Wrap Theory...... Theres millions of them!

yo,

I have been getting severly into wrap combos recently, and I thought id share what ive learnt. The aim here is for wrap combinations where the poi swing no more than 360 before recoiling.

************ WARNING! what follows is very long and highly technical! *************

so, to make matters simpler, i will deal only with arm wraps and leg wraps. All thease wraps are recoil wraps and work best with glowsticks.

Basic theory.

for each arm/leg there are thease diffrent wraps to combine:

hand on the same side as the wrap: top and bottom wrapping from the front. thease can be done with the hand being either horisontal from the arm or verticaly down (of course you can be vertically up aswell, and probibly horisontally behind but the latter is awkward and the former dosnt apply to the second section, therfore im ignoring them.

hand to opposite arm: there are top and bottom wraps from the front and the same again but from the back.

Wall plane hand to opposite side: top and bottom recoil from the front and top and bottom at the front of the body from waist wrap aswell as top and bottom behind the body in wall plane. For the legs you can wrap either top and bottom wall plane at the front or top and bottom of the ankle at the back.

thats the easy bit...

Combination Theory.

* I am using mainly arms for thease examples, but remeber that they can be mixed up with legs too, and any other places you can think of. *

In combination you have three elements, wrap timing, spin timing and turning.

Wrap timing: a wrap can either be accomplished every 360 degrees ie. going from top of the arm same side to bottom of the same side, or every 180 degrees (refered to in this post as click-clack wraping) eg. from top same arm wall plane to top opposite arm wall plane.

Spin timing is as usual, we have paralell time (both poi in the same direction at the same time) weave time (both poi in same direction but spinning opposite each other) butterfly time (poi spinning opposite directions meeting at top and bottom) and split time (poi spinning in opposite directions meeting at the sides).

Turning is the hard bit, and we will come onto that later.

Wrap weave:

a nice little combo and a good starting place for anything. its kinda like a three beat weave but instead of beats you end up with threee wraps on each side. thease wraps are consecutive, they happen one after the other, not at the same time. they are in side plane.

start forward spinning weave time. left poi recoils from bottom of left bicep followed by right poi, left poi then recoils off top of left bicep and then right poi comes to right and recoils off top of right bicep. left poi then crosses and recoils from bottom of right bicep followed by right poi. left poi comes back to the left and recoils from top left bicep followed by right poi then left poi recoils from bottom left bicep as right poi crosses back and recoils from top of right biocep, continue ad nausium.

Phew! that was the easy bit to describe!! basicall what happens is each poi wraps twice on its own arn and once on the opposite arm, hence wrap weave.

Butterfly and spit time wraps:

the diffrence between thease two really depends on hand position if your hand is horisontal to the shoulder and both poi recoil at the same time then its a split time wrap, if perpendicular (straight down) from the shoulder then its a butterfly wrap. you may ask what the diffrence is, and the diffrence is about turning, but as I said we'll come to that later.

All combos in this section have the poi recoiling at the same time, of course you could have butterfly position with split timing, and that would lead to consecutive wraps, but what is the diffrence between them and weave timing? it all gets horribly confusing so im gonna stick to the basics for now. again thease wraps all happen in the wall plane.

so with split time you have wraps at the front, poi on one side, poi on respective sides. One poi same side from the front other poi at the opposite side from btb, top and bottom. Once you move to butterfly position then you have click clack wraps between the arms and legs, either with both hand in fron, or one hand btb. eg left poi wraps top of left arm arm from front, right poi wraps top of left arm from the back, letft and right poi then travel down and recoil from underneith left leg. from ther you could go back to opposite arms, or both ot the right arm, or whatever.

butterfly wrapping like this is less complicated than the weave stuff, cos they wrap at the same time.

but here is where it gets intresting....

Turning (at last!):

ok, first of all a few excercises in the wall plane.

weave wraps:

poi wrap to opposite biceps/forarms. both poi stop at the same time on opposite arms. no problem.

Poi wrap to same biceps. again at the same time they stall, but on the bicep of the arm holding the poi.

from thease two positions you can either do:

a full 360 spin to the same position upside down eg. left poi stalls on bottom of right bicep, right poi stalls on top of left bicep. both poi recoil and travel 360 ending with left poi on top of right bicep and right poi at the bottom of left bicep. pretty basic, applies to same side stops.

or a 180 'click clack' wrap, eg poi start on opposite biceps, recoil and recoil again from same biceps.

got thoes, good.

In butterfly there are lots more. for 360 wraps you have both on opposite arms at the top to both on opposite arms at the bottom and vice versa. then you have the same manouver but to respective arms. then we get into click clacks, both poi hit bottom of opposite arms and then go to bottom of same arms, again this works on top. the last is both poi to one arm, one top, one bottom. to both poi other arm, same poi top and bottom.

this last one is a nifty move in its own right and Ill take a moment to descibe how to get it.

spin split time forwards, now stick your left elbow into the path of the poi, both hit it simutainiously! they bounce off and you quickly stick right elbow in to catch them both at 180 degrees from original wrap, now just bounce back and forth. (this sounds easy, but like all the butterfly wraps in the wall plane requite perfect plane controle)

Right, now we have all thease sorted we can turn from side plane wrap combos, through the wall plane and across to the other side.

If your doing wrap weave and you have just wrapped each poi and on its respective arm then when you turn into wall plane the poi will next wrap onto opposite biceps.

try forward weave time, hit right poi off right side first, then left off fleft side then turn to left putting both biceps out you will end up with poi on oppsite biceps. from her you can click-clack or go straght into wrap weave facing the other way.

If however you take left poi off bottom of left arm first followed by right poi off bottom of left arm and then go to wall plane then the left poi strikes the bottom of your right arm as the right poi is recoiling from the bottom of the left, this put you in butterfly time.

Thease are the reliable things I know about turning, Im posative there are another 4/5 ways to do it, but i think this post is long enough dont you?

After all that text Ive only really desribed some basic combos, the wrap weave can be mixed up with more btb wraps and I havent even mentioned ww wraps in the side plane. I could also point out the 'curtsey' in the side plane, which alows wrapping from infron and behind the body off the leg, front poi comming of the knee, back poi off the ankle, combine it with some 'tracers' maybe.

The world of wrap combos is pretty huge, hopefully you can see the potential descibed here and thats only from 4 wrap points! if we start getting neck wraps, handcuffs ect into the picture too then it becomes horrendously complicated.

Biggup the glowstickers for inspiring me on this quest, please feel free to add your moves and ask questions and thank you for sitting through this. If you didnt manage to sit through it, I quite understand!

Love to you all,

Tom

[ 14. October 2003, 11:15: Message edited by: [Nx?] ]

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