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2,758 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
This space is for all those funksters busy improving their technique by learning new moves - made-up or traditional.
Tell us all about it! We love hearing about our fellow poiers/staffies/misc. toyers succeeding with new things
It's just hard to keep up with it all sometimes, so if we keep it together you'll be certain to get a little feedback.
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32 posts
Location: Echuca Country Victoria, Australia
Sure I suck at poi.
This week I got them out again after too long.
I finally managed Thread the Needle (FINALLY!), butterfly behind my back, over head butterfly and a very scrapy mexican wave.
Plus I cleaned up my 3 beat weaves in both directions and turning between them.
So it's been a very good weekend, but now I'm covered in soot so off to hit the shower!
HOP librarian
1,841 posts
Location: Prague, Czech. Republic
6B TTN crosser
Basic move is split time 6B Thread the needle in the front. The diffrence is that the "side" parts are wheel plane cross-overs, with one hand BTB and one front with hands crossed. Other difference is that its not so static so I move my shoulders and hips, where the legs stay same position.
(Bluecat is doing this on spinnach, it looks fore a while like when both hand are BTB, ie crosser.)
I can send the timing of spinnach if somebody want.
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POI THEO(R)IST
lurker
380 posts
Location: Nashville, TN, USA
Written by: Richee
Basic move is split time 6B Thread the needle in the front. The diffrence is that the "side" parts are wheel plane cross-overs, with one hand BTB and one front with hands crossed. Other difference is that its not so static so I move my shoulders and hips, where the legs stay same position.
(Bluecat is doing this on spinnach, it looks fore a while like when both hand are BTB, ie crosser.)
I can send the timing of spinnach if somebody want.
:R
hook it up. i loves some spinach.
spinning last night --
i finally got the "longarm" crap down where you put one low WW and one high BTH and make flower turns.
i tried it weave and butterfly and liked it better butterfly by far. then i wanted to try tangling them, which i got eventually going along the plane of the shoulders on both sides (bth/btb bfly tangle turns?? HOTT). then i wanted to bicep wrap them, which worked to a degree. then i wanted to tangle/wrap them, which didn't work well at all, so i started learning to tangle/wrap BTB instead. ;Dthen i got distracted by girls. stupid Spring!
veteran
1,286 posts
Location: My House, United Kingdom
I just managed something really weird, a one handed horizontal infinate hyperloop (and yes i did catch it and carry on spinning....although i havent doen it since
)IT WAS GREAT!!!
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HOP librarian
1,841 posts
Location: Prague, Czech. Republic
Anti-spin orbital
basic move - Airwrap
Poi - Backward airwrap in buzzsaw.
Hand - Foreward circle.
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lightning,
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POI THEO(R)IST
master of disaster
3,354 posts
Location: New York, USA
(finally) butterfly waistwrap
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
632 posts
Location: Southampton Uni
WHOO!
Butterfloops from left to right, entry from below (sniggers)... fun!
Spin, bounce, be one with the world, because it is yours to enjoy...
3,149 posts
Location: London
"butterfloops"
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
old hand
740 posts
Location: Darkest Bedford., United Kingdom
"Butterfloops" Outstanding!
Me, 360-turny-waistwraps with a sexy little between-the-legs finish... When I'm not too busy smacking myself in the nuts.
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577 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
I had developed this combination a bit ago, then forgot how to do it, then re-figured it out yesterday
Starts with a forward butterfly to a stally catch on the opposite wrists so the chains overlap, then twists off into a horizontal tangle, then untangles into a corkscrew.
Name of the combination: wristburner
Don't quote me on that, I don't name moves..
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HOP librarian
1,841 posts
Location: Prague, Czech. Republic
Suibom > You can do same double catches that twists off into
separate loops too.
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big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
Written by: Suibom
I don't name moves..
but you do name combos it seems - how bizarre
i learnt some things i should already know how to do - turning with same direction hip/shoulder reels
- improved my timing on same direction hip reels (but it is *far* from fixed)
- played with mixing up hip and shoulder reels but got confused by stretched out circles so instead...
- i ended up learning a lovely clean backwards maxi plus original flavour hyperloop - right to left that is
i also learnt that my antispin weave (reverse poi) seems to want to work better if i point my hands upwards - the timing of the top crossovers make loads more sense in that arm position
cole. x
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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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veteran
1,247 posts
Location: lost, Canada
omg I cant wait to be with you guys at Play and EJC! none of what I read makes sense to me, I dont know the names, or even the positions. But I think I cant do most of it...Looking forward to learning from you all!
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old hand
768 posts
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
At long last I cracked the forwards btb weave! Can turn 180 to reverse, but don't have the full 360 yet.
Also have gotten:
Split-direction weave
clockwise waistwrap
butterfly waistwrap
I'm pretty stoked.
taken out of context i must seem so strange
~ ani di franco
6 posts
Single handed overhead butterfly!
master of disaster
3,354 posts
Location: New York, USA
btb bfly airwrap
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
old hand
717 posts
Location: Bristol, England
Thanks to Oli a Forwards "Not-Colman 5" (Why is it called that?)
After getting forwards I thought OK now backwards and then realised I can't do reverse 5Beat Weave
"**grumble*spuriouswindmills*grumble**" - Coleman
"if poi was only for girls there wouldnt be many good poi spinners...." - Nx
1,376 posts
Location: London, UK
Written by: coleman
i also learnt that my antispin weave (reverse poi) seems to want to work better if i point my hands upwards - the timing of the top crossovers make loads more sense in that arm position
Makes sense seeing as how antispin is sort of "upside-down" compared to a normal weave.
Got some long arm/WW BTB combinations going the other day at Spitz.
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big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
Written by: garthy
Thanks to Oli a Forwards "Not-Colman 5" (Why is it called that?)
After getting forwards I thought OK now backwards and then realised I can't do reverse 5Beat Weave
its not (well, not exactly
)...its called the 'notcoleman5' cos that's what rob called it after i showed him it
the name before that was 'wrists-not-tocuhing 5bt weave with a crossarm buzzsaw beat' and that was clearly a rubbish name.
i came across the move when the only inverted/inside stuff we knew of were buzzsaws and watermills - we didn't have any good ways of describing it yet
the crossarm buzzsaw beat in it led to lots of lovely things and the more fundamental version (the 'notcoleman3') caused lots of confusion when we first began discussing 'buzzsaw weaves'.
i will love rob forever for (not)naming a move after me
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Your friendly neighbourhood mad scientist
479 posts
Location: Over the hills and far away, United Kingdom
The reverse 5-beat weave is officially mine. =)
Now I just need to link it to a 5-beat and a BTB 5-beat and I too can be a Jedi... =)
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not with cactus
2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom
move i learnt today was a horizontal buzzsaw weave...
Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
turned all the way round with an antispin weave last night
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
106 posts
Location: Portsmouth, UK
Ummm.... I learnt alternate butterfly..... woo?
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Carpal \'Tunnel
2,895 posts
Location: Cambridge UK
woo.
WOOOOOO!!!
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106 posts
Location: Portsmouth, UK
Yay! lol
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HOP librarian
1,841 posts
Location: Prague, Czech. Republic
Just got today catched pendulums triangles, than can be
repeated with string stall catches.
Very nice move from White Poi raven, small vid here.
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Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Happy birthday lovely Richee!!!
Getting to the other side 
old hand
768 posts
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Written by: coleman
turned all the way round with an antispin weave last night
cole. x
*gasps with astonishment and envy* Well done mr. cole.
I don't think I've ever seen that done. Looking forward to the day... taken out of context i must seem so strange
~ ani di franco
master of disaster
3,354 posts
Location: New York, USA
5bt butterfly weave
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
1 + 1 = 3
3,540 posts
Location: Bristol UK
I've learnt some sort of wallplane butterfly antispin thingy...
And hybrid weave as well (one poi isolated, one poi normal spin)
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