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Hey all
i hope u'll all understand me when i say how the hell do i do 'huggies.' I've just come back from the clapham common meeting (awesome guys
) and someone there was telling me about how you sort of hug urself and do a trick behind ur back but they werent all that sure about uit themselves to be able to explain to me....like what tricks u can do, how to get into it and the general technique. Any useful tips or links to other websites would be great 
thanks
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I made a thread about these a while ago...
They're also called crossers. Have a search!!
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this is in the poi goes punk thread.. its one of the last tuts
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O right sorry about that...
thanks
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hugs (the quick route to embracable joy):
1. cross your arms over each other so your left hand is on your right hand side and your right hand on your left hand side.
spin forwards circles (wheelplane).
2. keep your arms in the same position as step 1 but spin your poi in backwards circles instead.
3. now try to go from step 1 to step 2 by turn 180 degrees.
make sure when you turn around that you don't uncross your arms.
go from step 2 to step 1 by turning 180 degrees back again.
when you can do step 3 standing in wallplane, with just a beat in position 1 and a beat in position 2, you're spinning a hug.
hope that makes sense to someone
cole. x
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coleman is wise in the ways of the hug! that does make sense.
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ooooh. I'm gonna try that.
Apparently it's a good cleavage move....
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Yay for cleavage... why didn't I think of this when I was trying to pioneer spinning like a whore?
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.
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lol.i dont have cleavage... o well i'll just grow man boobs instead
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Yay for cleavage... why didn't I think of this when I was trying to pioneer spinning like a whore?
you are obviously not even half the whore you claim to be ed...
not to mention that its quite tricky to 'pioneer' something that has been pretty much mastered already
hmmm, ceiling plane hugs then...
*hatches a simple but undeniably genius-like plan for a video next summer consisting entirely of 'horizontal hugs' (candidate for best move name ever?) performed by as many pretty girlies wearing vest tops as i can possibly find* cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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BTB crosses (hugs) are also good for cleavage.
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good plan! Live well, love much, laugh often...
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aaaaah... will try it. will hit myself, too. looking forward to it
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I made a thread about these a while ago...
They're also called crossers. Have a search!!
that would be helpful if you hadn't thought they were called 'crossovers' when you posted asking about them ed
ed's hug question
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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Huggies + Women = Cleavage
BTB Huggies + Women = An excellent view
Women = Cool
Cleave = Cool
Thus, huggies done by women are the coolest poi move ever.
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OHMYGOODNESS!!!!!!!!! Eeeeeeeeeep
*runs away and hides from coleman's link......*
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I made a thread about these a while ago...
They're also called crossers. Have a search!!
that would be helpful if you hadn't thought they were called 'crossovers' when you posted asking about them ed
ed's hug question
cole. x
Dunno what you're talking about, Cole...
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.
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cole. x
I like ur style coleman
No problem really just wanted to know what they were, how to do em. Which i've found out...
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yay! they work! (sorta... with hitting my legs from time to time but I'm optimistic. Was wearing top with little cleavage just in case
)behind the back though????? no way!!
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btb hugs? havent tried them yet.... they sound difficult
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have a look at this picture beth...
apart from the fact it is a great photo, it has martha (taostar) spinning what looks like a btb hug
they are indeed horrible, but not quite as icky as straight jackets.
cole. x
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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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there's nothing icky about sjs... unless they are real ones..
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you obviously haven't seen my sj's!
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
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I admit I'm crap with 3d stuff, but that looks more like a butterfly thing to me than wheel plane (though originally I thought huggies were done out of the thread the needle, they're more fun that way!!)
but whatever it is, it looks like another one of those things you have to be incredibly flexible or skinny for, so I'll not try
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hugs can be done with poi going same direction or opposite direction, by anyone i reckon.
they're just offset reels.
btb hugs are silly and always look uncomfortable unless you are both very skinny and bendy.
i've never seen sj's spun really clean, nor with with body movements that look like anything other than 'wild flailing'.
not saying they're rubbish - they're just not my thing
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
had her carpal tunnel surgery already thanks v much
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I think I can do bendy... maybe in 10 years time I'll be skinny enough if I stop eating now
though of course by then some of the bendiness will have disappeared... "vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
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i've never seen sj's spun really clean, nor with with body movements that look like anything other than 'wild flailing'.
what about Rob? I saw him do some pretty lush sjs at Glasto
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