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Figure 8
Begin in normal position:
arm stretched straight out to your side, slightly to the front OR the rear of the body AND arm, with thumb pointing up.
We twist the staff 180° so the thumb is pointing down.
At this point the staff should cross from the rear of your body and arm to the front, or vice versa.
The staff untwists 180° and is now back in the normal position but is now on the other side of your body.
So the staff has spun 360° (one full rotation) at this point, and you are back in the normal position.
That's one side of the figure eight, repeat once more to perform a "full" figure eight.
Doublespins
Doublespins add an extra 180° twist into the pattern. There are four different doublespins: Low Forward, High Forward, Low Backward and High Backward. They all feel quite different. The list is in order of the one i found easiest to the one i found hardest.
NOTE TO THE EASILY DISCOURAGED: Often when first learning doublespins, they can seem almost impossible to get smooth and flowing. Thats because the timing must be far more exact than other things you're likely to have learnt yet. Rest assured that practice does pay off, and soon they'll be as easy as the figure eight.
The following applies to all four doublespins:
Begin at the rear of your body for Low Forward or High Backward doublespins.
Begin at the front for High Forward or Low Backward doublespins.
Spin the staff 180° in the appropriate direction (forward or backward)
Now you get another 180° before switching to the other side of the body.
This is acheived with twisting of the wrist and arm.
(That's all the detail i'm going into for now, for the sake of simplification. If anyone wants more details, ask )
Notice that the Low Doublespins go underneath your shoulder, around your hip, when switching side, and the High Doublespins go above the shoulder straight past the head.
After switching side, the staff has spun 360° from normal, and is thus twisted up 360° degrees.
Untwist all of that to return to the normal position. Untwisting is much easier than twisting
So the staff has spun 720° (two full rotations) from normal to normal. Thats a full doublespin.
An interesting thing about doublespins is that they rotate 180° down the length of the staff whenever you are switching side, due to the way your wrist is twisted. This is practically unnoticeable if your staff has rotational symmetry down it's length, which almost all staffs do.
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
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ok, your other question: how to spin the staff in front of you with handswaps
(i think it's called a pinwheel, but i may be wrong) anyway i don't do that, so i can't really answer.
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its another tecnique, you get the sattf to spin the extra bit by letting it roll over your thumb. Its usefull to be able to do, but not nececary, I never really do it for keeping the staff infront (but then again, i dont really do that anymore full stop )
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isn't this one of the most basic moves from which most other moves start? Is it even possible to pick up a staff without automagically starting to do this? Please explain...
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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