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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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3,638 posts
Location: Brum / Dorset / Fairy Land
.......... and things
Geologists do it in the dirt................ 
old hand
716 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Steve to matrix and a bucnch of variants on that theme, also hopefully the steve cartwheel by the end of today (nice one ros)
Just realised this is a poi thread oops..
corkscrew hyperloops then
EDITED_BY: -sandy- (1120045319)
"Don't do it naked!"
HOP librarian
1,841 posts
Location: Prague, Czech. Republic
Coaster wheel
,... so hard to describe.....ok,The basis:
Body stay is wall plane, but the hands move towards you.
Stop Poi and let tham touch your both wrists.
Let twist em than with heads in the middle, like big
wheel in lunapark, for a while.
You get double wrist wraps, with lot of fun than
(It remind mi one finger game with string in a ring)
:R
POI THEO(R)IST
mischeivious pixie
291 posts
Location: Sydney, Australia
i just learnt flowers...ooooooooooooh pretty flowers
"I dont want no fatty bumbum, i want a lean mean shagging machine" anon
"I'm sweet and wholesome with a little bit of filth thrown in"
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
3,638 posts
Location: Brum / Dorset / Fairy Land
today i learnt:
bizarre hyperloopy thingammy-jig
standing on people
antispin turns (flowers)
whip catch things
matrix with a stick (eep)
some parts of a throw-waistwrap-throw-catch/miss thing
fishtail bits (not strictly poi but I'm promised this is possible.........)
other stuff
Geologists do it in the dirt................
1,262 posts
Location: Cornwall & Oxford
lol standing on people? nice one!
you'll have to show me your whip catches at falmouth. so many people have learnt new stuff, i feel like im lagging behind quite a bit, practice practice i suppose
Aim high and you'll know your limits, aim low and you'll never know how high you could have climbed.
slack rating - 9.5
2,216 posts
Location: Suburbiton, Yoo-Kay, United Kingdom
i haven't posted properly in here in ages cos can never remember what i knew before or could and couldn't do. anyway though, today i *think* i've started getting: antispin flower turns (snap miss fluffster) but not yet in butterfly, a 'proper' 5bt straight arm butterfly weave (might already have had this at some point), beginning to understand hyperloops 'properly' and have even started being able to power them an ickle bit (hoping for continous + transitions eventually but no promises yet), a new throw and catch into waistwrap...
other than that have sorted out a few bits an bobs to do with extended turns from various places and other basics, and generally just had a good spin!
It is our fantasies that make us real. Without our fantasies we're just a blank monkey' - Terry Pratchett
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
Written by: duballstar
generally just had a good spin!
ditto
learnt some lovely new x:y bits out of bf reels and into bf weaves and offset timing in flowers is coming on nicely too.
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
Ok so i dont float in here much...............
but last night i played with poi for about 4hrs! without touching a staff
Im pleased to say....... after 3 years of trying i can Airwrap!
been hyperlooping all directions for ages, but the airwrap has been a little annoyance of mine for years 
not any more......... id like to thank the people that tried teaching me.......... so thats EVERYONE Also started flowery stuff, feels differant with poi but i was actually starting to get them in forward and butterlfy with turns!
Thats enuf poi progression for this year me finx!
**pix up stix**
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
newbie
4 posts
Location: USA
there are a LOT of posts.... and I'm finally registered on HOP... ive been spinning glowsticks for almost 5 years now... near chicago and i STILL cant seem to figure out anything but a 2 or 3 beat weave... forward.... btb moves still perplex me and i can do all my tricks forwards and backwards xcept for windmills. i will be picking up a set of fuzzy poi and the vids soon i hope it helps... i have a "new" wrap i made up... although i may have just not seen it before... start in a forward weave and wrap around your left wrist (while on your right side) with your right hand poi, and wrap the other (left poi) around your right elbow at the same time... now you reverse direction, or you can turn and stay forwards.... if it hasnt been done it should open up a few variations for longer weaves for you vets out there
1 + 1 = 3
3,540 posts
Location: Bristol UK
Just about cracked anti spin flowers. Me!! Anti spin!! Look out durbs!!
Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
chemical attraction
1,097 posts
Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
iv recently learned:-
flowers
antispin flowers
waistwraps
butterfly waistwraps
5bt reverse weave
3bt behind the back weave both ways
chemical attraction
1,097 posts
Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
ooooooh
5bt corkscrew and 5bt windmill
5,300 posts
Location: everywhere
mmmm.
200+ propellors(stopped counting then)
10 poi on poi propellors
antispin windmill extensions
'proper' contact poi matrix
some straightjacket knots.
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
Bastard Newbie Messiah
1,269 posts
Location: Apparently lost in my ego, USA
Written by: bluecat
some straightjacket knots.
o.O
More useless information courtesy of Rev...
Confusing the masses, one post at a time...
"Obviously, you're not a golfer.."- The Dude
"Buy the ticket... Take the ride..." -Raoul Duke
"FEMA has never done catastrophe planning..."-Michael Brown
5,300 posts
Location: everywhere
?
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
HOP librarian
1,841 posts
Location: Prague, Czech. Republic
Probably straight jacket KNOTS? Where.
You meen thru wraps, right
Edit:
Hyperloop redirection
Its Weave Hyperloop with nexus by the Poi heads. Poi tangle,
stop, untangle into reverse dirrection.
light
,:R
EDITED_BY: Richee (1120420197)
POI THEO(R)IST
5,300 posts
Location: everywhere
oh.
well, i'm using the term loosely to describe a few things that look like that.
a) tangling then entering strainghtjacket(requires isolated tangle and fast straightjacket hug turn)
b)getting a dynamic airwrap when arms are already straightjacketed(hardest)
c)using straightjacketed arms and gilligans, and pretending you can knot your arms too.
better?
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
bastard child of satan
1,113 posts
Location: Raanana, Israel
ummm.... lots of stuff...
1. crosser->BTL with one poi->other side crosser
2. reverse BF hyperloops
3. whip catches
4. reverse BF hyperloops->throw->tapback->whip catch
5. BTB inversions (sketchy)
6. corkscrew throws
7. corkscrew hyperloop->weave hyperloop
8. hyperloop turn (fwd->bwd) without untangling
9. BTB UTL windmill getting cleaner...
that's it...
and dammit bluecat.... how did u do those SJ tangles?? i've already given up on SJ as no one that doesn't poi likes them and it hurts after 2 mins of practicing...
Bastard Newbie Messiah
1,269 posts
Location: Apparently lost in my ego, USA
blue- you don't find 'a' harder than 'b'? I mean the exit on 'b' can be a monster, but 'a' imo ismuch harder.. but maybe that's discussion best kept to a thread.. thnks for clearing up the confusion..
More useless information courtesy of Rev...
Confusing the masses, one post at a time...
"Obviously, you're not a golfer.."- The Dude
"Buy the ticket... Take the ride..." -Raoul Duke
"FEMA has never done catastrophe planning..."-Michael Brown
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
more throws:
half spins on each side out of weaves - all directions
half spin followtime shoulder throws
and i discovered suicide wraps are infinitely easier with double ended poi
went on a mini vertical reel exploration - offsets make for some nice variation here.
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Member
6 posts
Location: Seattle, USA
Figured out this weekend:
5 beat reverse weave (finally!! the left side of that has been a PITA)
butterfly weave
single hand butterfly and btb butterfly (with sock poi for now)
butterfly turns
various TNT combos, including this neat feeling TNT that has the arms constantly wrapping around each other(a lot like what the last beat of the 5 beat weave feels like). can do it in reverse TNT smoothly - working on making it work in forwards (anybody know what i'm talking about?)
Been a fun weekend
now available in "advanced"
6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
So, I got a few more stalls working nicely, and a bit more antispinny flowery stuff cleaner.
All I have to do now is get my spaccy right hand to do things as well as my left!
My state of mind is not yours to define!
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
old hand
717 posts
Location: Bristol, England
Got some of the antispin parrallel poi flowers the Bluecatery showed me at Glastonbury!
Now to try and turn them
Also "the Duck" and the "Double Duck"
Thanks UCOF 
"**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
^ the global consicenceness
i been playing parralle stuff to, not antipin flowers though
but im slowly getting a few weaves working, and it seems to feel pretty cool, also gettung a few random strange transitions into paralle stuff from pendulum srtuff . Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
member
91 posts
Location: dark sun, Germany
I can finally do a 7 beat weave (it was a tricky one!) It still needs improvement though.
& btb 3 beat weave both forwards and backwards pretty smoothly.
still trying those hyperloops...
I'll tell you this...
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. "Jim Morrison"
****
"...but I, being poor, have only my dreams
I've spread my dreams under your feet
tread softly because you tread on my dreams..." Yeats
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
vertical reels were hard last night but it meant i finally got round to learning more bits of btb waistwraps (how many years has it been...?)
there's only one i can't do now (clockwise poi, top carry).
as a consequence i inadvertantly learnt fwd-rev 3bt weave btb in wallplane and i found i can get extra circles in a few of the positions too now
gotta keep raising that bar just though - waistwrap goal is now: full 4bt ww, in all directions.
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
1,810 posts
Location: London
Yayyyy to Mr Coleman for teaching me all the above in his last post
You're a great teacher Mr Cole A kiss blown is a kiss wasted, the only kind of kiss is a kiss tasted.
I'm a woman. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating and not just a LITTLE bit scary.
434 posts
Location: Cardiff, The Diffshire
Propellors
poi showers
btb poi showers
poi fountains
waistwrap hyperloops, both ways
behind the head hyperloopy goodness!
O.B.E.S.E. Official Potato man.
Remeber kids.... Its all fun and games until someone loses a bol**ck!
1,262 posts
Location: Cornwall & Oxford
showers?
Aim high and you'll know your limits, aim low and you'll never know how high you could have climbed.
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