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Location: Oklahoma (from New York...), USA
i watch some of these videos... and i just become so depressed that i probably wont ever reach such levels of talent....
how much is practice, and how much is just the natural abitity of timing and beat and ability.
i dont want to give up... and i dont have the space or chance to practice in a possitive environment...i am sad
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36 posts
Location: Oklahoma (from New York...), USA
i hear it all the time... and i just dont see it working.
ill be back home soon, ive survived this long.
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Spin to fusion jazz LOL
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Location: Chicago, USA
Remember: even if you suck, by practicing you cannot help but get better.
You can't make yourself worse.
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Location: Leeds
Im pretty rubbish too, but not been doing it very long, no matter how bad you are you will always look totally cool to your non spinning friends
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newbie
17 posts
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Ive only been spinning since september and Id say im pretty rubbish as far as spinners go!
But its so cool to whack on a really upbeat tune that u love and just go for it! Usually you'll mess up one move and in the process discover a new one!!
Thing is though, the more u practise, the better u get. Even if it takes like a month to figure out how to do a backwards weave *hangs head in shame*
you'll get it in the end!! 
Its tru aswell, even if u think u are ultimatly crap, ur mates will be like woooooow thats amaaaaaaaaazing
Then you can just sit back and go..*sigh* yes, i am quite a legend, arent i... hahaStick with it! Its fun!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
2,895 posts
Location: Cambridge UK
You can go on comparing yourself to other people for ages and always be dissatisfied with your spinning, as there will always be someone who spins better than you, does some trick that you can't or dances nicer etc, etc.
The most satisfaction lies in personal development: don't compare yourself to someone who's better than you: seek your own path, whether that's in dancing more, being more technical, coming up with silly tricks that are purely for your own gratification and that of other spinners (try explaining the joys of the ucof principle, etc. to non-spinners)
and yes, even if all you can do is a three beat weave, do it really fast and look like a nutter and people will believe you are good (as long as they can't do more than that with poi)
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Location: Colchester, England (UK)
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and lots of empathy "Always keep your bowler on in times of stress and watch out for diabolical masterminds" - Emma Peel
newbie
17 posts
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Gona perhaps ask a really stupid question to make me look really unbelievably stupid and you might all laugh heartily at me....what on earth is the ucof principle!!!???
*cringe..runs away blushing clutching childhood teddy*
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5,300 posts
Location: everywhere
er.
something very, very silly about non tangling tangles.
(blushes with shame for such a naming)
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
newbie
17 posts
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
OMG ive totally seen videos of that. Yeh like when ur spinning happily away and then twist the chains/cord whatever round each other on PURPOSE and its way cool and then they magically untangle!!
WOOHOO! ok right, but how the
do u do it!!??no way, ok i dont want to kno cos i only just mastered backward weave and windmill. I am SOOOO not ready for such brilliance.
*totally in awe of untangling tangler spinners*
Nobody wants their ex to be having a better time than them. They should write letters stating their undying love and then they should die. ~Joan Rivers ~
1 + 1 = 3
3,540 posts
Location: Bristol UK
I always thought the UCoF principle had more to do with the Funny, silly moves, that only us spinners find funny...
But the tangles, they're fun. I wouldn't run before you can walk, though...
As soon as I get a nice Sunny day, I'll make an Airwrap tutorial Video.
Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
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Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
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er. its not about tangles, per se, its more about. er. er.... not tangliong when you should...
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
1 + 1 = 3
3,540 posts
Location: Bristol UK
Sorry, Rob... you're still being too cryptic...
You're gonna have to go into details, methinks...
Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
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no
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
5,300 posts
Location: everywhere
go for it on the airwrap tutorials tho. i'd like to, but i think i'm under contract to the beast of the spherculoid...
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
"er. its not about tangles, per se, its more about. er. er.... not tangling when you should... "
Yes.
newbie
17 posts
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
*confused*
Nobody wants their ex to be having a better time than them. They should write letters stating their undying love and then they should die. ~Joan Rivers ~
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Location: Angels Landing, USA
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its all "WHHHAAAATT... OOOKKKKK".
not my cup..
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Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
Written by: HelenG
*confused*
That's a common state of mind to be in around UCoF and Bluekitty. Don't worry, just remember to back away from them without making too much eye contact. They rarely bite and if they do start charging toward you, just throw an open packet of hobnob into the air. It will distract them long enough for you to run for it!
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57 posts
Location: Berlin, somewhere
Written by: Mot
You can teach yourself to do anything,
I dont know about your 1% theory UCOF, are those 1% not just the obsessive complusives. It's all well and good to say, look at that spinner, he's a natural, I'll never be that good. But the spinner in question has spent such a huge amount of time into training. Years and years and years. So of course they are good. I guess it all boils down to how much time your willing to spend at it. And garunteed, if you spend an hour a day practicing, for the next three years, you'll be able to spin with the best of them.
I grok.
Anecdote:
After a concert of I-don't-remember-which-piano-player, a woman goes to him and say
"That was wonderful. I really wish I could play like that. I would give my life for that"
"I did" was the answer.
So. I don't know, maybe THERE IS people that are good from the beginning on; I am never. I am always a lousy beginner, and the only way to begin something, for me, is
a) to have fun in it (spinning was great) and
b) to do it on my own for a while, so that I don't feel too much that I suck.
Ok, maybe having someone supportive is not that bad, too.
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"Angels fly because they don't take themselves too seriously"
G.C. Chesterson
newbie
17 posts
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Nah i dont reckon. I played the piano since i was four yrs old and reached the top examination terms when i was 17. Thirteen years, and I did it fairly fast in learning piano terms! Learning piano is way way hard and definitely requires sum kind of natural flair for it. Duno if its maybe the ability to coordinate both hands easily or if u just have an ear for music
no idea haha and i cant describe it, but sumhow i know it is totally different to learning poi. 
*steps off and invites anyone else to join in*haha sorry totally not ranting. Just that poi took me six months to be able to hold myself pretty well with a fire show and piano took me all my life and im still learnin...
*shuts mouth and sits in corner!*
Nobody wants their ex to be having a better time than them. They should write letters stating their undying love and then they should die. ~Joan Rivers ~
Carpal \'Tunnel
2,895 posts
Location: Cambridge UK
*steps onto soapbox*
If you have no more tricks to learn after six months, then either you're a superfast learner, or you need some inspiration! Look at people like Meenik, who spin with incredible grace and style but still accept that they are still learning, all the time. I think it's really not that different, surely if you do a piano recital it's a similar thing to doing a poi show? and every time you will play with either you will be looking to expand your ability? After 6 months are you impressing people who know what the possibilities of poi really are, or just people off the street? like the difference between a skilled musician and joe bloggs listening to your recital and coming back with criticism?
basically, you can impress people with a shoddy 3 beat weave, so long as you do it *really* fast. Just like I'd be impressed by anyone who can play any tune more complicated than 'twinkle, twinkle little star'.
However, people tend to listen to music more than they watch poi so they know what to listen for, whereas they won't be looking for clean planes/dance technique/atomics/antispin/whatever.
Hope that makes sense?
*steps off soapbox*
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1,376 posts
Location: London, UK
I'd consider myself a good spinner - albeit one still with a thousand things to learn and improve - but it took a good couple of years to learn the very basics. Heck, I gave up at one point because I couldn't get the reverse 3bt weave... Stick with it and things will improve, you'll get to a point where even learning most new things feels a lot more natural.
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446 posts
Location: Sunny South Africa
Even the pros had to learn, even if you have natural talent it doesnt always show, sometimes you need to practice a bit more, the more you practice the more it will show. No one just picked up poi and were good at it. Keep at it and eventually you will get there even if it takes a while
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newbie
17 posts
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
omg no way I so have waaaaay loads to learn definitely!!! and yeh reckon you don't stop learning either!! All I was getting at is, its taken me longer to get to where i am musically than with spinning... I don't even know if I am being clear in what I am tryin to say, Prob not. Just reckon its hard to compare poi to piano thats all. Coming from both sides of the fence....
Nobody wants their ex to be having a better time than them. They should write letters stating their undying love and then they should die. ~Joan Rivers ~
Are you up for it??
349 posts
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Written by: Renface
i watch some of these videos... and i just become so depressed that i probably wont ever reach such levels of talent....
It was watching "those" videos & people doing it it town that made me go "wow, I want to be able to do that"
I also thought (to start with) that I'd never be able to do that.
1 year on, now I'm the one going down to my local reserve by the beach having other people saying that with what I do (& I'm still not that good (yet)
As far as piano & poi go, I think any art form is a continuous learning curve.
Keep at it & have fun
Are you up for it?;)
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