2 and 3 poi throws

some ideas I've been playing with:

2 poi basics:

-follow time, swing both poi to the side, then while letting both go push the handle a bit up so that the poi don't spin, just lay in the air horizontally, then catch each poi into the other hand. just a kind of change of hands for the poi. oli does something similar in the nocake vid I think.

-follow time, weave plane, rev spin. just throw both poi at once. the tough part is to make it look good, e.g. to throw both poi with the same strenght and in the same general direction, many times the left hand will throw somewhere else. takes a little practice. not much of an effect IMO but important to know if you want to learn more smile

my variations:

throw, do a 360 pirouette and catch.
throw, catch and go straight to full 180 low turn, then same throw and catch. insert pirouettes at will. VERY tricky unless you do a idle circle before the throw but can be done with a little practice.
throw, do a 180 pirouette and catch btb. here it's VERY important to throw the poi as equally as possible, if you do it well the poi just land in your hands
throw from btb both under the legs
fw spin, throw from front under the legs to back, then do a 180 and catch. tricky cause from the beginning you can't throw too high and have very little time to spot the poi and catch them.

all these also apply to split time throws, some of which are a little easie IMO, esp the one rev > utl throw.

the point in all under the leg throwing is to keep both legs on the ground, just pulling them more or less apart so you have space to get the poi inbetween.

I have not yet explored 2 poi throws in butterflies, especially coz I don't do much bt's and the poi tend to be thrown too far apart to keep track of. but keep in touch, I will get to them sooner or later. biggrin

and now, for something completely different:

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and now back to our topic:

3 poi throws:

just started practicing these. I can hardly do a 3 3 0 tho I'm getting to it, I just need a third poi similar to those I already have so I can try three.

what one poi should do for a start as i see it:
you swing the poi, throw from the inside, poi does a full turn, catch in other hand vertically, change of direction as the poi falls down from vertical position and it goes down into the swing from which to throw it.

tho I'm not sure if it will work with three poi, when I count it there are still some half beats missing. but I think it will be well possible this way tho it won't be very accurate.

questions..? comments..?

I probably will update as I learn more.
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