Forums > Advanced Poi Moves > The Help Me Learn the Barrel Roll Thread

Posted: 13th Nov 2009
ok, these drove me in sane when i learned them, but if you just figured out your hyperloops your already half way there. What might help is to start doing your hyper loops as close to your handles as you can untill they are praticly twisting at your finger tips. then try to let one poi hit your hand do the hyper loop motion with out the poi acctully tangeling. you will notice(hopefully) that the motion is almost exactly the same.

If that doesn't help let me know.
you might also want look at the videos in the inversions section of the learn page if you haven't already. the 3beat weave inversion will show you how to move in and out of the barrel roll and the inverted buzz saw will show you how to stay in one.

hope this helps. it does take alot of working at, so dont give up.

Posted: 13th Nov 2009
If I recall, isolated buzzsaws help as well. You just need to move the centre of isolation from a point between your hands to around your arms.

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