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"Hey Guys and Gals, I've had waaaayyy too much time on my hands, and I now have two very good friends. They don't talk much but do make a fantastic noise when I swing em around!!!Anyways..."
"I called this the 3-sided weave when I figured it out, but then saw that someone had already called it the waist wrap. Whichever, right?This move feels great to do fast or slow, is a h..."
"Hi there before i get started i would just like to say Home Of Poi *&^%ing top site thanks.Just had my first go on some firechains and i #$^%ing love it started doing poi about 3 mo..."
"weehoo! after much bashing of head i've got a good forward somersault goin on. there's atleast 2 ways of going about this, well three if you count failing. #1 just like sages somersault..."
"i can't figure out how to do neck wraps with out smacking myself in the face. can anyone please explain to me how to do it. i want to be able to do neck wraps and also doing a 360 and n..."
"How do you do it??thxnomad"
"Ok, so I'm trying to get some BTB moves going. It looks like I'll eventually be able to get a butterfly down, but I'm running into problems with the weaves.I've started just trying to ..."
"i figured out how to do itfirst you start out with a small butterfly infront of you and then hit 1 on your leg (right side) then you have a smal chase in front of you pull your right ar..."
"My latest move, I name: Nail-Myself-In-The-GroinI figure the glowstick ends up hitting me there enough, that I ought to call it a "move." Ouch! I guess I just need to pay attention ..."
"&lbr;Edit: just found a great discussion of this that wasn't on my search:http://www.homeofpoi.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=000667i trimmed this post down a bit. =) &rb..."
"i can do most of the poi moves,but i can't do the chasing the sun move.something about it won't click in my head.and also backwards weave?anyone got any advice please? "
"My friend and I took one poi each and started to spin them. We then proceeded to slowly move 2gether and put the 2 poi 2gether into the butterfly. This move actually looks neat, as it i..."
"Ok This may be quite hard to explain but I will try.This works best with socks. First you wrap the poi around your neck one poi wrapping once clockwise around your neck and the other an..."
"This is a really simple move but must only be done while waring heavy duty trousers!!!while spinning the poi either forwards or backwards next to the body spread your legs apart with a ..."
"I started this by swinging my right poi foward, left poi backwards...attempted figure-8, after some practice --- got it!!attempted weave, after much practice --- Got it!!!attempted 4-b..."
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"I having problems with the one-handed corkscrew...they don't seam to b 180 apart from each other..thier more like 100 or somthing. I've alrdy read all the lesons on 5 beat weaves..but ..."
"Okay, I think what I just did was a behind the back butterfly but i'm not sure...I start out doing a forward butterfly in same-time, then I kinda raised it up over and behind my head th..."
"Anyone who have suggestion to a build-up of a show? Sort of like when the Dj is planning his set. Let's say have 8 minutes to use. Nice with feedback. From Newbie "
"ello all...well ive got the tricks on the Poi Lessons site down pat, (well to be honest still working on those damn btb moves.....), plus the fountain i think its called..i can tie em a..."
"has anyone here gotten the 1handed windmill? Also I can get the 1 handed corkscrew, but I can't get the normal Corkscrew. Any suggestions as to how I can get the corkscrew"
"ok if u know how to do the gosh darn 5/4 beat weave(chase) this this move is child's play.......usually i start this move out by doing the 5 beat weave and when my wrists cross, i bring..."
"hello people.i can do the corckscew, but for some reson i cant do the windmill. i tryed to follow the video on the site but i couldnt understand how to do it. could someone help me out?..."
"finally they arived....started practising at once but it started raining (so much for trying for open space but i am sure the apple tree appreciated is at least it got to keep some blos..."
"I 've done poi maybe four or five time, and the first few were great, I used lamp oil and got a long burn time. But recently I've tried kero and one of my wicks goes out while I'm spin..."
"Ok, I am meeting some folks (hopefully!) to spin on the beach tomorrow night. Wonderful? Yes. Here's the problem:I have never spun on anything that wasn't a firm, flat surface. The ..."
"ok, I just started working on BTL stuff, and I'm having some difficulty. I can bring the poi between my legs, but when I go to come out of it, I always wrap the poi on one of my legs. i..."
"but what about stalls? I mean, wrap the poi, but get them to stall at the end of the wrap. then get them going again and unwrap. has anybody done this? do you even think its worthwhile ..."
"I spent a considerable time on Koh Phangan in Thailand and played poi with the locals. One of their moves is to use about a foot of chain and, in front of the body spin them vertically ..."
"I was outside playing with my glowsticks, as usual and I started doing the 5 beat weave, then I decided to try it over my head windmill style. Well after sevearly battering my left sid..."
"I know what wraps are, and how to do them..like, around the forearms and legs...but do many people actually do wraps around the poi hand? For instance, how lifeguards spin they're whis..."
"This one's going to be tough to explain but I'm having fun with it so I thought I'd share.With fire sometimes it looks cool to do a 4 beat weave with the poi intime (not split time). T..."
"I was working on a btb weave - corkscrew transition last night. I had it going quite smoothly, to the point where I didn't actually have to think about what I was doing. Then I realised..."
"this move is super cool if only i could do it with my fingers, but i have to wrap it around my wrists. of course 7Beats is pretty ace when you get there too, a little more difficult in ..."
"so after hurting myself several times, i have decided to ask for some help (again). but this time ill be more specific, and hopfully i'll figure it out:when i try to do the windmill, i ..."
"Hi I did a search but I didn't find much ... soo was just wondering whether many people have played around with 2 sets of poi at once. What different moves they have pulled off and ho..."
"Does anyone out there know which of the poi moves are used in Tahitian dancing? I did a search here and through the internet and found nothing I just really want to know cause I ..."
"lately I've been looking for more stuff to do with a butterfly, and have had alot of trouble coming up with things to do. any moves you can inform me of would be greatly appreciated."
"cAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW 2 START A BTB WEAVE/CHASE.. I'VE BEEN TRYIN' FOR THE PAST COUPLE DAYS AND NO SUCCESESS.....HELP CALL 911..J/K"
"whats some of your favorite types of music or song for spinning poi??"
"would it be possible to break a weave up so you had one beat btb, one on the side, and one overhead? has anyone ever done it? does it look good? I'm asking cause i'm still working on br..."
"First, excuse my bad english. I'm playing poi two or three months ago, and I've seen people who holds two poi's with only one hand, doing a lot of tricks really incredible. (throwing it..."
"Well...this is going to be my first time with lit poi ever. Do you have any suggestions? Should I cover my face? Wear a hat? Not do any specific moves? I'd really appriciate help t..."
"ok, ive seen the term "butterfly weave" drift around these forums, and ive always taken it to mean an alternate side to side butterfly transfer, but...could one actually do a weave with..."
"Now I know that fire poi and glowstick poi are closly related but there are just a few differences. I would like to see some glowstick lessons due to the fact that those few difference..."
"I had to post this on it's own because i am really happy to have learned all of this.I got side to side BF transfers last night! WOOHOO! I can do regular ones where it kind of looks l..."
"there only seems to be 2 threads atached to this subject??!! has any one mastered it and could they give me a few pointesr to do it, I've got them switching from right to keft with the ..."
"Here's a fun one I just figured out. When doing a 5-beat weave, on the intermediate rotation (I know, that's a lousy description--I mean the one before your wrists twist around each oth..."
"hey lovely spinning peeps, i just wanted to ask if there are anyother left handed ppl out there having trouble. im finding the reverse weave a bitch-arss move to do, so i kept avoiding ..."
"This move is driving me crazy, and I'm not entirely sure why..I have the figure eight down... and so now I'm starting to try the Weave...I bring my right poi over my left arm on the lef..."
"has any one got a funky way of coming out of a 360 weave? I've been working on coming out to a corkscrew but it's still very messy,Could extra beats be added in to a 360 weave??? lets h..."
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