Forums > Advanced Poi Moves > Orbital help please

Posted: 14th Jun 2009
practice with two differently colored sock poi.

release the tug/ bring your hands back in closer together so that the rotation slows down and exit from that.

Posted: 14th Jun 2009
one more thing,
work on developing your sustained hyper-loop control Matt Terry talks about here:


://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsZinyyJrFo

Posted: 14th Jun 2009
Awesome, thankyou very much

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Posted: 14th Jun 2009
Because theres two poi there are two gaps. try two differently coloured poi and then work out which gap you have to go for, ie, after the red one before the blue one or after the blue before the red.

Practice exiting from hyperloops, not orbitals.

Posted: 15th Jun 2009
Don't try to exit when they are spinning too fast. You can slow them down by letting out a bit of slack just before you exit, this should help you see when to exit more easily.

As MNS says, get your exits from hyperloops nice and clean first it will help with your orbitals.

Posted: 16th Jun 2009
As stated different coloured poi help alot when learning to exit orbitals/superduperuberloops and there are also a few different methods out there that are taught in the vids about exiting orbitals.

For me however I do the following, (if I'm starting my orbital from forward spinning poi and entering on my right hand side), allow the spin of the orbital to start to slow and then move my LEFT hand to my LEFT hip and extend my RIGHT hand away from my body to my left hand side and forwards. Ensuring that the poi chains remain parallel to the ground is the one thing I must do for this to work. The poi 95% of the time for me simply unwrap making for a smooth exit and resulting continuation of fluidity in movement.

(As above the same exit placing when doing a hyperloop.)

Posted: 19th Jun 2009
Great help everyone, thankyou, I finally managed to pull a few very sloppy ones out of the bag, but at least I can exit them now so lots of practice to get them nicer... If there is any more tips I should consider they would be very much appreciated

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Posted: 25th Jun 2009
Nick Woolsey has 3 videos with specifics to orbitals/superduperuberloops both entry and exit, one of the 'live lessons' from the bali retreat that was broadcasted has a lot of really good pointers if I remember rightly.