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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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picked up a fire rope dart for the first time t'other day.

among other the usual throws/ wraps etc.. managed to wrap it about 4 times round my body + off again the other way with a kind of hula hula movement... feeling inspired by this i went for an insane neck wrap and overcooked it! (not to mention my head)

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Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.

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

go matt... wherever did you learn such things..

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I can now change the direction the poi spins through the air without using my hands ~ instead using forearm, bicep or (foot ~ kinda). Bonkers.




is this what is technically known as a 'wrap'?

explain yoursefl o tastily talented one...


R

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

Wow, I'm a little ways behind some of you guys, but oh well, I'm makin progress.



Newest moves- BTB forward 3bt weave and I can get into and out of it smoothly now in my show



Also I'm still shaky with it but i think I learned a couple of airwrap/hyperloop moves. One is in a forward weave in which I let the chains wrap (about half way down the chain) on the left side and they unwrap on the right side for a neat looking weave combo. The other is from a reverse weave, I let the chains wrap on the left side again, then allow the poi to do a rotation between my arms in front of me, then they unwrap on the right side. Put all this together into a 360 degree combo and it looks kinda neat. What would I call these moves though? I'm guessing the forward one has a different name then the reverse one since the forward one doesn't incorporate a rotation in the middle of your arms and the reverse one I learned does.



I won't be doing the chain wrap moves with fire anytime soon, but I'm planning on incorporating the BTB weave into my next burn! I'm excited about that! It seems to be somewhat of a milestone for most newbies when they finally land the BTB weave stuff, so I'm glad to finally be getting there! I think the "uneducated" crowds are pretty impressed by BTB moves, so I bet these new oppurtunities should greatly improve the flow of my show. Now I can't wait to get the reverse BTB weave and be able to turn with it, then I'll REALLY be cookin

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Wohoo!
*jumps up and down with joy*

Over the past 4 days I've mastered btb weave turns, and today the 6 beat corkscrew.

Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.

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I can now change the direction the poi spins through the air without using my hands ~ instead using forearm, bicep or (foot ~ kinda). Bonkers.



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is this what is technically known as a 'wrap'?

explain yoursefl o tastily talented one...


R




Not quite my feline friend. I can now throw my poi in the air, reverse the direction it is spinning, whilst in mid flight, using my forearm or upperarm, then catch the little bugger as it comes back the other way.

Or slap it back from whence it came, ad infinitum, well, a couple times before flying off in some random direction

You can either use the arm which released the poi or you can use the other hand which is still spinning the other poi. Which is amazing. The action reminds me a lot of using devil sticks. Except it feels more like slapping a wet fish.


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Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.

yaaaaay slapbacks(to borrow a bit of juggling terminology)

these are lovely. sounds like you've been playing with these a bit more than me, so when i get back to some semblance of fitness i'll have a play with some of these ideas....

hugs
R

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.

at last!!

fbtb weave
bbtb to fbtb weave turns (not back again yet tho)
sketchy full waist wrap
sketchy overarm upwards ttn throws (about every 4 beats)

whooo!! i should really make the effort to concentrate on learning new poi stuff more often....

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

Wow, I come to Houston and I can suddenly figure out moves better!

Waist wraps, btb waist wraps.
And an extremely sketchy 7 beat weave (its just about the limit of the bendiness of my arms!)

Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.

"We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty" - Mal Reynolds

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well,
coleman finally showed me what a inside weave was, so thats cool and insolated

i can spin clubs now.

i learnt burks barrage and 441 box stuff, and the pinky lift on the 4 ball stack.

anything else? front to behind the head airwraps. dodgley.

T

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

I learnt some pendulum transitions and continue inside weave movement



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btb airwraps, aparently.

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

Inverted butterfly thru wraps, this is goin to open up alot o stuff

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Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.

progger

Nice one Boomshanka, all i ask is that you post in the New to You' forum on spherculism. That way other poiple who wanna learn it can talk to you about it.

There can be no plaguiarism of my moves because I don't Own any of them (although that particular one is very dear to me )

By giving everything away on spherculism all of those moves become 'public domain' which means everyone has equal rights to them.

But if you can do that move then we have got to meet up one day!!! How b@dass would it look to both do that move sync-ed to music

Take it easy, and keep up the hard work.

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Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.

boomshanka: this is a 441.

441 mills (you can see an animated version if you go here and click on 'mills mess 414') is the same trick but with arms doing the mills related crossovers and carries.

the confusing thing about siteswap and mills is that because the hands have three positions (right over, open, left over), there are three versions of each siteswap depending on which position you start in.

for a clear example of this go here and type the following numbers into the pattern box (all with the program set to juggle mills mess):

3 [normal mills mess]
414 [the easiest 441 mills]
144 [another 441 mills]
441 [the third 441 mills]


i learnt very little this weekend.
my 4b mills went all wobbly
but i came closer to 3b statue of liberty and am starting to get on top of 3b high low showers (both ways).


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4bt TTN! And reverse...almost.


Nice one boomshanka. That move looks pretty hot.

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really just wanted to post so i could thank coleman for putting that juggling link up, nice one!!!!

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

yeah cheers for that coleman thats loadsa help

progger

It took me a While, but I finely got the Behind the Back Forward weave and spin into the BTB Bakward Weave!! Now I can spin both ways (360) BTB weaves!! Its funny though, I learned how to do it by using my staff first, getting the BTB forward/backward spins down with it, then brought it to the poi. It helped Heaps!
I have had the BTB bacwards weave for years, but the forwards one was giving me problems. I really just needed to go out and practice it, however I was a bit Procrastinate about it. Had more to fine tune than try the BTBforward weave and turn. Silly really!

Well just had to get a bit exited about it!

( I forgot about this thread and made a new one ---Ops I'll deleat it)

FIRE IS ALIVE!
IT LIVES AND BREATHS!
IT CONSUMES, AND DISTROYS!
BUT WE CONTROL IT,
AND DANCE WITH FIRE!!

It took me a While, but I finely got the Behind the Back Forward weave and spin into the BTB Bakward Weave!! Now I can spin both ways (360) BTB weaves!! Its funny though, I learned how to do it by using my staff first, getting the BTB forward/backward spins down with it, then brought it to the poi. It helped Heaps!
I have had the BTB bacwards weave for years, but the forwards one was giving me problems. I really just needed to go out and practice it, however I was a bit Procrastinate about it. Had more to fine tune than try the BTBforward weave and turn. Silly really!

Well just had to get a bit exited about it!

( I forgot about this thread and made a new one ---Ops I'll deleat it)

FIRE IS ALIVE!
IT LIVES AND BREATHS!
IT CONSUMES, AND DISTROYS!
BUT WE CONTROL IT,
AND DANCE WITH FIRE!!

FIRE IS ALIVE!
IT LIVES AND BREATHS!
IT CONSUMES, AND DISTROYS!
BUT WE CONTROL IT,
AND DANCE WITH FIRE!!

calm down dear....

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