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What????
How?????
was hibernating through winter.....oh and summer i spose...ok im just lazy
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k sorry was hibernating through winter.....oh and summer i spose...ok im just lazy
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jon - you can't link to searches
quick armwrap explanation - spin forward, then when the poi comes to the top of the circle, stick your hand near your shoulder and poke your elbow out to the side.
the poi should wrap round your outstretched elbow until it hits, then bounce it back out and unwrap the other way, so you end up spinning backwards.
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ANYONE who talks about how people should 'please do searches' should TRY searching for a useful thread that tells you how to arm-wrap if you know this site so bloody well and care so much about threads not being duplicated
(edit - this isn't aimed at Durbs who is generally lovely
he's just following a bad method of redirection that's been established and maintained on this site by the moderators)no doubt this will be met with another reply from a moderator about how they don't have time to do that. thats what happens every time i say this.
but if you can't find it easily then how the hell are people new to the site expected to?
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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i'm in love with simian!
thank you "follows him around like a sick puppy" i did try the search it was about as pants as ......as......."struggles to think".........PANTS...... *i showed them* was hibernating through winter.....oh and summer i spose...ok im just lazy
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thats cool
mind you don't trip over my soapbox on the way out...
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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S'mone muthafuka - i wasnt trying to link to it. Im just plain Lazy
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"cherishes soap box in worship"
was hibernating through winter.....oh and summer i spose...ok im just lazy
Classically British
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In my defence - I do usually link to relevant pages, but was being lazy. I'd just written the colour flames FAQ darn it!
(Fire Swords, Wire Wool being the next fun challenges)
Burner of Toast
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read it ....it was very good actually......................
was hibernating through winter.....oh and summer i spose...ok im just lazy
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Durbs you bad boy
heheheSwords ehhhh
do ya get me drift??
Lisa
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are you saying you like swords?
of the firey variety particularly?
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no silly she is refering to a sexual act between her and durbs.......(Including the swords) "shudders" goodness you are silly sometimes uliginous....."chuckles"
was hibernating through winter.....oh and summer i spose...ok im just lazy
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Errr have you seen the one I own
as for the fire kind...I'm open to ideas
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.
Classically British
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What was wrong with my FAQ anyway? Hmmmm?
I'm off to polish my whip...
...of the chain variety
Burner of Toast
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nothing ..."passes durbs some polish of the polishy variety"
was hibernating through winter.....oh and summer i spose...ok im just lazy
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nothing wrong with it i wasn't being sarcastic i was saying that it was good.....seems i'm being quite mistaken today....
was hibernating through winter.....oh and summer i spose...ok im just lazy
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It was the "
" at the end of the sentance Burner of Toast
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no thats just my demented face....lol sorry i didn't mean to.....
was hibernating through winter.....oh and summer i spose...ok im just lazy
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you look much happier as an angel
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.
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Location: South Wales
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Errr have you seen the one I own
You know I have. Its a lovely sword.
And its even all shiney!
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there's also a thread called basic wrap theory.. which will take you from nowhere up to a base knowledge for uncovering new wrap possibilities on your own.. I plane to put out the mid level wrap theory by early summer if family members would quit dying..
unfortunately like on pitp this version was not spaced and clored lovely like on spherc, nor complete with vid links either..
More useless information courtesy of Rev...
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This is definitely the strangest thread in "Poi moves" in a long time.
I guess this is what happens when girls post in Poi Moves.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
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I guess this is what happens when girls post in Poi Moves.
shhhhh.......
dont put them off, we want more girls here
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They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
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Thanks for doing the search for this person Simian
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I guess this is what happens when girls post in Poi Moves.
"hits NYC on the nose"
was hibernating through winter.....oh and summer i spose...ok im just lazy
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Okay can someone tell me the most simple arm wrap? why they are used? and how u would link them in with your spinning?
i dont understand the basic concept lol
so i don't have to breath you in
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in my opinion the most simple arm wrap is where you wrap the poi that is in youre right hand around the bit of youre arm between youre hand and youre elbow, on youre left arm.
practise doing it with one poi.
its easyest to not let much of the length of the poi wrap around, just let the very end (near the head) wrap. and the head will bounce off nicely
they are used to change the direction that the poi is spinning, and to look pretty
the wrap i described above can be used to transition from weave to butterfly smoothly. or visa versa..
go play
hope ive helped
Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
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One thing i have seen that looks rather cool, and isnt really that hard, so long as you have heavy heads, is 4 wraps, one after another, in butterfly.
Start with fwd butterfly
wrap on right arm
wrap on left arm (now in reverse butterfly)
wrap on right
wrap on left (back to fwd)
The trick is doing it one straight after the other, so that..well, its really hard to explain. but there are no 'slack' beats between wraps. kinda like the alternate butterfly is to the mexican wave. I'll wirte more detailed later, if needed. just pm me if thats not clear.
Or another one, that i think looks cool, is a leg wrap, from forward to backward butterfly. As they cross at the top of the circle, lift one leg straight out - either one, dont matter which - and wrap both poi around the outstretched leg. This is a pretty cool looking changeover, i think, anyway. One thing, though, is to make sure that one hand is pretty far in front of the other, or they tangle.
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Wahh-hay my first ever post
!!!Just wondering, are wraps meant to work with bean bag type poi. I'm just discovering I bruise easy
...I couldn't find much about this in any of all your previous advice's...
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