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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



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

"beg beg grovel beg grovel"
"master"
--FSA

"There was an arse there, i couldn't help myself"
--Rougie

right... Smit decided to call this one 'Pants on Fire'. It's kinda similar to the Rope dart 'neck wrap to head inferno' but funnier. here's how it works....

1. wear your jeans really low round your waist skater stylie.

2. make a habit of wiping your parafin soaked hands on the backs of your jeans/ exposed cotton boxer shorts throughout the evening.

3. towards the end of the night, with your flaming poi start doing lots of btb moves making sure to brush up against your lower back/ tops of your legs. various waist wraps are quite good for this.

4. you should by now start feeling a nice warmth around the buttocks. keep going for a while until things feel toastier and then exclaim 'it feels like my bum's on fire' to which everyone else should reply 'that's because it is!'. they should then struggle to run to your assistence while trying not to fall over themselves from laughing so much...

WARNING: this trick results in the rapid disintergration of underwear. it may also be quite dangerous and should never be attempted intentionally..

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

Got my first hyperloop a few days ago

Ok, they still feel strange and a bit out of control.. I'll go on working on them

Thanks lovely scoiattolo,


S

"We're all mad here!"

The adventures first! Explanations take such a dreadful time...

my original signature was tooo long.
this one is shorter

Poi : One hand BTL from the front and behind the back with cross- over
Still amazed form snakes and flowers

Staff: Isolation

POI THEO(R)IST

"We can't stop here! This is bat country!"

"Welcome to the U-S-A,
We'll treat you right, unless you're black or gay, or Cherokeeeeee!!"
-Brian Griffin from "Family Guy" (the dog)

the basic outer hyperloop thing, but crossing my hands over in the other way... (only forewards so far)

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

Been adicted to my new twin stix lately so not much poi stuff...
got the backwards hyperloop weave & kinda horizontal hyperloops & airwraps. - still abit messy though. almost got isolations down pat. soon i'll be able to isolate anywhere at anytime! but not yet
ooh reverse flowers. not tried them before. look pretty :-)

We don't stop playing because we grow old,
We grow old because we stop playing.

this weekend was like an explosion of new tricks (or new variations of old ones)

TTN to mexican wave and back
a large number of wrap combos (yes, i finally started throwing wraps back into my routine....it's been so long i forgot some of em)
i learned a new grab and hit (not quite a wrap, but similar to get it to change directions)

i love dating someone who kicks my butt to get practicing....i learn all sorts of new stuff!

I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

**giggles**

i've been away on holiday

then at a juggling convention
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i learnt some new tricks

but i bruised my hand on the first day of the bjc

this taught me not to try and catch clubs after throwing them to the ceiling of a big top



back later with my 'new fun things i can do with various props list' for tom (and droo cos i know you read this too ).

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

with balls:

i learnt some multiplex thingys ala bill berry.
a 'catapult' - sweet hacky-type pickup that is just too cool for words.

a great 2b trick (surprisingly not learnt in the extreme 2b workshop but rather on the sunday afternoon in jay gilligan's 'things not to try and learn at the end of a convention' workshop).

new triple trick with clubs: triple, sync single spin and reverse spin with the other two clubs. learnt this and then the next day watched bill berry doing it on both sides continuously with the sync opposite direction throws as doubles

tricks i caught only once during the convention:

1 up gambol (cascade -> quad -> forward roll -> cascade).

silly malte trick: throw a quad, turn to face opposite direction and quickly throw both clubs sync in single spins -> turn back round and catch the quad.

and i got three throws into 4b high-low shower

new 5b record of 48 (grrr).

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

Step (el-nombrie)

"Here kitty kitty...." - Schroedinger.

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

bloo, that sounds gorgeous

i got 51 catches with five last night (about time too).

getting some new balls next week.
mmmmmm, props made to order...

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

burkes barrage both ways (thanx to someone at spitz a while back)

follow

gone back to learning more 4 ball stuff to train myself up for 5...

legs on fire (similar to pants on fire, see previous page)

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

"beg beg grovel beg grovel"
"master"
--FSA

"There was an arse there, i couldn't help myself"
--Rougie

woooooo! i learnt that stupid crossed arm monkey thingy that hits you in the head a lot.

i feel like someone punched me in the face.

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

Quote:
stupid crossed arm monkey thingy



i suppose i'll have to forgive that... i can't get angry with you after making you batter yourself around the head then getting you to darn my poi.

i got a few btb crossed arm turns going on last night
and some other contorted pireoutte business

and if those weren't silly enough already - a horizontal between the legs tangle with double knee recoil wrap. In case you're having trouble imaging what that looks like: it looks quite silly.

In fact the only thing i can think of that looks sillier is not being able to do it properly when you try to show it to people

"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."

Quote:
woooooo! i learnt that stupid crossed arm monkey thingy that hits you in the head a lot.

i feel like someone punched me in the face.


You did manage to do that an awful lot. Must get my squidgy poi and try it tonight

"Moo," said the happy cow.

mostly/sometimes isolated windmill

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

First intention, then enlightenment..
Ars Pyronomica

" Life is programmed. Whether death is programmed or not is yet to be determined."

aye, that pretty good.

take advantage of being a teenager! its so much easier to learn when you are younger!

cheers.

"Here kitty kitty...." - Schroedinger.

Yay! Finally got btb 3 beat weave

I like doing transitions - one move into another into another... any suggestions of moves that go smoothly into btb weave?

Cake or Death?