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Location: salisbury wiltshire, United Kingdom
Im kind of new to poi, but basically im looking for a list of thigs/moves. i have looked through the lessons and talks to a few people but was wondering if u lot can help me out.
oka what i can do...
weave
buttefly
btb butterfly
one handed butterfly
thread the needle
big butterfly,
windmill
chase the sun
backwards weave
turning with weave
corkscrew
basic buzz saw
and a few stalls and a arm wrap
i know of one handed weave and 4/5 beat weave but cant get them
trying very hard to get btb weave,
any other moves people can suggest i try?
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: sheffield, United Kingdom
Focus on combining the moves you know, going smoothly from one to the other.
Aspire to perfection on each move, learn to do it slow and with relaxation.
Download some good videos to get new move ideas and see how they work as part of combinations.
Releases are getting popular and add a new aspect to your spinning.
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187 posts
Location: montreal
when u get down to the basics.. itsall about the weave and buttefyl i think, cus its basicly the only combinations of directions u can go, back n back, fwd fwd, fwd n back
so most of it are all variations i'de say and jsut like dave said, once u learn the move, strive for perfection cus u can bust a weave, but a weave isnt a weave if u hit yourself,
and movies are good inspiration, but try not to copy, when i leanred poi i used the free lesson section, stopped there, only recently ahve i starte dwatching video's
and either way, alot of the stuff in the video's i saw was jsut way to advanced for me to understand
wtv jsut keep at it and dont quit like so many lazy ppl do it must be green
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2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom
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Focus on combining the moves you know, going smoothly from one to the other.
Aspire to perfection on each move, learn to do it slow and with relaxation.
Download some good videos to get new move ideas and see how they work as part of combinations.
Releases are getting popular and add a new aspect to your spinning.
ill second that advice...
just make sure you can turn in any direction from any move. practise turning with the butterfly, and buzzsaws.
try and do all the moves you can do in different postions around youre body.
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117 posts
Location: salisbury wiltshire, United Kingdom
thanks everyone. Im getting good at doing the weave around my body turning into backwards weave using double loops to slow down a weave (not sure what there called) not sure how to apply buzzsaws to anything. I love doing poi above my head and ove my stomach as u lean backwards looks kool
any advic on how to use buzz saws...?
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2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom
buzzsaws...
practise going into and out of them from each side backwards and forewards weave.
you can stall (wrap) one poi while doing a buzzsaw and you get a buzzsaw butterfly.
practise going from windmill to buzzsaw, and from buzzsaw to windmill.
do a search for buzzsaw fountain
it is a lovely move.you can do buzzsaws horizontally aswell.
have fun playing. hope ive helped
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They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
187 posts
Location: montreal
lol i still dont get what a buzzsaw is
it must be green
ZORT!
3,045 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
shorten your poi a bit. stick your arms out in front. swing the poi around so it goes between your arms.
if that doesnt help, do a search or pm me and ill explain it better.
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Location: salisbury wiltshire, United Kingdom
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shorten your poi a bit. stick your arms out in front. swing the poi around so it goes between your arms.
if that doesnt help, do a search or pm me and ill explain it better.
Is that the only type of buzzsaw, they are hard to use i find also no idea how to do a side buzzsaw.... anyone?
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2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom
you can do butterfly buzzsaws too... where each poi spins a different direction.
and im not sure what you mean by a side buzzsaw???
Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
183 posts
Location: Edinburgh badger set
Do you mean an inverted weave kind of thing? The one where instead of doing 3bt weave where poi does 1bt on it's own side you make it do 1bt of buzzsaw instead so that neither poi end up on their own side (if you see what I mean
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187 posts
Location: montreal
oh.. so buzzsaw is jsut when i spin the poi inside my arms.. ,lol i've been able to do a buzzsaw for awhile now
it must be green
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
yes, thats all a buzz saw is, now try doing it on a horizontal plane or a diaganal horizonatl plane, and its a lil easier to turn with! :S
ps these threads make me relise i must start paracticing more and more, i have really let it slip atm!
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117 posts
Location: salisbury wiltshire, United Kingdom
ok i can do a buzzsaw but how do u do the other things? does it keep the same type of movement? i also find it hard to use buzzsaws as the look so basic and well any ideas?
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A move I always find a crowd pleaser but is a very easy move.
start doing the btb butterfly and then start bending ur face towards the ground but slowly and the closer you get make the poi go off speed like ur jump roping and the further down you go the more off speed you get. try it out and tell me what you think.
have fun
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137 posts
Location: Hastings, England
Written by: spinnerjohnboy
make the poi go off speed like ur jump roping
What do you mean by 'off speed'?
Am I proving myself an idiot my asking this?
koo x
smells like burning teenagers..
no i worded it weird like have you ever double dutched (jump roping) its like that but you start rotating each poi at a different speed so they go from a butterfly to what lookes like double dutch. if you have any more problems ask me i will check.
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208 posts
Location: Faversham UK
Written by: joulz
jsut keep at it and dont quit like so many lazy ppl do
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2,020 posts
Location: Cornwall, UK
I found last night that when doing the corkscrew (or the windmill, I can never remember which is which - whichever one where the poi both go in the same direction) you can add a buzzsaw spin as you come down in front of your face. You need to tip yer body over so the poi go above one arm and under the other.
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117 posts
Location: salisbury wiltshire, United Kingdom
HEY stupid site wouldent let me on for ages but thankoo to malcome sorting it out,
Just thought i would update everything. Well i learnt a few more tricks,
backwards weave
frwards backwards weave
weird buzzsaw inweave (descrbed above somwhere)
butterfly weave
bacwards thread the needle
many double throws,
lots of butterfly/weave variations
overhead backwards butterfly open 4 beat spin(weird to describe looks amazing)
so yeh i got a few vartations done im looking for some kinda new stuff which will prgress me onto harder stuff, im getting the gist of hyperloops i think kind of but i dunno, gonna meet some people at summer solstice in stonehenge sunday WOHOOW OWOHOO
but i was wondering if anyone has any nice quick moves i can try,
i did try the double dutch move looks kinda funky i use it alot to go in and out of weave/chasing sun/butterfly moves.
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Greetings from tisbury, a ickle village v close to salisbury!
Know of any gatherings around salisbury? I sure as hell dont!
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Location: salisbury wiltshire, United Kingdom
no not many people spin in salisbury i think i know fo about 3 but 2 arnt to advanced and 1 i spoke to once and lost contact
are u going to solstice?
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