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I've seen 4 poi work
I've seen people using their teeth
I've seen some people use their feet

So just what is the limit to how many poi one person can spin?
Perhaps this is a new direction for poi to go in? Like a multi-ball juggling...

I can vaguely imagine 4 pairs poi, possibly 5 - a pair in each hand, one pair in your teeth (butterflying). It's possible to weave with your feet, but only lying on your back which means you can't use your teeth - however you might be able to do some horizontal butterfly stuff. Heck, you might even be able to do a butterfly with each foot

Might it be possible to fo 3 or 4 poi in each hand?

Perhaps get a head spin going with a staff too...

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As far as i know 5 meteors at the same time is out there . . . more kind of a juggling variation, but still

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Well I just posted a guy doing 6 here.



I've not tried 4 poi but I've had a go at double meteor. I personally think that if you intend on doing a lot of one handed poi where you won't have 2 poi leaving your hand for example 4 poi. There is only benefits in using meteor (like throws) unless you wanted to do crazy stuff like thow from 2 in one hand to catch in mouth or something, which will probably happen (I hope).



I also like double meteor because when I was playing with it I was using sock poi with a ball in each end meaning I could switch back to normal poi easily.



Poi in the mouth isn't that hard either (well by itself ) not tried it with more than one other poi in my hand.

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there was a page on bolas somewhere that said stuff.

Some indiginous tribe somewhere spin bolas with up to 12 ends, so if you had one in each hand...?

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Poi in the mouth isn't that hard either (well by itself ) not tried it with more than one other poi in my hand.



Other than butterly, is there much else? 2 bt weave perhaps (although you would look a lot like a demented sheep trying to shake it's ears off...)

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and i don't really think it's worth it. while six poi has a certain amount of comedy value (sprawling on your back, flailing with all your limbs) i'm not sure that it actually looks very good,



no man - it has a *huge* amount of comedy value!

please, go for 7 next year...


by the way, funny that your theoretical limit to numbers poi is 12 - equal to the maximum number of balls flashed

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Well, it may be ugly at first, but then so is a 7 beat weave
Practice, practive - you might be able to do that caterpillar/snake wave thing whilst poi-ing. Now *that* would be funny

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my theretical limit was only for the second type. however, i think i
shall revise it from twelve to fourteeen. same as before, but this time
you're lying with your back on the ceiling (hey, if you can spin fourteen
poi you can almost certainly fly, but failing that you could just be
suspended there) and with the extra set butterfly-ing in your mouth.

this brings the theretical limit of poi spinning higher than how many balls
can be juggled at the moment, conclusively proving that poi is superior
to juggling.





i knew it. and if you ever manage to spin 14 poi at once, make sure you video it

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One time I was picking up poi sets to move our fuel dump. I must have had 8 sets, four in each hand. And I spun those...... I guess it was an ugly multiplex or something....... Does that count?

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