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Thought about adding this to the club swinging thread but figured it was a different enough skill to warrant a new thread. This one is for contacty type moves, if you have a cool spinning move post it in the other thread.

So I've just got into club manipulation and contact club. So far im only doing contact staff moves with clubs but i've seen some pretty sick manipulation at conventions and would love to learn some more. I dont know the names of any club manipulation moves so if anyone could enlighten me with some moves or even better a video or 2 id be grateful.

So, tricks i have so far;
Fishtails, can only hold them for around 4 or 5 beats but getting better.
Minimum front side steve which seems easier than a steve, sometimes an actual steve.
Angel rolls, not that hard if you have them fairly solid with a staff.
Halo rolls, again not that hard if you can do them with a staff.
Conveyor belts, seem to be quite easy to enter but bloody hard to exit cleanly.
Head spins, actually easier than with a staff.

Thats about everything so far, I know there are some people out there that are doing some really cool stuff so would love to hear from them.

One of the main things i have found is that entering a move with the club handle facing up rather than down (so it is upside down) seems to make it behave better.

Obviously clubs are a totally different prop to staffs so there must be a whole world of moves i havnt even thought of yet. What id like to see from this thread is something like the 'i learnt a new staff move' thread a while back, where we all tried each others moves and posted variations we found along the way.

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