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"Simple, and quite common question among Poi players . . . So can you do THIS move?"
"Hi all,Not sure where to post this, so my apologies if I'm in the wrong forum.So yeah. I started spinning poi in January of this year, and had my first burn in June. Ive been spinning f..."
"I've been sifting through countless Hyperloop threads looking for this particular variation with no luck. I quite possibly read about it but couldn't decipher the technical description...."
"Hello, Im new to poi and havea few questions that confused me on this forum. What are "Beats?" I can do weave forward and backwards. Now, no idea how many beats it is. I would also like..."
"I've been practising tutorials I've found on sites like this for about the past month and a half, and I can basically do all the moves on this sites tutorial up to 22 and the 5BWWell ba..."
"Ok. So I've been spinning quite a while and have known all along that I have completely underused wraps. I have tried several times to use them, but wind up going back to my original ..."
"I am having real problems with this move! and I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips. I know what it is I need to do in my head, but when it comes to doing it my brain says F..."
"Last night i was set a challenge, to learn some one handed poi somewhat similar to meteors my friend just came back from the VW Fest and saw a guy doing what he described a one handed w..."
"you know what cranes are? arashi does i know.can you do them split time???I cant.its anoying because when atom is in the other form its better splitime, and when i transition to the cra..."
"I feel a long one coming on... but I've been quiet lately so I'm due.OK, I went to Uberpoi and saw the worlds most amazing poi spinners yet one of the most fundamental points that I lea..."
"Hey wadup its me again...i was wondering how i could make my own sock poi at home without buying any any suggestions??? "
"Ok... maybe this isn't as impressive as Jo's new trick, but I'll give it a shot. I haven't been able to try this myself (kind of cold outside lately for poi), but I think it should wor..."
"Before i plead for your help i would like to say hi and thanx,,Hi as its my first post but thanx as i have so far found all the info i have needed to get my self spinning,Anyway here g..."
"lo guys. i've just started spinning and have become quite the addict although for the moment i've been stuck on a move (gotta hate it when that happens) for like 3-4 days now with NO im..."
" What does make me to give, without expecting to get? I was asking my self if it is love, love in Poi spinning. :R"
"ok i am new to this forum and have been spinning poi for a little under a month now but am advancing very fast and practicing everyday, i am learning with shoestrings and glowsticks pin..."
"hey me and my friends homecoming football game is coming up and we wanna string at night and we were wondering if there were any certain moves that would amaze? we're using our school c..."
"I had been trying isolations for a couple days but getting nowhere. Then I woke up this morning and for some completely random and unknown reason I decided to try spinning a bath towel...."
"I have an oral assignment due for my french class where i have to talk for about 3 minutes about a club that i belong to. I want to talk about the juggling and Firetwriling club i belon..."
"This is thread that follow the thread,"can you do this move?" about timing.Why are people interested in difficult moves?I ask, because I saw many people start with the most difficult(wh..."
"Ok, im not entirely sure if its right, so someone correct me if need be.I was playing with isolating tangles and tried to isolate an airwrap. I got it down ok, but im not completely sur..."
"me an my mate were messing about trying to turn 180 degrees from a forwards 5 beat to a backwards 5 beat an now i can do a 360degrees turn constantly weaving...if that makes sense...doe..."
"I can do this wierd ass wrap with training poi where I wrap the string around my hands then pull apart to make the poi switch directions... I can do it with my chains when they aren't b..."
"i created it (i think)ages ago, butyou only use one poi, so it is good if your doing fire poi and one goes out,what u do is do the figure of eight in front of you, and when its going do..."
"Heya just wondering if you guys could help me out, im new too the home of poi thing but have been doing poi for about 4 months now...ive managed to master - 4 beat weave ..."
"I cant find an answer to my newbie question.The cobra II poi i own have two loops for your fingers, but im unsure on which way to use them.Do you use them palm up, or palm down?Sorry to..."
"can someone please tell me how too do a simple hyperloop with sox poi.. im at the end of my teather hear!"
"I just need advice on linking moves together. I just started Poi about 2 weeks ago and can do moves like the weave, butterfly, corkscrew, windmill and I can do some reels and carrys. Bu..."
"I’m trying to figure out what and how to do a move.. only problem is I don’t know what it’s called.. and I don’t know quite how to explain it.. hehe.. let me try. I think it’s..."
"I saw an act today that kinda impressed me. It was a rather basic poi act, but of course thats usually what audience oriented acts are... but he added an element I havn't seen in poi ac..."
"I was playing around with tangle buzzsaws today, and I thought I'd try and use my poi as a skipping rope while they were tangling around eachother. Has anyone already done this and g..."
"This was mentioned by Glåss as :When the poi climbs up to 10 oclock tug so it flys acrros to 2 oclock and chops off the top of the circle etc.But I do not understand it. What is it?"
"Okay, Im still a new newbie ^^Are there any perticular moves that you should try to learn BEFORE you try more advanced moves?I can do3 Beat Weave5 Beat Weave3 Beat BTB WeaveButterflyMex..."
"Ok, so - I searched, didn't really find anything that would tweek the problems I'm having with the low turn.I think my issue is swinging my left poi under my right arm -I can't get that..."
"This is really simple to do but I can't remember the name for it. You do a hyperloop but pull your hands apart to that the poi heads lock together and they stop rotating before flicking..."
"hello... i'm not exactly new on here anymore... but all you techy types are confusing me so i thought it might help if we had a glossery-type thread with some basic definitions for all ..."
"okay.. earlier i went to a forest and it was sunnny, and i was playing this game, there were loads of little patches of light and i wanted to watch my shadow spinning... but all the pat..."
"I started doing a strange airwrap thingy that I have no idea of a name for.Basically I wrap the right hand poi round the left hand one on my left hand side and then transfer to the othe..."
"ok so i'm still kinda new at this poi thing so please be gentle with me...i've done the search and found some conflicting advice....please can someone clear this up for me cos at the mo..."
"your arms are outstretched in buzzsaw mode, your left arm weaves a 2beat swing from outside of the arm to the inside while your right weaves from the inside out so you're drawing two 8'..."
"Did a search and it didn't turn up anything.So, I'm trying to learn watermills and failing as I don't really know what i'm actually doing other than a windmill in front of me that goes ..."
"i was told u can do burnoffs wiv poi (fire) by runnin them along the floor, preferably tarmac..is this so? "
"Hi My Name's Dier and this is my first time Posting here, I'm starting more Poi, But I've been spinning with glowsticks for about a year now. And I'm having problems with the Butterlfy ..."
"Just laying back enjoying some music when this idea came to me. Would it be possible to combine fire breathing into a fire poi set? Or am I just been a n00b with a crazy idea?"
"Well, I found something interesting on long arm movesin any time, wheel plane, when both handsdo the biggest circle.Folllow time and butterfly times pass ok,but when it's follow time or..."
"Yo,common then, this sounds a bit like the helix stuff glass was being so elusive about, if its what i think it is (moving the centre of rotation from handle to head through the course ..."
"Heres another nice lil anti-spin maneuver that changes things up a bit and gets you away from the usual circular spinning.First you need to get rather fluent with the regular two beat s..."
"hi guys.. bit of a dilema, cos none of my friens that live nr me spin poi ime at a bit of a loss when it comes 2 learning new moves. was just wondering which is the best book 2 buy 2 le..."
"i've been spinning since febuary 15th last year (the day after I first saw poi first hand) and coming up on the eve of my one year anniversary, i've discovered something odd.i'm instinc..."
"Im eager to get chaseing the sun worked out and Im of course having problems, I admit im still new at the more erm unusual wrist and hand movements that comes with poi but im imprioving..."
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