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Posted: 28th Mar 2003
Hey there sweetie.
Two things.

Check the angle of your forearm. For behind the head stuff if you are tilting your arm downwards then the poi will thwak you in the back.

Also check to make certain your palms are facing up, no matter what you do. It can be awkward to adjust to but it makes the movement of the poi eaiser.

Hope this helps. If I think of anything else I will be sure to post!

Pele
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Posted: 8th Apr 2003
hey

i am very new at all this, but one piece of advice i found very helpful in figuring out where i was going wrong and how to repair it was to point your fingers where you want the poi to go

also what pele was saying about your palms facing up, for most of these moves your hands/arm should be in a certain position at a certain stage, if you check on the website here, art of poi video or michal kahns book you will be able to find out what your hand is meant to be doi9ng and then try and see if your doing it, but this is really frustratring!

have you tried practicing with just one hand? i have to learn to do everything one handed first really well.

hope some of this helps, like i say i am very new at this too so fumbling along

clarabel

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