Forums > Beginner Poi Moves > The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread

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.



here a pat on the back in advance from me



::flash enthusiastically pats your back::

HoP Posting Guidelines
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
If you can answer YES to these 4 questions then you may post a reply.

proper hyper loop throws. and damn solid too. why oh why did it take me a year to get

head roll isolations(poi)

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

oh wheesht you

way to deflate everyone else

i nearly got btb not that its yeay after THAT post

random murbles

BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL. 30th april ~ Calton hill - Edinburgh
SAMHUINN FESTIVAL. 31st October ~ Royal Mile - Edinburgh

it's not meant like that


but great use of a scots word that noone'll lunderstand. well done.

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

something dark

butterfly shaped

with a tangle

Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no

I now can isolate most of my weaves and thats about all i am focusing on at this point in time isolations are the shizznit

Peace, Love, Circles

I understand.....

ok, finally learnt the machne, so ill kneed thoes variations now cole....

and when I get back someone has to show me why my chops arnt working....

oh and got thoes wrap-hyps going too....

T

p.s. I understand blue

This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti

Forwards BTB - took a shocking amount of time too learn. Can just about do it 5bt now as well though.

Still can't get that sodding 3bt with one buzzsaw weave though

---------------------------------
Breathing fire doesn't look good on the resume - Everclear

6 ball sync flash (outside circles) again.

and for the first time 6 ball async flash (outside circles).
twice.

sir blackarse - i recommend full-on bak to basics style learning for the 3bt buzzsaw weave: one hand at a time.
but make sure the empty handed arm is across your body so you learn to do the buzzsaw round it -- over, under, through.

it still doesn't work properly with my left hand = wonky buzzsaw weave

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

Yep back to basics, it's getting there. I still have trouble with it on one side. God nothings been this hard to learn since those first attempts at 3bt weave

Is it easier doing outside for six - on the two or three occasions I've tried it I've always gone inside. Never tried async though

Ross

---------------------------------
Breathing fire doesn't look good on the resume - Everclear

Quote:
God nothings been this hard to learn since those first attempts at 3bt weave


yeah, why is that? totally can't get my head let alone my arms round it. they always bail into a hyperloop.. just learnt that underleg move that nick does on dervishly yers though, the opp dirrection both poi through legs (one from behind one in front) move

progger

i just learned the 3-beat btb weave this elusive bugger has been evading me for a long long time

Peace, Love, Circles

i got the 5 bt foreward btb waeve prtty good, but i can't even do it in revers in front of me. Very annoying and much bruising of the forehead.

(i have a nice big cut that i'll be showing off as soon as my production manager lets me out to play. )

I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.

btbttn- but only downwards!!! wasn't hard just never thought of it before...

It is our fantasies that make us real. Without our fantasies we're just a blank monkey' - Terry Pratchett

I did my first 5 ball flash! *BOINGBOINGBOINGBOING*

then i did 9 more! not in a row but hey....

and I got btb forwards butterfly... and double over the shoulder throws.... and a new suicide, but im gonna post that....

T

This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti

mmmm uglies


i just learnt some wierd inverted weave with an extra inversion btb... i think it ends up being a 4 point 5bt. grrr will have to find some kind of better explanation than that methinks( to self...)

all sorts of new things with my tasty new fairieben poi...

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

A good move though

---------------------------------
Breathing fire doesn't look good on the resume - Everclear

OK, so it's not pretty yet, and there's no way I'd do it with fire yet, BUT

I finally got the reverse 5 beat weave. YAY!! It's UGLY, but I've got it...now...time to finesse it.

Now to start doing the extra beat fountains.....

oh and...
Now...if I could just get the behind the back FORWARD (I've already got the reverse).

Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.

okokok,

juggling: so I learnt the inside variation of burks, and worked out church windows with 4 (cant do it tho....) a few catches of statue of liberty, continious inside chops and a very new thing for me, strait up chops. this has led to a move i aint seen before i call 3 straight up, eg, do a yoyo, but at the sideinstead of above, make an upwards chop on the other ball and all three got straight up in a line, hence the name. ive found places to put this in all over, my fav at the moment being in burks. beutifull way into contact moves too.

poi: did some multi-beat cross armed hypes and a turning butterfly buzzsaw hyp.

T

This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti

juggletastic session last night:



now fairly solid are:

statue of liberty (left hand high) <-- this has taken about 1 month

contortionist (cascade) on both sides <-- been thinking about these forever it seems and then got them out of the blue

441 mills (u ball as 1st 4)





progress report on numbers juggling:

30ish catches of 5

6 ball sync flashes about 50/50 now





for tom - cheers for the text!

glad they liked it man

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

Quote:
sir blackarse - i recommend full-on bak to basics style learning for the 3bt buzzsaw weave: one hand at a time.
but make sure the empty handed arm is across your body so you learn to do the buzzsaw round it -- over, under, through.

it still doesn't work properly with my left hand = wonky buzzsaw weave


Indeed that's what I've gone back to doing - instead of one, over, under for the 3bt weave it's over, under, in for the 3bt buzzsaw weave. Definitely not nearly as easy as you might think, *sigh* I think I've got it now, not the best though, and it keeps ending up as an isolated weave instead.

"Moo," said the happy cow.

humm...

wrong direction step throughs, bth hyps/airwraps (i believe they are the same thing now.) isolated weave hypes (wonky) double butterfly neckwrap suicides. hyperloop suicides. alternate butterfly extensions.

for cole, i only post here to amuse you!

T

This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti

BTB airwraps
3bt buzzsaw weave confusion thing (see other post regarding hitting self in face)

A very nice combination:

airwrap -> bounce on poi off opposite arm straight after to get you into a butterfly -> butterfly hyperloop -> bounce poi off arm again to change direction -> repeat ad nauseum

can't quite get it going constantly yet though

Also stepthrough airwrap but letting go of the one that goes between the legs, turn 180 degrees and catch it (should've just about unwrapped by now).

---------------------------------
Breathing fire doesn't look good on the resume - Everclear

z for tom n ross.

i can do a total of one of those moves yoo two just listed.



46 catches of 5 last night (i've started counting my catches and have set a target of 30mins practice a day to get a 100 catch best run by the time the ejc gets here).

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

yo.



blackass....



the real kick with that combo is to do the transitions while tangled i.e butterfly tangle hit one poi off the arm into weave tangle. and back the other way.



todays shenanigans....

mostly today I have been working on overhead airwraps. Butterfly overhead is fine and sometimes re-tangles bth and comes front again to untangle



the flaming halo is working now, btb airwraps above 50%, full bth airwraps (a full halo?) happened twice. some more thru wrap shenanigans...



what else? this is a problem I have, I forget half the moves I learn in a day, even tho i only stopped practice about 1/2 and hour ago! got some new catches for the contact ball, back crosses to elbow catches basically. (inside and outside elbow) oh yes and that funky horisontal metior stop.



later dudes....



T



EDIT: see, this is what i mean, head like a seive. Isolated watermills, proper. T

This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti