. Same principle as flowers.
andy
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Stream Entrant
2,829 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Hi PoiBox2, c wot you mean. Your saying the axis would be in the middle of the back. Which is probably a fair point.
But to me it’s like joining two pinwheels together. I’m thinking a pinwheel is like a catherine wheel, it spins round and round on its own axis. When I do pinwheels like that, I go from pinwheel at hip level to another at head hight.
thanks for the clarification.
cheers
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
It's a pinwheel within a pinwheel then - which I think we can just shorten to pinwheel since noone else is naming another poi move pinwheel yet.
still have yet to manage a second pass with this move...
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
Hey... just to throw another wrench into the machine...
The lovely glowstickers that I met over the weekend call a 'buzzsaw' a 'pinwheel' too.
I'd pick a different name. But then again, I'm often wrong.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Stream Entrant
2,829 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
hi vanize, how’s it going?
That would be a pinwheel in a windmill, right
Try the above club move, for a “real” pinwheel
hehehe. From a carry, take one hand in front and the other behind, spin in split-time. Change hands, the go high. A “buzsaw” NYC, do u mean "little wheels" or "bust the nose" or with fire “burn the nose” ?
cheers
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Bastard Newbie Messiah
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Location: Apparently lost in my ego, USA
yes.. yes he does..
and I agree with nyc.. the staffers like it.. but that's also because they don't have conflicting terminology..
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enthusiast
270 posts
Location: USA
I'd suggest "fisting the fairy," but that name's already been taken too!
https://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/thread/545...e9-c39cae234383
Seriously, though... I think Andy can probably charm the glittering goddess to change her terminology so that a windmill is a windmill and a pinwheel is a pinwheel. ;-)
Now for my next trick... the BTB Seattle-Style Fisting The Fairy Grand Magic with a little Funky Chicken thrown in.
enthusiast
270 posts
Location: USA
BTW, Andy, while you're in LA, and speaking of buttons on the ends of your handles...
Bearclaw's handles have grommets in them... around the hole where the kevlar loops back through. I always found this annoying on my fingers, so I'd pull the handles out and use them as a single loop. This could give you the button that you're looking for on the end.
https://www.bearclawmfg.com/s_grips.html
HOP librarian
1,841 posts
Location: Prague, Czech. Republic
OK!
I've got.
light,
:R
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