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"alright im seeming to be missing this concept. lets start on a 2 beat . I always use my right hand to be the lead hand, does it mean use my left hand to be the lead? or is it that i ..."
"well, thanx for all of u who helped me and told me how to turn 180. im pracicing it right now. but also, i would like to know how do u turn 180 while doing fwd weave ONLY! i mean jus..."
"Any one ever attempt a fire spin on rollerskates?Let me know how it went if you did. I'm trying to steady myself on a vintage pair and have imaginings of spinning around in circles and ..."
"In these days I was playing a lot with the two poi wibble as matt described it (the asynchronous one) ; and I was looking for tricks inside this pattern...two of these are meaningfull f..."
"Hey poi people.I would call this move the hypnotist if I thought I could spell it! tee hee.Basically all you have to do is.... whilst spinning both poi in anyway you like, bring them bo..."
"Not sure if this has been discussed before but didnt see any other topics which looked as if they did.I was just wondering, what other sports/hobbies/activities do you people find help ..."
"This is probably old news to most of you, but I just figured it today, and thought it just might be helpful to someone around here When you spin the poi at your sides, one going forwar..."
"Tonight I got my first ever successful behind the back waist wrap! Forward direction right side, 2 beat. Yayyyy. So far I can only go into it from a btb weave though. Will have to work ..."
"yay ive just about got the BTB weave and im happy but my face hurts alot lol the amount of times i hit my self is countless! but it only took me 7mins to learn from not knowing at all!!..."
"This is a question for those of you who play with more than one toy. I poi, hoop and cj and I'm finding it a bit of a challenge making time to work on everything with every toy I want ..."
"Ok ... i wanted to post this to give newbies some food for thought.Way back in 2001 i decided to list some ideas for progression categorised into families. I never really got around to ..."
"I've just nailed the 5 beat weave. The problem is i'm trying to figure out how you do the 5 beat reverse weave. I've had a look at the video in the learning section but can't see what h..."
"Well, i've just started poi again, after a couple of months break for health reasons, and i come back not knowing ANYTHING that i first learnt (was only spinning for about 2/3months bef..."
"or is at least on life support in a vegative state,have we really so little left to say?there were all thease bright hard new worlds of anti-spins and wibbles and atoms.....anyone got a..."
"Hi Gang,yes its me again, with one of my silly questions!I'm wondering who has moves which take Poi between their legs?For your answers I'm gonna give up all the moves I know that do th..."
"lol, yesterday I learned to do the 3bt weave, and now today, I was playing around, and accidentally did a 5bt weave.. I can do 5bt weaves now I think (It doesnt look really smooth, but ..."
"One of the local spinners has this style where everything he does looks really easy and fluid, but when you try to figure out *what* he's doing, you wind up just scratching your head. L..."
"Literaly. This happened yesterday. Making hyperloops easy for me was all in the kind of poi I was using. I started to learn this with typical 'comet poi' i.e thin strings (picture cord..."
"I've been spinning for awhile and have all the basic moves down, and I'd like to take my basic moves to a higher level. I'm working on BTB moves and antispin type stuffs, so...I've wat..."
"HiBeen doing poi for a while now and i've progressed quite well but I am having trouble mastering the 7 beat weave. My brother can do it perfectly, but he has long and skinny arms and m..."
"Not really a wrap, more like a butterfly hyperloop. I see how it works but it seems to be a very complicated move to get, as you need to get it precise.I so far can only make a little ..."
"hey there again, can now do the weave,butterfly,over head butterfly,over head cork screw,1 handed cork screw,chasing the sun and over head weave. can anyone suggest a new move i could t..."
"hi, i do martial arts, and i practice a lot of acrobatic moves, i was wondering if anyone knows of people (or if it's possiaable) to incorperate capoeria or acrobatic moves into fire po..."
"Don't think this has been posted yet....I'm noticing that people who do yoga seem to spin in noticably cleaner planes with generally better timing, while maintaining a more 'dancy' styl..."
"Spin can be described like a spin, when Poi moves the 'right' direction and body moves the 'right' dirrect- ion. Same like anti-spin, when Poi moves the 'wrong' direction and body moves..."
"hey! ok, so i can do most of the moves that are in the lessons section but find it really hard to go from one into the other (in a routine) and moving around rather than just standing o..."
"Ok so I've got my fire poi, fuel, dip can, dump rag, fire exstinguisher, and first aid kit. I've talked a friend into acting as safety and filming the event. Studyied up on first aid fo..."
"All began when I started studying the basics of contact poi.I don't consider poi on poi moves in this paper, we can refer to these moves as a different class of "contact poi" moves.The ..."
"I have checked this forum out every now and again when I feel a bit stuck. I have been learning poi myself for a while, (and it has been frustrating at times when I get stuck) anyway..."
"Quite simple in Theory but difficult in practice:One hand spinning 3 Beat Weave (1left : 2right) the other 5 Beat (2left : 3right) all together (5+3)/2 = 4 Beat Weave isnt it HOP Beat-..."
"key: *= A circle with both hands L= a circle left hand R= a circle right hand -= a musical beat.Ok I just want to make a list of the main timing variations used in poi spinn..."
"Right then i am a little stuck on a move at the present time i am not to sure how to do it but i think its possible. Let me explain the way i arrived at that this move is possiblei have..."
"what actually is isolation with poi? i do a spot of contact juggling where isolation is where you move your hads round the ball so it looks like your hans are moving but the ball is st..."
"Okay so I started playing around with my pois, and the only thing I can do is the weave (mostly cause that's the hand movement I do with glowsticks at rave concerts). Aside from that, I..."
"Ok, I've been looking through some of the threads and don't understand some of the tearms used.*Beat (I'm guessing thats one full swing)*TTN*TTTif anyone's got anything else they'd li..."
"Ive been doin poi for ahwile, it all seems pretty easy, but lately ive been getting bad cuz im all lazy about it. it would be cool to have a list of all the extremely cool moves that am..."
"before anyone says check the search i have! i couldnt find anything that helped me so if anyone here would like to!! feel free to! lolol cheers! xxxxx"
"I did this earlier today and it blew me away. don't know what it would be called or even which catagory it would fall into. it can come out of a corkscrew or an over head butterfly/TT..."
"I am having serious problems with the pinwheel move. My right hand does it right by left hand keeps making it go a different way!!! Help! I need advice"
"Somebody here's got a bad-ass picture of themselves performing a move called the "Flower". The picture was taken with a 3or 4 second delay, and looks awesome.What is this move, and how ..."
"Hello all! I'm giving a speech on the art and history of fire spinning in my public speaking class. I was thinking it would be really cool to get some quotes from fire spinners about ho..."