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newbie
24 posts
Location: Sweden
newbie
24 posts
Location: Sweden
Posted:
It says that the windmill almost as a corkscrew which I cant see in my point of view. Anyway what I do is that I do a butterfly, once Im in a buttefly I start to put one hand in the back of my head and when that hand is coming back in front of me I put the 2nd hand back and then the other and so on. When I looked at the animations and the videos I was thinking that the windmill looks like the low wave but just higher up, so that is what I tried while i was in the butterfly position. I whish I could make a video cause this is so hard to explain
. I hope you understand, when I first did that behind thing in the butterfly position I was trying to learn the alternative butterfly combination, https://www.homeofpoi.com/lessons/poi_lessons.php/poi/23......
Hopefully Im close to the butterfly move
.....
//Wai
It says that the windmill almost as a corkscrew which I cant see in my point of view. Anyway what I do is that I do a butterfly, once Im in a buttefly I start to put one hand in the back of my head and when that hand is coming back in front of me I put the 2nd hand back and then the other and so on. When I looked at the animations and the videos I was thinking that the windmill looks like the low wave but just higher up, so that is what I tried while i was in the butterfly position. I whish I could make a video cause this is so hard to explain
. I hope you understand, when I first did that behind thing in the butterfly position I was trying to learn the alternative butterfly combination, https://www.homeofpoi.com/lessons/poi_lessons.php/poi/23......Hopefully Im close to the butterfly move
.....//Wai
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1,376 posts
Location: London, UK
1,376 posts
Location: London, UK
Posted:
The windmill is almost exactly the low wave done at your shoulder level rather than hip level
And yes, the alternate butterfly is just like the windmill execpt the poi are going in opposite directions rather than the same direction...
The windmill is almost exactly the low wave done at your shoulder level rather than hip level
And yes, the alternate butterfly is just like the windmill execpt the poi are going in opposite directions rather than the same direction...
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That guy from Reno
556 posts
Location: Reno, Nevada USA
That guy from Reno
556 posts
Location: Reno, Nevada USA
Posted:
Wai, I think your doing the Mexican Wave, easily confuesd with the windmill, but not a chase.
Wai, I think your doing the Mexican Wave, easily confuesd with the windmill, but not a chase.
Cody Canon
Controlled Burn, Reno Nevada
member
22 posts
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
22 posts
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posted:
Yeah, your poi should be going in the same direction.
Tip: If you're spinning clockwise (from your perspective), then your left hand goes back first. Otherwise it's your right.
Other tip: Learn same-direction shoulder reels first (I think they call it "chasing the sun" in the lessons here), then split the timing.
Final tip: Make sure you know how to spin in split time (I learned the weave before learning the windmill).
Yeah, your poi should be going in the same direction.
Tip: If you're spinning clockwise (from your perspective), then your left hand goes back first. Otherwise it's your right.
Other tip: Learn same-direction shoulder reels first (I think they call it "chasing the sun" in the lessons here), then split the timing.
Final tip: Make sure you know how to spin in split time (I learned the weave before learning the windmill).
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Pooh-Bah
2,110 posts
Location: Philadelphia, PA - USA
Pooh-Bah
2,110 posts
Location: Philadelphia, PA - USA
Posted:
Yes, the windmill IS exactly the same as the corkscrew but its vertical instead of horizontal. What youre doing is the high wave (or mexican wave in the HoP lessons).
Yes, the windmill IS exactly the same as the corkscrew but its vertical instead of horizontal. What youre doing is the high wave (or mexican wave in the HoP lessons).
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newbie
24 posts
Location: Sweden
newbie
24 posts
Location: Sweden
Posted:
Okey, so basically what Im doing is almos the windmill but opposite direction so it becomes a mexican wave ? Funny isnt it
....I know how to do the corkscrew and chasing the sun but I got a real problem to know how to do that spin behind your back in the same direction. But thx for letting me know it was same direction at first I though it was opposite direction. So basically more practise and hard work for me then.....
Also have anyone any experience in the one hand cork screw ? The hand move isnt the problem since it is the same as the corkscrew but I have had a hard time to get them not twirling into each other and also I notice that you pois easily go off your fingers. Do you guys use any attachments or something when ya do that move ?
//Wai
EDITED_BY: Wai (1096837347)
Okey, so basically what Im doing is almos the windmill but opposite direction so it becomes a mexican wave ? Funny isnt it
....I know how to do the corkscrew and chasing the sun but I got a real problem to know how to do that spin behind your back in the same direction. But thx for letting me know it was same direction at first I though it was opposite direction. So basically more practise and hard work for me then..... Also have anyone any experience in the one hand cork screw ? The hand move isnt the problem since it is the same as the corkscrew but I have had a hard time to get them not twirling into each other and also I notice that you pois easily go off your fingers. Do you guys use any attachments or something when ya do that move ?
//Wai
EDITED_BY: Wai (1096837347)
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1,803 posts
Location: Wonderland igloo, Vic, Australia
1,803 posts
Location: Wonderland igloo, Vic, Australia
Posted:
Windmill is really easy and really fun!!!...i cant get mexican wave whatever i do and the amount of times ive nearly broken my nose trying to do so is...*sigh*
Windmill is really easy and really fun!!!...i cant get mexican wave whatever i do and the amount of times ive nearly broken my nose trying to do so is...*sigh*
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Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Posted:
I thought the windmill was the weave that goes overhead BTB... is that an... overhead weave, maybe?
I mean the one you get if you do a weave with one plane in front and one behind at the shoulder
I thought the windmill was the weave that goes overhead BTB... is that an... overhead weave, maybe?
I mean the one you get if you do a weave with one plane in front and one behind at the shoulder
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newbie
24 posts
Location: Sweden
newbie
24 posts
Location: Sweden
Posted:
YES!! I finally got it! It is so easy now....what I did was going from chasing the sun to windmill and it worked out well ........thx for all the tips dudes.
//Wai
YES!! I finally got it! It is so easy now
....what I did was going from chasing the sun to windmill and it worked out well ........thx for all the tips dudes. //Wai
newbie
20 posts
Location: Scotland, Thornhill/Stirling
20 posts
Location: Scotland, Thornhill/Stirling
Posted:
ah, thank you... I never though that the poi go in the same direction *run to try*
edit: hmm... the poi should run behind my back all the time, shouldn`t they? So, its not a kind of a wave, one cirle in front of me and one behind, isn`t it?
So, then I do something wrong...
How could I leave them behind me? *confused*
EDITED_BY: Trine (1097922590)
ah, thank you... I never though that the poi go in the same direction *run to try*
edit: hmm... the poi should run behind my back all the time, shouldn`t they? So, its not a kind of a wave, one cirle in front of me and one behind, isn`t it?
So, then I do something wrong...
How could I leave them behind me? *confused*
EDITED_BY: Trine (1097922590)
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