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"There are loads of things spinners can do that aren't moves as such, but variations or fills that add interest or help when adding character to your spinning. What sort of things do peo..."
"Hi all,I checked the boards before posting, and I didn't see this move on it. Apologies if I missed it and I am being redundant.Easy, fun move (to be performed only on pavement/asphalt..."
"Has anyone got some proper instructions! i've tried but i end up just burning everything!!!! someone mentioned a cage? but i dont know wat that is! help please? "
"hi.i thought i learnt how to do the 5-beat weave, but what i was actually doing was this crazy little thing whereby on the left side, as my right hand is crossing over, instead of movin..."
"I have not been able to figure out the 5 beat for about 6 months and today it just clicked outta of nowhere! I am so happy i have been waiting to get this one forever and i didn't even ..."
"This may sound dumb but i am confused by what people on here mean by mindgames. is that when there is a glowstick on either end of the string or something else? I think mindgames are re..."
"So a "normal" weave has two points, from what I gather. To make weaves with more points I...3-point: throw a buzzsaw in the center4-point: tuck on each side5-point: tuck on each sid..."
"right i was playing earlier, i was doing butterflys, and i wonderd what it would look like if one poi did two circles in the time it took the other one to do one, ie it moves 2 x as fas..."
"This is something that has been annoying me for ages i can hyperloop pretty much every time in with a forward 3bt weave and reverse but only in one direction (rev: r to l, for: l to r)..."
"hi i tried searching, with no luck, but im sorry if there is a thread out there the same as this i am learning veeeeeeeeery slowly, and having beaucoups difficulties with the weave, im ..."
"OK, you're in club, the music is pumpin', and the glow kids are spinnin' crazy stix, you jump in the circle and do your set... and now what? You can't just hog the circle.... you gotta..."
"ok well i'm not a firespinner to the dismay of many, but i do spin glowsticks...i've been working on carry-overs for quite some time and it would appear that they arent easily pulled of..."
"I was just wondering if anyone can do TTN with more than 4 beats. Seeing as how there are 7+ beat weaves, I figure its possible to do a 6+ beat TTN but Ive never heard anyone speak of ..."
"this is a bit premature but all you new zealanders out there, i wanna know where is the place to go, i am going to move out there for a bit, not until next year though!wheres the best p..."
"I was playing around at work tonight and figured a few things out. I don't know if these have been described before but I didn't have names for them...I think I've seen this one called ..."
"hello! i'm missy, i'm 13 years old and have been doing poi for a long time now. i am an advanced poi artist , and so just to get it squared away i can very easily do the behind the back..."
"Ive been hearing alot about a fountain lately but i dont know exactly what it is. i have searched on this site several times for a clear deffinition or move description but i have yet ..."
"hi guys i went to mots site for extra poi lessons, (very good if i may add, www.firetwirlers.com) and i saw the double windmill being performed. i have had a search here and cant find a..."
"Im a bit stuck on a new move at the mo, a friend tried to show me but its still not working. I can do thread the needle on forward and backwards butterfly and contra-rotating crossover..."
"Do the 3 beat backwards weave. Bring your right hand behind your back, then your left hand, so now you are doing a behing the back weave.got this??Ok. Now bring your left hand to the fr..."
"hi, i'm a new poi twerler, and loving it. even though it has been too cold to practice, i'm having problems with the 5 beat weave, can do the 4 beat but have no clue how to do 5, and..."
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"so.PoiPoiPoi's thread thread got me thinking a bit about hyperloop throws and catches which i've been ignoring since the summer(uk), an i went out for a play to see if a: i could still..."
"haha i've been here for awhile now and i've been spinning for about a year... i can do.. preety much all i can conceivably imagine to do.. or at least i can conceive a way to do it... i..."
"Can anyone tell me how this mythical beast is pulled off? Yes, I believe in the ability to learn moves through words if necessary, but videos are even better. Honestly, any help would b..."
"whats those things that matthew bm and dj dantana can do....!! i wanna learn,they wrap the poi toghter in the weave!?!confused please help me. i would look for other threads, but as i d..."
"Recently I've been practicing some throws and rolls (where you do a wrap but let go as soon as it starts to wrap, resulting in both the poi head and the handle spinning around) and came..."
"hey what do you guys think of astrojacks? i jus saw their commercial and now they glow. doesit seem right to start raving w/ them or does it defile the art of raving? prsonally i think ..."
"In my quest to spewforth every iota of poi knowledge that I obtain with the hope that it will contribute to the collective...I found a new plane that I hadn't played with before. I'm s..."
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"Hello everyone I'm hosting an impromptu Fire Practice tonight, Sunday, December 7th on the vacant lot by Francisco Studios in Downtown Houston, Texas....All are welcome... We will be th..."
"When doing the 5 beat weave, do I need short poi? At the moment they're about as long as my leg and being 6foot1 might cause a problem. I've kept them like this cause they look good for..."
"Lamek's guide to Poi you can do eeet!"
"ok.. I believe offset weaves refer to even beat weaves yeah? well my question is this:are offset weaves (and related moves like the windmill and corkscrew since they are even beat) the..."
"i haf had the practice poi (the tail stylz) for last few months and wanna invest in some of the real fire poi bizzo....but bein quite the n00b i was just wonderin wot the benefits of ch..."
"I've shifted my emphasis to teaching poi lately. It's what I'm good at. I'm sure we've all found that there is a natural progression in learning a new move but haven't seen anyone..."
"What are the biggest wicks that you have ever used? I think that the bigger wicks make for a better visual performance. However I must admit that the larger the flame the more limit..."
"Allo,I haven't been spinning for very long so pardon me if this is a pointless question/post, but I'm just curious.. I've been learning moves, I'm teaching myself so I'm trying to get n..."
" So this afternoon I was playing outside and started experimenting with throwing my poi in the air. It was quite difficult at first but eventually i was able to throw one poi at a ti..."
"ok.. so I'm doing a rev 5 bt weave because I'm practicing throws and catches, and at some point when the poi are on my left side the left poi (I think) manges to hit the top of my left ..."
"Why did i have to learn Poi through chance? Everyone knows what fire eating is, juggleing, even staff, but why dont many people know about poi? "
"ive been twirling/poii for about 4 years now and i dont know the names of even a quarter of half the stuff i do.how would i go about learniing the names of my moves??? i know so many of..."
"Although one of the fundamental moves I could not really find much about it, so heres a thread to talk about the Reel and its variations. Though I am not sure bout the name (I read it s..."
"Ok this is going to be hard to describe.After seeing Shok's 'tekno turtles' and some other fellow hop'ers i have really got into 'avoiding' the flow technique. I used to pride myself on..."
"Hey there everyoneJust wondering might stupid question but how do you transfer from a weave to a butterfly smoothly ."
"heylo! i finally got the reverse behind the back weave down about a week ago, and so i'm doing real good with that, but i'm having serious trouble with trying to do the forward behind t..."
"I've been trying to jump with my poi but at the moment all I can get it a mildly retarded spinning hop. My goal is to come out of a corkscrew into a spin and the jump up into the air ki..."
"hey everyone. im pretty new to poi and can do some basic stuff (weave, 5 beat weave, butterfly and alot of its variations, etc.) but what i am having alot of problems with is the revers..."
"The more independant technical stuff that I learn, the worse my three minute burns are. It seems that I can't cram all the new crap fluidly into a 3 minute burn set. Back when I was j..."
"ok this move is one i just made up one night to transition from backward to forward spinning and im wondering if it has a name or if its just too wierd or has it been coined already her..."
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