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Posted: 25th Nov 2008
Wow, it really depends on where you want to go, what you want to do.

If you are interested in individual moves, like you have been doing. You can check through video section and the moves section in technical posting for more inspiration on things to learn. Thread the needle, flowers, windmills, corkscrews, isolations, atoms, stalls, throws, wraps, pendulums, on and on...*so* much on that front.

If you are interested in more "choreography" stuff, you can take what you know and start to lace them together and make them flow one move into the next.

If you just want to dance. Throw on music and go, just to see where you end up. Many moves were born of this "freestyle, organic, see where the music can take me" playfulness.

You can do all of them. Freestyle, throwing in moves you know to get them to flow and adding in new ones when you learn them.

You are in such a great place to develop and grow!

Pele
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Posted: 26th Nov 2008
[Old link].

NathaniealEverist a few posts down has a list of what he is planning as videos. It covers a farily wide selection, so pick and mix from there if you want new moves.

After that, and some specific help for the original poster, it veers off into hairy "how best to present poi moves to beginners" discussion.

Otherwise, what Pele said.

Personally, I would suggest nailing the butterfly, there are lots of variations and things to play with once you have it down. But that might be because I like butterfly hip reels....

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Posted: 26th Nov 2008
I honestly don't think flowers can be learned early enough.... they're all simple relationships of poi to poi, poi to arm and arm to arm. (You can then separate the poi into handle or hand, cord and head once it gets more complicated.)

It gives you a new way to look at the ways in which all the poi movements are related to one another. I'll bash together a video this friday that you can watch... but only watch the first component of it with an intent to learn, it will get more complicated, but feel free to watch out of curiousity. ^_^

Posted: 26th Nov 2008
I would agreed with MNS, go for flowers, they are lovely and maybe start looking into Antispin stuff? I would say where you are now, take a good song you like and build a little routine to it.

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