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Posted: 9th Aug 2005
yeah twirling videos have yet to be decent tutorials.

i can only speak from my own experience - it was more to showcase what my twirling style looked like than for any educational capacity.
that it's a good platform to promote what backing choonz you like!

ps meow.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2005
The learning process is all part of it - don't worry, you'll get there Just don't forget that what you can do now is still fun, and that's why you do it. Get yourself to some events, meet those "poi gods", and you'll realise they're normal people (well, almost) just like you, and they're more than happy to show you how they do all those silly things.

Personally I love watching videos because they give me more ideas to play with...

"Take that, math!"

Posted: 10th Aug 2005
Yep.

The people who contribute tutorials to Spherc, HoP and Pip have been playing and practicing for years... they're giving up their time and energy to try to help other people through those vids.

It's a bit intimidating, but also exciting (not disheartening) to see how far those people have been able to take their art.

Enjoy and appreciate that they're available... and use them to improve, not to feel inadequate.

Getting to the other side

Posted: 10th Aug 2005
i remember when i first went on spherc... i thought matt was crazy just cuz of UTL throws... which i now do with fire with ease... (im pretty good compared to other poi spinners in israel, but pretty average compared to spinners worldwide...)
so just relax, and just watch those vids for inspiration... try to learn the base patterns of most the moves matt does... (like airwrap throw, learn airwrap and throw and then try that...) at first everything looks hard, i mean TTN looked really hard to me until last year, and then i learnt hyperloops and stuff and now i see that it's really a basic move...

Posted: 10th Aug 2005
"it wont happen again "

oh..

complianing is the only way to get things sorted. Its like helpfully telling someone their bad points. They cant change them if they dont know about them

Posted: 10th Aug 2005
When I started on |S| I was very early in my spinning knowledge- no 5 bt weaves, no tangles, no throws, little body movement. The videos on the site both intimidated and inspisred me though- If you stick with the site, post in the forums and really care about learning, you will get to a level where you can play with the more complex stuff int the videos.

I wouldn't be the poi adddicted man I am if it weren't for the site

Posted: 10th Aug 2005
i remember the early days of spinning, 3 beat weaves forward and BACKWARDS...............wow, then i came here and saw the so called "poi gods" i was amazed and intimidated by thier skill..........

Dont be scared by them they are all loverly and were all in your shoes once..

Take BamBam for instance - i always thought she was a poi god, then i met her - i mean how wrong was i!!

Shes a poi godess

Have fun dude and stick with it!

"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."

Posted: 10th Aug 2005
If it helps, I feel the same way sometimes as well, and I know I'm one of the people that other people sometimes feel that way about. When I watch Andy do some of the things he does, I think... Damn, how am I ever going to find the time to do that so well.

...And I might never find the time. People are coming up with so much stuff that maybe we need to pick the area we want to go in. I have to accept that I may never do one handed stuff like Andy, or wibbling like Matt, etc. Also, there is stuff that those guys do that they are simply more tuned to. Even if I get the time to put as many hours of practice in that Andy has put into one handed stuff.. that still might not make me as good as Andy at one handed stuff.

So ultimately the way to happiness is to give up wanting to be "good." But I'm even further from that kind of spiritual enlightenment than some of these moves I see these guys doing! So I'll just keep doing my best to practice happily at the stuff I like practicing, whilst admiring and enjoying all this other stuff others do that's so fun to watch.

...n

"They're interdimensional fractal intelligences. That's why they wear funny shoes."

Posted: 10th Aug 2005
it's great that the word 'fun' was mentioned three times already here.
sometimes that is forgotten, important as it is!

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Posted: 12th Aug 2005
hi firestarter

I just wanted to tell you one thing :
everything you see isn't too difficult to learn

believe me
I never had a teacher and just learned by watching the videos and now see - I can do all of the moves I ever saw on videos

just practice one year 1 hour a day and there will be no more frustrating moments when watching a new vidyo

Posted: 15th Aug 2005
@ max
and

the best things i can suggest have already been suggested


1: meet some really good spinners(there are LOTS ). and yes, they are normal people, who on the whole will help you understand what you couldn't get from video

2; don't worry about it. you'll develop at your own pace and create your own style, and discover tht something you are having difficulty with now will osmose into your brain and you'll try it in six months and wonder what all th bother was about.

and enjoy yourself.

hugs
R

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

Posted: 15th Aug 2005
on another note, pk is in italy with his goddess and may be hard to get a hold of, try going into his into thread and talking to him or PMing him, his www.poiinthepark.net website is currently offline, but hopefully should be back soon

Hope this helps sorry i wasnt help to give my opinion on the vids thing, i just woke up

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2005
hi everyone

thanks for all the encouragement. i feel alot better.

i just realized that this was moved to the videos section. and i didnt think i was gonna get so many responses cause imo i thought i sounded like a whiny little girl. ha

but on the brighter side im gettin the hang of stuff. ive recently went thru the entire video section and dled every video that i could so im pretty happy about that. and i also have the circles of light videos. my problem i think was not practicing enough or not putting enough effort into trying to sort out new moves. im gettin the hang of the five beat ttn and im kinda gettin airwraps. although some of the stuff oli does is absolutely amazing. he is really inspirational.

so yeah thanks again everyone. all you guys rock.

byeeeee
bobby

Posted: 24th Aug 2005
xxfirestarterxx0413,

I think your problem with spherculism is that you aren't involved in the forums.

I sent you a really nice PM on spherc when you first posted this thread to see how long it took you to respond, but you never did

Why is this thread on hop but not on spherc?

Why have you never asked how to do stuff in the videos?

I hope you got that pm cos i've just deleted my sentbox

Oh dear, oh well. Come talk to me on spherc and i'll totally sort you out with anything you don't understand.

Oh yeah, and there's no beginner section on spherc, cos it's not entirely for beginners (well that's not really true cos i'm still just a beginner), so the fourth video might be the 104 from beginner level, so don't worry. I'm guessing you're talking about the butterfly section which goes something like.

1) Basic butterfly
2) Basic butterfly backwards
3) 3 Beat Impossible Weave
4) 5 beat Impossible weave


so for me there was about a 2 year gap between #2 and #3 and another year between #3 and #4

Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.