Forums > Social Chat > OLD HOP HEADS V.S NEW HOP HEADS
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Location: Oceanside, California, USA
this is where the old heads come to laugh about the move/moves they had trouble with as a newbie. just thought the subject was perfect remember the FIRE VS glowsticks threads. LMAO... anyway, I remember bashing the shyt out of my shins and my head with a BTB weave. I remember only being able to do the butterfly for a few beats, I remember thinking WHAT DO YOU MEAN IM ONLY DOING A 4 BEAT WINDMILL, WHY IS IT ONLY 4 BEATS WHEN IM DOING THE EXSACT SAME THING I DO WHEN I DO A 5 BEAT WEAVE. lol ahhh the memories. Im constantly refering people to this site, perfect for poi. well anyway its been nice remembering the past...anyone else got anyhting to add?
-Myst
All you new heads got it easy, i remember when a BTB 5 beat was unheard of, now that most of us can do it, all the old heads learn it alot quicker without the mind barrior.
now advice for a newbie section:
dont try to learn all the technical moves before you learn the basics, cause lets face it, you aint getting any respect if all you can do is a 5 beat weave and you cant even imagine doing a simple butterfly. thats all i gotta say
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Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Oh - found the link:
https://groups.msn.com/PoiStaffandallthingsfirey/homeofpoimugshotgallery.msnw
All well and good, you'll need a hotmail account or MSN passport but that's it - well, apart from a photo of yourself.
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Sporadically Prodigal
2,758 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
bump. Feeling tres nostalgic.
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Sporadically Prodigal
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Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
FYI - the link to Cass's pics doesn't seem relevant any more. Only has (what seems to me to be) pics of a gay couple travelling in Italy.
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Tantamount to fatuity
15,966 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Why are you feeling nostalgic?
You approaching a birfday or sunfink?
Meh
Tantamount to fatuity
15,966 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
I remember when they introduced the rule that you had to be registered to post and the only person to complain about it was the guy that had trolled the boards enough to cause it
HAven't heard from him in ages. I still have his email addy. Maybe i should drop him a line....
Meh
ARRRR!
529 posts
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
Haha, time to break out the walking canes and ear hair trimmers for the old skool HoPers.
Just kidding, I only wish I knew about poi back then. All those years I wasted.
"My skin is singed but it heals my heart and with glowing pride I'll wear my scars." -Davey Havok
Star Trekker
1,733 posts
Location: Cheshire, United Kingdom
what a lovely thread! as an almost newbie - i can't believe how many have registered since i did a few months back! - but a definite oldie I totally sympathise with you mtbeer.
But then the buzz i got from just picking up poi for the first time, liking it, learning more, first burn
, being part of the amazing HoP community both virtual and in the flesh is just a kick-start for the rest of my life. I'm glad I came to it late cos I'd probably have moved on by now if I was younger and reading this thread gives me hope that the BTB weave isn't beyond me if these guys struggled with it not so very long ago. And you old skoolers are so right - get the basics right first - I still find it easier to do a 5beat than a butterfly!
loadsa love to the post-teens
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old hand
768 posts
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
really nice reading this thread. i've poked around in the old poi moves threads too and it's hard to believe there was a time not that long ago when people wondered if btb or 5 bt weaves were possible! That just blows my mind. That's one of the things I'm loving about the spinning world, this sense that we're all creating something new together...
spin on beautiful peeps...
taken out of context i must seem so strange
~ ani di franco
still can't believe it's not butter
6,978 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
what's a weave? (bump)
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Clique Infiltrator, Cunning Linguist and Master Debator
4,219 posts
Location: Edinburgh burgh burrrrrr, United Kingdom
It's like being on an archaelogical dig, reading this old thread! Wow, Fossils!
Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
we newbies have discovered new tricks also. we now have poiggling (bows to devkev) and many other fancy jobbies. fresh blood fresh ideas (and fresh burns and bruises) Wow. old or what.
well done bender this is a great thread to dig up a great way to bring old and new together
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
4,308 posts
Location: York, England
Wow, I saw this and I was like... myst... man i havn't seen that kid in ages, three years now i think... whenever dom came to america....
Crazy times.
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big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
Written by: Mynci
we newbies have discovered new tricks also. we now have poiggling (bows to devkev)
but devkev is oldskool to the bone
*makes a cliched passing reference to a detours quote about inventing sh!t and runs off*
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
AT play I heard DEVKEV being referred to as "the responsible sensible looking one who can do everything"
I'm neither old skool or nu skool.....I must be in middle skool or something!
Let's relight this forum 
old hand
1,032 posts
Location: Madrid, United Kingdom
group hug everyone
(I remember when there was no group hug smiley and you had to just do this one lots of times 
... great thread.. well bumped.. but oldskool newbies
blah blah blah. Viva Home of Poi and its old and new members alike. 
love you all 
and I love the MSN groups mug shots - some of us look SO YOUNG (bovril, me.. and little fluffy napalm fairy.. the picture of innocence)
"I don't take drugs. I am drugs" - Salvador Dali 
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
I know Devkev is old skool. but I learned to poiggle before I knew Hop existed. i was just bowing down to him as he's bl00dy good at it. but I think i have stuff he doesn't ...yet. just pointing out class when I see it. and stating newbies don't just learn. they can have a fresh outlook on the whole scene because they havn't found stuff that can't be done...so they try!!
I also have a sloppy Stafapoiggle (poiggling with a staff - see gallery) which i have never seen done...needs work but recon there are lots of disciplines which can be done at the same time without it getting too messy
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
combination tricks do indeed rock
sounds to me like you need a rolabola or a unicycle mynci
kev is like the francis brunn of poi - he just needs a pair of tighter trousers and he's there
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,384 posts
Location: mancunian, United Kingdom
Written by: Kyrian
Once a newbie, always a nebwbie *grin*
I remeber when i was shocked to see we were hitting 3000 members... it's nearing five now isn't it?
theres 23083 total members now Disclaimer:im not responsible for what i say or do whether it be before,during and after drinking alcoholic substances (owned by BMVC).
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Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK
*wonders vaguly how many posting members there are hmmmm*
im off to try and do some foot poi
i will be doing foutains by play2
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Tantamount to fatuity
15,966 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Devkev is fairly nu skool. When i first met him a few years ago at glastonbury he didn't even really know what HoP was. He only joined last year sometime.
Meh
the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
Dave in Texas poiggled years ago. He is also the one, as far as I know, who was the first to get a pair of power skips when they were new and poi on those too.
I wonder what happened to him.
So, two years ago I was called Mother Nature in this thread. Makes me wonder who I am now!
And holy crap...how fast HoP grew if there were only 5 thousand regged in 2003!
I'm kinda impressed to see how many old skoolers are still bumping about. This did make me giggle.
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
well everyones old skool compared to me. only been juggling a year. and that only about once a week
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
chemical attraction
1,097 posts
Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
am i classed as old or new lol!
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK
im definatly new skool and proud of it
more to learn that way
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I wear yellow on monday
551 posts
Location: Farnham Ahoy, United Kingdom
too true, theres always something new.
*remembers when learning the weave was impossible*
think im middle aged (3years is quite a long time), but newbie here!!
You'll find me on the dance floor
veteran
1,228 posts
Location: on the wrong planet, United Kingdom
I'd say I'm an old skool spinner while being HoP new skool.
Been spinning weaves for 6 years, and now I've got into poi again I'm happy spinning circles
I've got a new group hug smiley
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HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
I sometimes feel older than i am on this place, I know ive only been here since august but everytime i meet ppl, they seem to be like hey YOUR pyrowill, its a bit odd, and likewise they find it odd i cant 5 beat weave, like they expected me to be really at poi or something
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
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the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
Written by: PyroWill
I sometimes feel older than i am on this place, I know ive only been here since august but everytime i meet ppl, they seem to be like hey YOUR pyrowill, its a bit odd, and likewise they find it odd i cant 5 beat weave, like they expected me to be really at poi or something
LOL....*nods head in agreement*
I've had some scary moments meeting people from here actually. Not because they were nasty but because they were too enthusiastic that I'm me. It was surreal.
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK
but pele you are a goddess among Hoppers
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Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
To be honest, ive nevr considered myself a skooler
Im me, and I spin.... badly. Thats it
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