Forums > Beginner Poi Moves > isolated buzzsaw (and what people call things)

Posted: 1st Nov 2002
i believe the snakes in question are club swinging moves.

i just got clubs and hence am *way* off doing snakes but i'm sure stone or someone similarly skilled could explain.
a snake kind of consists of keeping the club in contact with your forearm and sort of winding round and round the tip of the club/your elbow.

if that makes it any clearer you must have some kind of telepathy - note the 'kind of' and 'sort of' statements negating all of my description.

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

Posted: 1st Nov 2002
Psych in answer to you're other question:
to quote myself, (can I do that??)

quote:

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the longest I have on video is only 37 beats.

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admittedly, the first 5 beats are a bit crummy, but then it settles down sweet.


Glass

Posted: 1st Nov 2002
show me, show me, show me!

please...?

okay then...

*walks off with head hung low and messing up even measly 3 beat isolated weaves*

[ 07 November 2002, 06:09: Message edited by: coleman ]

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

Posted: 14th Nov 2002
Please post that video on the site. Please please please! With fire?

Posted: 27th Nov 2002
Oh my dear lord. I'm reading these posts and getting so freaking excited to see this video!

I hope you guys get it online soon....if you need it uploaded to webspace, I can take care of that for ya.

Posted: 27th Nov 2002

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Originally posted by Psych:
With fire?

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i tried. i burnt my fingers

are isolations possible to sustain without burning yourself (and not using gel or gloves)?

thought of a nice little example the other day for explaining isolations.
so you've been to the supermarket and you've got a carrier bag in each hand.
they've got a few tin cans in each and you're walking down the street back home.
if you swing your hands back and forth nice and fast, the middle of the carrier bag will become 'isolated'.
that is, your hand will be moving back and forth and the bottom of the bag will make a similar motion in the other direction.

code:

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-------> your hand moves forward,
\ /
\ /
X middle of the bag stays still
/ \
/ \
<------- bottom of the bag moves back in the opp direction to your hand.

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this is an isolation. do it with poi 180 degrees apart, in a complete circle and you're sorted.

-- no responsibility will be taken by the author for loss of groceries during the isolation education period --

[edit: damn. that little diagram would actually help if this bb didn't delete mutiple spaces...
sorted. top man paddy - cheers ]

[ 28. November 2002, 02:18: Message edited by: coleman ]

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

Posted: 27th Nov 2002
hey coleman,
for diagrams like that you can use the "code" tags. Anything within the tags do not get multiple spaces deleted, and code uses a font for which all characters have the same width, like the font we actually write posts in.

Check out this shamelessly self-promotional example...

code:

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