Forums > Beginner Poi Moves > New to poi, can someone help me with the butterfly?

Posted: 18th Aug 2004
Start swinging at your sides, then slowly bring your hands together until they're both in the middle in front of you and your poi are spinning flat. If you're right-handed your right hand will be slightly above your left, vice versa if you're left handed.

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Posted: 18th Aug 2004
Try learn both of them, because its beginning of thread the needle . Of cource try BF backward too, folow the same concept from Spiralx

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Posted: 18th Aug 2004
Good point... was teaching TTN last night and should've considered that

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Posted: 18th Aug 2004
Don't cross your hands.
Also when your hands move towards the centre of your body it can be easier if one is quite a bit higher than the other and then you lower it to be on top of the other hand.

You might find more hints if you try a search, this has probably been asked a few tiems before.

hope you get it soon

Posted: 18th Aug 2004
off/on topic: what is thread the needle any way, i look at the video, but it just looks like a butterfly where you move your hand, is that all it is?

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Posted: 18th Aug 2004
Sort of. Each hand alternates being closer to your body each beat basically, which you do by bringing each hand back and over the other arm in turn.

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Posted: 18th Aug 2004
Thread the needle is "One potato, two potato" with poi and is a key move. Learn it now!

Posted: 18th Aug 2004
hey and welcome to poi!!
what everyone else has said sounds pretty good so only advice i have left to offer you is when u r doing ti if u find when the wicks (or lil bags in the case of mouse poi) come to meet at the bottom you may find they hit each other, the solution to this is to have one hand ( i find my right cos im right handed) higher than the other, this will stop colliding at the bottom of the butterfly

personally i learnt the butterfly using my fire poi unlit, i found that the flimsy strings on my cobra poi or any tail poi tangle too easily and makes u get very frustrated, the fire poi just makie a clunk if that contact and dont tangle too easily, however as most poisters will tell u they have a habit at the bottom of the butterfly to collide and go straight for the groin!

good luck

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