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2,758 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
This space is for all those funksters busy improving their technique by learning new moves - made-up or traditional.
Tell us all about it! We love hearing about our fellow poiers/staffies/misc. toyers succeeding with new things
It's just hard to keep up with it all sometimes, so if we keep it together you'll be certain to get a little feedback.
here a pat on the back in advance from me
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old hand
717 posts
Location: Bristol, England
3 or 2 beat BHB butterfly weave. The one with a TTN each side.
Oh and long arm 180 butterflys without hitting myself too much!
"**grumble*spuriouswindmills*grumble**" - Coleman
"if poi was only for girls there wouldnt be many good poi spinners...." - Nx
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
I got my postmodernist computer program to reply "!" to the question "?".
Also: I learned lots of cheeky poi, airwraps the other way. Bluecats sneaky arm goes underneath extra beat airwrap.
And I have been practising anti-spin flowers. Cos they are obviously the prettiest move ever.
Isolated weave is very hard. (My arms are retarded, or possibly I am doing it correctly... Who can tell... )
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
1,376 posts
Location: London, UK
Isolated weave is hard. I can just about do it but there's still a tendancy for one of the transfers to unisolate if I don't concentrate hard enough.
"Moo," said the happy cow.
old hand
717 posts
Location: Bristol, England
Yeah Damn hard.
I've been trying for ages to get it clean and am still not satisfied.
Stupid left poi not isolating all the way through!
They get much though if you've been smoking!
I'm not even gonna think about 5bt isolated weave
"**grumble*spuriouswindmills*grumble**" - Coleman
"if poi was only for girls there wouldnt be many good poi spinners...." - Nx
not with cactus
2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom
yea i cant isolate the transfers very well if at all.. garthy - yours is sweet, i seen it looking very isolated
- i didnt even realise you could isolate the transfers till i saw you doing it 
i forget what ive been learning.
Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
old hand
717 posts
Location: Bristol, England
I've been thinking that maybe looking in the mirror to see if it's isolated wreaks it?
So maybe I can isolate my weaves?
Just not while looking in the mirror.
EDITED_BY: garthy (1099943799)
"**grumble*spuriouswindmills*grumble**" - Coleman
"if poi was only for girls there wouldnt be many good poi spinners...." - Nx
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,749 posts
Location: Europe,Scotland,Both
atomic flowers....
now for the anti....
T
This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti
3,149 posts
Location: London
mind...boggling...
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
old hand
717 posts
Location: Bristol, England
Written by: [Nx?
atomic flowers....
Thats cool! but do you mean the poi at right angles or your arms?
Or both
"**grumble*spuriouswindmills*grumble**" - Coleman
"if poi was only for girls there wouldnt be many good poi spinners...." - Nx
not with cactus
2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom
atomic flowers with no poi
Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,749 posts
Location: Europe,Scotland,Both
both, of course, cos the erms are extended in the atomic plane
feels very very weird.
T
This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti
3,149 posts
Location: London
woo! atomic longarm carries
thankyoutom, you're ace
now flowers you say...
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
not with cactus
2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom
Written by: simian
thankyoutom, you're ace
ditto
Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
275 posts
Location: ati: on: She: ffi: eld: UK:
weave flowers with butterfly arms, and butterfly flowers with weave arms...
and as a consequence of only taking one poi away with me this weekend, contact poi! theres loads of stuff where you wind your arm into the string just enough so the friction holds it on, and slowing down make it slide off... throws and catches that work like snatching an object with a whip, but reversed, if you see what i mean, more like snatching a whip with an object... (also works with feet (and probably objects)) and fish tails and continuous hand rolls and stuff. and thru wraps. and footbag.
And not a move i learned, but one by this dude called pete i met at a bonfire this weekend... three contact balls, throwing each one from his hand to his other shoulder and then running down the arm back to the hand, throwing again... like basic 3 ball juggling but with contact. looked king awesome, with the fire sparking through the balls... he was a bit good. when i first saw him he was staggering about looking really drunk, and i was doing a muntz point-and-laugh when i noticed the two contact balls rolling around, well, everywhere, really, at which point it became a tenticle point-and -gape instead...
--ben
old hand
717 posts
Location: Bristol, England
Thanks to Nx for insperation.......
Atomic Umbrellas? Do the atomic flower arm movement with the poi always at right angles to your arms..
I can do this without poi
"**grumble*spuriouswindmills*grumble**" - Coleman
"if poi was only for girls there wouldnt be many good poi spinners...." - Nx
(the person actually known as Chris Bailey)
544 posts
Location: Austin, TX, USA
I can finally do butterfly airwraps almost on command. Also I learned alot of new style tricks today too.
Peace, Love, Circles
member
14 posts
Location: Marin, San Francisco, California, USA
I know everybody here has got this all down, and I would feel silly posting this if I wasn't so excited. I FINALLY got it!!!!! I got the Weave! I have been trying to teach myself this for months and just couldn't grasp it by looking at all the tutorials online. Finally I gave up for a while, then the other night I said screw it, I'm gonna learn it if it's the last thing I do. And I did it! I DID IT!!! I know this seems kinda funny for all of you doin' hyperloop-butterfly-underhand-7 beat weave-corkscrew combos but I'm just so stoked! Yesssssss! Peace! Jessy
¡Viva La Pacha Mama!
3,149 posts
Location: London
the weave is much harder to learn than all that techy stuff.
it's all about developing control over your poi, and the weave is the first big step.
so well done, you're quite right to be stoked
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
1,376 posts
Location: London, UK
Agreed with simian!
Not really learnt anything major recently, just playing with as many variations on waist wraps as I can think of.
"Moo," said the happy cow.
grumpy poorly froggy
3,999 posts
Location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom
Written by: JRabbette
I know everybody here has got this all down, and I would feel silly posting this if I wasn't so excited. I FINALLY got it!!!!! I got the Weave! I have been trying to teach myself this for months and just couldn't grasp it by looking at all the tutorials online. Finally I gave up for a while, then the other night I said screw it, I'm gonna learn it if it's the last thing I do. And I did it! I DID IT!!! I know this seems kinda funny for all of you doin' hyperloop-butterfly-underhand-7 beat weave-corkscrew combos but I'm just so stoked! Yesssssss! Peace! Jessy
you go ahead and be chuffed, i was when i got the weave... it seemed to take me ages and i would watch the moniter going "WTF???" but when you get it its such a great feeling...
my son has just got the 3b weave and jumped around the house for hours
Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows
1,489 posts
Location: state of confusion
just learned the 2 beat thread the needle......
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
384 posts
Location: West LA
Written by:
hyperloop-butterfly-underhand-7 beat weave-corkscrew combos
Sounds interesting! Underhand as inverse? And do you do the Butterfly-weave in same- or splittime?
To learn - read. To know - write. To master - teach . . .
1,376 posts
Location: London, UK
Atomic airwraps and hyperloops both same and opposite direction. Box weave and atomic weave, which roughly correspond to buzzsaw and normal weaves. Still need to work on turning and combinations though...
"Moo," said the happy cow.
110 posts
Location: ashland OR
hello every one, I have not been doing this for very long only like 2 weeks but I have learned all teh basics and am trying new things every day. I have never seen this. Do the weave in reverse, stick your thumbs out really far and when your right hand is over your left hand you catch the string with your thumb and make it spin in half the size circle it was going to and let go. IF you can do this with both hands the effect is dizzying to watch.. Because you are doing the weave however the poi are spinning an extra revolution from a point that only exists for a second on each side. when you do it in front of you the poi sling shot over your head off of your thumb and can only be described as like the moon circling the earth which is your hand while the both of your hands are still doing the weave which is the solar system.
dont make peoples heads turn, give them whiplash.
hopeless addict
121 posts
Location: nodnoL, United Kingdom
doing a hyperloop when one poi is coming under the armpit (like the one pwople usually do from backwards butterfly), but btb in the wall plane, gotta love late night caffiene fueled poi binges!
Ninjas NEVER give up!
not with cactus
2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom
turning crossers both ways,180 then 360.
Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
1,376 posts
Location: London, UK
Did my first split-time butterfly airwrap earlier... odd things indeed!
"Moo," said the happy cow.
veteran
1,389 posts
Location: Guelph, ON, Canada
Productive day...
+butterfly isos (or some variation thereof),
+someweave thing with wraps that makes it like a million beats on one side *doesn't really know what she did, but it looks cool, and feels accomplished* (I just went and counted it, and going through one whole... left to right right to left, on poi circles 10, and both do that... wiggy),
+the concept of buzzsaw isos (only getting them 50% of the time ._.),
+btb bicep wrap,
+bf to btb bf (dunno why I never tried it before).
Some more, but I forget what it was....
~ Bobo
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fragst mich, wo wir gewesen sind...
du fehlst hier
hopeless addict
121 posts
Location: nodnoL, United Kingdom
all manner of mindgames, i tried writing them down so i could post them but the variations seem to be virtually limitless,
a vid coming soon i hope
Ninjas NEVER give up!
member
29 posts
Location: Texas(now), Scotland / Northern Italy (usually in ...
Well.. I was about to go to sleep but then I watched a couple of Sage's video clips... The two tricks/variations that will now keep me awake until I master them were in the second vid clip.. And forgive my lack of knowledge when it comes to the world of poi terminology but what I found interesting was when she spun the poi under her legs and then brought it back to its position in the simple weave it was just in... The second bit I found visually stimulating was when she was once again doing the weave and then ... nope.. I do not think I will be able to describe it.
.. hmm.. She, I guess, was doing a regular weave and then spun the poi under/through her arms lol.. I managed to do it but what is it called?.. And I just learned the under the legs weave (??) she was also doing. That is realy fun to do! hello?
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