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"lol i know all u guys had that "one move" that was a bitch to learn....haha i think 1 hand butterfly is hard to learn and perfect cuz the glowsticks be hittin each other and they smack ..."
"its very odd to explain and since i already tried here is what i posted in the new move topicWritten by: asakura(other stuff first then here's the description) but what i'm trying to do..."
"Ok...im kinda new to poi twirling (though I can pretty much do everything in the HOP lessons except the Behind Back weave) and ive been looking at different threads and tring to underst..."
"Past few weeks Ive been playing with waist wraps where the arm on the side youre spinning on does its beats over the shoulder. I was wondering, though, what, if any, is the name for su..."
" : I never have come to this sight before but i have been doing fire poiand glow stick poi off and on for the last 4 yrs.I just found out how to do the one handed butterfly and I am wil..."
"What do you think about this???9B at the right 7B at the left "
"ive been trying to learn a move....like thread the needle except with the poi going the other way.....anyone got any tips?"
"i've been catching my fire poi now for a while, i pull then from in front of me catch them (whilst lit) and throw them out ion front of me, if you get a good photographer it looks like ..."
"I have a number of moves down (with fire!!!!!) but I need help in making my transitions from fluid? Any advice?I also really want to learn daisies!FELIX"
"A wanted unwanted effect A force is twisting the chain when the Poi is changing its plane or accelerating/stopping. Swivels are used in order to take off exactly this effect. If you don..."
"hello out there , just got into fire poi and got enough moves down so i can perform at art walks where i live. but what i really want to learn how to build is the set up for some sparkl..."
"I was messing around with my poi today when I thought of something but can't for the life of me think of a name for it. Its basically a Butterfly where every second rotation you move yo..."
" Well, I'd like to explain how to get from Butterfly to Weave and vice versa. This is basic spinnig problem, becase Poi keep it's dirrection. It meen, when you start spinnig both Poi ..."
"how about to help us newbies spin better, an adept spinner could choreograph something nice and simple for us to follow that will also improve technique?whatch think? any adepts willing..."
"Ok, this is going to sound really rubbish and sucky but does anyone have any tips for begginers like me? Cause i'm really not very good..."
"Okay, I'm still a beginner and I can only make some moves.. How do I go from one move to another move in a flow? I have to stop and start over when I want to change....Except when I go ..."
"The other day while playing with buzzsaws I found that you can turn a buzzsaw 360 without transitioning to the opposite direction. If youve ever seen one of those crazy AA Yo-Yo videos..."
"i was just wondering how long it took people to get to a point where they say...yeah i think i got it now...i don't mean with really complex moves and stuff but is there a point when it..."
"hellooooooooooo all you poi people out there ummm...........ok..........so i was wondering is this move possible. im guessing it is..........i think. i know in fronts possible and btb i..."
"Continuing something from ICoN's Double Crossers Thread...What do people call waist wraps? My definition of one is a fair bit different to ICoN's...Written by: ICoNA waist wrap is when..."
"has any one try'd spining whilst on stilts its somthing that ive been entertaing the idea of for some time now and think it would look great even more so with fire so was just wondering..."
"Ivè bin searching around for someon tha can explain how do do a one handed butterfly neckwrap. I can do it from the front of the to the back but not the otherway around. I can do do if..."
"I'm having an issue. I've been trying to master a flip or a roll while spinning with poi. I can't quite get the logistics of it down. I think a flip would work better than a roll. If an..."
"Just looking around for a set of fire poi and there are what appears to be a blithering amount of different types. just curious which kinds you guys all use and which you'd recommend, a..."
"So it seems people have been getting into some crosser action as of late and Im no exception. However, just recently I started learning, what Ive come to call, double crossers. The si..."
"Hi all I have been looking through the HoP forum for several days but have been unable to find a meaningful explanation for extended lock-out sequences. I first saw them in some of the..."
"My butterfly is sick, I think... What I am trying to do is to just to flip it once behind my head and then go back to spinning in front of me again. Backwards, sort of. It works brilli..."
"what do you do when your spinning, plan your moves or spontaneously twirl?"
"before any of you tell me to research this, i have done and still i cant pull it off. At the moment im wrapping my arms around each other (right arm under and over left on the right si..."
"I've been playing about with this move recenly but I'm not quite sure what it is or weather it's got a proper name basically the story starts in at poi in the park in sheffield where s..."
"Any set that i do lives and dies by the butterfly..o i am dedicating this thread to the BFly and its variations and combos...i combo in and out of them so much, i dont think i ever just..."
"I just don't get the backwards weave. I can do the regular one perfectly but I have some retarded brain block when it comes to doing it backwards. Does anyone have any helpful tips?fire..."
"what and how do you do a buzzsaw?"
"how long do you practice for, or has it ever occured to you to count? "
"I want hear about any acrobatic moves you combine with twirling and any moves you can do with 2 or more twirlers.I can lay on the ground or back bend a little while doing "burn the nose..."
"i'm not finding any instruction on how to do the mexican weave on the hop poi lessons... anyone? and are there videos i can see of it?"
"Let's all decide to name combinations and confuse everyonehere are my favorites:1) one beat butterfly on each side btb = the phunky chicken2) weave to weave btl to weave = the phunky..."
"OK i thought i had cracked the 5bt, but i jsut watched a video...and i havent, but i have no idea what the hell i am doing so ill try and describe it,basically it is a weird weave that ..."
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"Good day,Ive been spinning for about 6months and i can now do everythin on the poi lessons plus more, i.e, buzzsaw, flowers and some of my own combinations. But now i feel kind of stuck..."
"I'm relatively new at this. I started off learnin the weave, I can almost do the wave and other tricks like that but I have problems with my left hand. Pretty much all I can do is "Weav..."
"I've been poi:ing (?) for almost two weeks now and I've learned alot. It's really fun and cool, and I really think that it's time for me to order some real poi so I get used to somethin..."
"Throwing is nice. But my problem with throwing is that it somehow "breaks the flow". You have to concentrate and look for the Poi in order to catch. Especially in the dark this can beco..."
"Buttterfly hyperloop, jump over them and untangle into a same time Butterfly WWW. Can you see it in your head DAMN!!!!I cant even belive this is possible, running outside to learn it ri..."
"ok i was practising tangles (if ive got it right, tangle = both poi spin in a circle in front in the same direction and split time, cross over, tangle and then somehhow untangle again a..."
"i was wondering if anyone could give me a tip for a good transition to go into flowers and out... since i only know a weave transition but looks kind of funny and unaesthetic. than..."
"bin poing for a few weeks can do 3 and 5 beat but im having trouble with the 7 beat any suggestions? ta"
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