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"Hey i have just started poi and i was massing around from like swaping one poi 2 the other hand and then swinging it so it looks like ur swinging a staff and then wraping it under ur le..."
" hey everybody , i am a new member and i think it is hardly posible to read all of this material (at least for me...) of course there is a lot of usefull information here and some names..."
"Just wanted to promote those beauties...They are definitely possible, not pointless and even outsiders can spot the difference - but they require some practiceBHB Onehanded weave/ Wais..."
"sorry about the thread title. i couldn't think of a good name for the move.so. here it is:airwrap, catch one end, spin the free end around your left side, then release and catch the oth..."
"So, I realized last night that there are very few moves that create beats. The only ones I can really think of are weaves, TTN, and tangles. This got me thinking... Are weaves just ex..."
"I've posted this othe places and people have reallyliked it.. so I guess I'll post it here for whomever might find it interesting... no promises on grammar... Wraps are a wonderful wa..."
"I was looking at some videos and the HOP lessons section and discovered that most parallel weaves are not done clean. First I was confronted with this fact when a friend of mine told me..."
"For anyone who's interested,|s| is now fully functional| |"
"Kay so I was just messing around and (yes this should probably be in the tangles thread but it's so cool I thought it should have a thread of it's own)Now I don't know how this works so..."
"Any tips? I got a method of doing the opposite (butterfly into forwards weave), but it's really tight and I severly doubt i could use the same method in reverse.As all my moves are eith..."
"right. i dont understand this so describing what happens will be hard. but id like to understand...what happens is i go to do a buzzsaw hyperloop (going forewards, transitioning from ri..."
"Ok, I have been trying to find an easier way to go into the btb weave and the only one I really have is like half of a low turn into a btb weave. it looks good when i can get it, but I ..."
"OK so first an apology to the admin guys. Sorry but I searched numerous times for the original thread and couldn't find it.Next. Just thought that you should all know that throwing you..."
"Someone mailed me this, so you've probably all seen it anyway. I'm trying to perfect it for the video competition.Instructions for a quintrouple double back flip cross over with a back..."
"I know the Subject sounds oxymoronic but I was wondering if anyone else has ever played around with this. I started by doing a one-handed butterfly and choking up the chain one hand at ..."
"Hi there,I don't post much in the move section cause it usually is too technical for me to understand the level of language. But... eeeer, dunno where to begin and how exactly I should ..."
"whats everyones fav trick to do with poi at the moment then....mines probably messing round with hyperloops and stops/stalls at the mo"
"help!!!i just learnt behind the back weave today with the poi spinning in backwards.how do i do the behind the back weave forwards? i just keep hitting the top of my back or shoulders!!..."
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"i know what the arachnid thing is but i was reading arashi's post (can't remember the thread name) and i read this you can take a bfly or a spider and invert them, What is a spider???T..."
"So I think I found a way to create an isolation type effect on long arm circles. Im talking just long arm circles at your side in split time same direction for now (as its the only way..."
"I am currently trying to learn how to do this move, but I seem to be unable, as of yet. I have the backward one, and I was convinced that if I just turned at the right moment, I'd just..."
"Simple in theory, difficult in practice. Definition: One handed moves that have more than one plane.There are as many possibilities as there are planes.One version can be seen in OneWhe..."
"Hullo. I don´t know if Kev is on HoP, but if Simian or any other spits crew is reading this, could you ask Kev, on behalf of Ivan and Alice, for steps 1 to 7 of his incredible poi &..."
"Yesterday I learned a move, but nobody could tell me the (im)proper name.Starting from a butterfly, you turn your elbows outwards as you would when doing a pass behind your back, but th..."
"Alright After a good bit of time and effort I have finnaly pieced together a full set of free video tutorials, of what I see to be some of the next steps after one has mastered the poi..."
"ello,ok, you know in buzzsaw you hands make little circling motions in the direction of the spin?well, do them backwards and make them a bit bigger, so in a forwrads buzzsaw your hands ..."
"yo,this came out of the anti-spun buzzsaw discussion.the idea is that you can still anti-spin even if you are only doing one circle perarm circle.the mecanics.poi going counter clockwis..."
"Basic Theory: Take a Poi and "tuck" it under you armpit /or under your knee /or between the legs :P ... and do one or more full circles. The center of rotation is no loger the handle bu..."
"ok so we were having a discussion the other day about progression from 5 beat weave.What is the highest number performed? is there any such possibility in the 9beat?"
"what is the difference between weaves and waves.or are they the same???"
"I was wondering what moves feel the best for all of you to do. It seems with me some moves just feel "right". For me that move is the quadruple corkscrew with turns. I love turning it t..."
"The way I have not seen before, mimmicks the hand positioning of the reverse 3 bt, however the poi go forwards. On the left, my right hand goes over my left, the poi swing under under ..."
"OK - in my quest to learn some new stuff i've tried to do TTN and a waist wrap.I've followed the instructions in my book to do a hip mill on the left side but i can't work out how to ge..."
"Simian just mentioned these in a thread I posted and I didn't want to go off topic. I've seen them in vids but for the life of me cannot figure out exactly what i should be doing to kee..."
"Well, I'd like if someone who know new Poi terminology for moves better than me describe a bit the new one like:Anti-spinningTrinityAtomsHelixMatrixBoxCarriesIn-betweensOffset weavesFlo..."
"i cant do it that neatly yet. any else that can do it?"
"I need some pointers on the reverse 5 beat weave...ive been trying for a while but i cant get it. "
"Yup, I'm a newbie, but I can only do the windmill for a ffew beats before it ends up in alternate butterfly. I always go into the windmill from chase the sun - is that wise? I just need..."
"Hasnt been mentioned before so . . .For clarification:Airwrap definition - The one I am talking about is the Hyperloop variation where the Poi stay on the same side of the b..."
"hi my names Asa and i was wondering if anybody has any tips for doing the 5 beat weave? i have masterd the 3 beat but cannot do the 5 beat can anybody help? thanksAsa"
"Reverse weave and when your right hand is over your left hand, you hook the string right in the middle with your thumb and teh poi speeds up and folows a circle about half as small as o..."
"I was just messing around yesterday and ya know how when you do a regular forward 5 bt weave and your wrists touch, your arms make a hole between your arms and body as you cross fromrig..."
"hey , i just wanna know if wraping is possible with every moves.I guess so, but technicaly im not able to do it yet so plz tell me"
"I'm new to this site, but I was looking through the new moves forum and I saw a lot of different people getting the same moves. I just thought I could add a little creativity here. I us..."
"well as it says really... just wonderin what different ways ppl hold the poi...??okey just to explain where i'm coming from a little.. i know loadsa ppl use double or single looped hand..."
"Try this and tell me if you have seen it before.Just as things are going smoothly try speeding up, twist your head quickly to the left to duck the poi, bring your left wrist round too s..."
"how do you do the anarchy with poi?????????/ "
"i dont know if anything's been posted on this site before and i dont like the search thingso how the bloody hell am i supposed to do this sort of thing i can get like 3 or 4 going inbet..."
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