Forums > Technical Discussion > Something simple the has eluded me

Posted: 23rd Jul 2003
This is tricky because it involves foricing a direction change in one beat. It's like the elusive "smooth transition from butterfly to weave" that people post about here sometimes.

Possible solutions off the top of my head:

- Use the transition that you use now, but slow waaaay down. Less velocity = less momentum, which means the force you put on the poi will have more of an effect.

- Use a wrap, or if you don't want to hit yourself, a near wrap. Make the transition when the poi is still against you body, or in the case of the near wrap, as close your body as it will come during the manoeuvre.

- Practice! I imagine that just practicing forcing it, your chances of being hit will decrease. You'll subconisously learn how to move to avoid the poi. Whether it will look smooth or not is another issue. You'll probably have to slow down, as mentioned above.

Good luck man!

Posted: 23rd Jul 2003
About the butterfly to weave comment: Another problem with Butterfly to Weave or Weave to Butterfly is that Weave is split beat and Butterfly isn't.

Posted: 24th Jul 2003
Why can't a butterfly be split time??

So much fire, so little body hair...

Posted: 23rd Jul 2003
Butterfly can be split time and is quite frequently

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Posted: 25th Jul 2003
I should have learned this earlier but is there anything special you need too do for a revrese overhead butterfly or a revrse alternate butterfly? Mine always hit me in the back or when I bring them back in front they've changed direction.

Posted: 25th Jul 2003
Isn't a butterfly in split time a helicopter?

Posted: 26th Jul 2003
Millenium: no

in answer, if you turn 90 degrees and leave the poi in the same place, congratulations, you have discovered the wall plane! Dont worry about the fire nicking you, is actually much harder to burn yourself than at first apears.

T

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Posted: 26th Jul 2003
Now if you could only convince my mom about that fire thing.

Posted: 26th Jul 2003
hit her in head with burning poi, after she get out of breath chasing you she realise she not burnt!

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-><- Kallisti

Posted: 26th Jul 2003
+), not only could that get him in trouble, it could also get you in trouble.

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Posted: 25th Jul 2003
I beilive she'd let me try it if I was better at it. I showed her and my uncle some of my new tricks today, but it was durring the day and dead glow sticks don't look all that impressive, but they liked it still. I wish I could do some of the butterfly things backwards though.

Posted: 29th Jul 2003
Backwards, or behind your back? First one is dead simple, although ttn backwards likes to hit me in the face. Behind the back, well, maybe I should start up Yoga again.

--Luke

Posted: 29th Jul 2003
Backwards. But I got it now. I think I've been at poi for about a month now. ^_^

Posted: 29th Sep 2010
one hand at a time