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NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
You know that whole "Rubbing the tummy while patting the head" thing? That most people have trouble with but some folks can do. Well my class showed me another one and I instantly got it, thanks to poi.

Move your right arm as if you're spinning your right poi forward. Move your left arm as if you're spinning a poi backwards.

That's it.

Most of my class couldn't do it.

And you all can.

Ask a nonspinner and they'll probably find it hard. biggrin

Also doing the whole making a circle forward with one hand while backwards with other. So you're doing isolated buzzsaw butterflies without the poi. Most people can't do that for crap.

And you can. biggrin

Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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Dr_MollyPooh-Bah
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Posted:
then do it whilst turning NYC
smile

[Nx?]BRONZE Member
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Posted:
ok, heres something no one can do (well, ok, i can do it, but only just)



swing your right foot clockwise as you look down at it.



then with you right hand trace and anticlock circle in the air.



have a look at your foot, still going clockwise?



T wave

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NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
That's what got us started. I heard it as 'make a 6 with your hand'...

Tis possible with concentration, but not easy.

And Mol, I did to it while turning. Basic of basic club spinning moves. My class was dumbfounded. Then again, my class is dumb reguardless of their foundedness.

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Lillie Frognot a stranger
558 posts
Location: wales


Posted:
That one hand one way and the other hand the other way, it took me ages to get that.
Then I challenged my non poi bloke to do it.
He did it straight away.
I was so dissapointed.

The foot one.
Ouch! that's hard!

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Disc0annoying boy
160 posts
Location: Sweden


Posted:
did i cheat or anything?
i thought the foot-thingy was really easy! biggrin

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filthy 23BRONZE Member
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Posted:
the things that i try to stump myself with (co-ordinationally speaking) are those darned compound flower combos!!!



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oliSILVER Member
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Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom


Posted:
cant do that foot thing for the life of me.

Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no


poiromaniacBRONZE Member
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Location: australia, tasmania


Posted:
multi-skilled group we are, i can do them, cant think up any new one thoo?

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nearly_all_goneSILVER Member
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Posted:
Written by: [Nx?

]

swing your right foot clockwise as you look down at it.

then with you right hand trace and anticlock circle in the air.








A bit OT, but very random that someone else tried to get me to do this the day you posted it.. a non-spinner..



It's a conspiracy I tell you!



I'll be able to do this one when I do some more foot-poi. I reckon that if I can do a foot butterfly whilst doing a weave with my arms I'll be able to do this! (falls over)

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margitaSILVER Member
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Posted:
dang that foot one is hard!! ubblol

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IfritBRONZE Member
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Location: Somerset, England


Posted:
I can do the leg thing but it hurts some much. Its like the muscles in my leg dont all want to go the same way. aww, painful but strangly interesting spank wink

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Burning Braineye shifter
321 posts
Location: between my headphones


Posted:
Written by: [Nx?

swing your right foot clockwise as you look down at it.






ok now spin your left foot counter clockwise.



now do it while standing up biggrin

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oliSILVER Member
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Posted:
nybody out there write something with your right hand, and write something different with your left hand? its hard, i cant even write with my left hand.

Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no


MikeIconGOLD Member
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Posted:
All righties should be able to write forward with their right hand and backwards (mirroring) with their left at the same time. I can at least.

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oliSILVER Member
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Posted:
i can kinda do that, altough the scrawl produced by my left hand looks like i wrote it when i was 2... but different things with each hand ive decided is impossible...

Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no


NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
Written by: ICoN


All righties should be able to write forward with their right hand and backwards (mirroring) with their left at the same time. I can at least.




I'm pretty sure that that's how Leo Di Vinci kept all of his notes. By writing left handed backwards. So nobody could easily read them over his shoulder.

That's what he told me anyway.

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Yes, let's go.
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AdeSILVER Member
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1,897 posts
Location: australia


Posted:
I also heard about leonardo that he wrote backwards because no one ever bothered to correct his writing style, which was mostly self taught... smile

nearly_all_goneSILVER Member
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom


Posted:
Written by: oli


i can kinda do that, altough the scrawl produced by my left hand looks like i wrote it when i was 2...




But it wouldn't if your left hand was as practised at intricate stuff like writing as your right

What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau


Dr_MollyPooh-Bah
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home


Posted:
Written by: NYC


I'm pretty sure that that's how Leo Di Vinci kept all of his notes. By writing left handed backwards. So nobody could easily read them over his shoulder.

That's what he told me anyway.




I think he wrote with his feet as well. Four things on the go at once sort of thing.

My feet can write, but still have trouble tying their shoelaces smile

oliSILVER Member
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Posted:
thatwould have been brilliant at school - i could have written 4 asignments at once.
in the future teachers will be able to work children 4 times as hard smile

Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no


NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
Written by: Molly


Written by: NYC


I'm pretty sure that that's how Leo Di Vinci kept all of his notes. By writing left handed backwards. So nobody could easily read them over his shoulder.

That's what he told me anyway.




I think he wrote with his feet as well. Four things on the go at once sort of thing.

My feet can write, but still have trouble tying their shoelaces smile




Your feet need to learn to pipette. wink

Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]


musashiistarring Skippy the green llama
1,148 posts
Location: Seattle, WA


Posted:
Leo also did many of his notes in blood(bull blood I believe), seemd like a good place to add some useless knowledge biggrin

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foolaussiefirenewbie
4 posts
Location: Here allways here


Posted:
I can write two separate words (one each hand ) at the same time whats hard is right forward with your left hand and a different word mirrored with your right. (I can also rite left upside down right side right way up at the same time) I learned these tricks at about age 8 and I still need to practice but it means when it comes to ambidexterous twilling its a doddle (practice your twirling will open right up what was imposiable becomes mearly hard

Smart but maybe not smart enough


FireTomStargazer
6,650 posts

Posted:
Well then go ahead and spin both poi forward, stop ONLY one and start spinning this one backwards - now you are are spinning opposite directions... then stop ONLY the second one and reverse, so both are spinning backwards...

Repeat this as often as poissible, so you are comfortable with stopping and changing directions at both sides...

Sounds simpler than it actually is...

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RovoGOLD Member
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Location: Austin, TX, USA


Posted:
I remember this thread. I always point this out to poi people I meet cause it's soo true and really interesting.

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[Nx?]BRONZE Member
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Location: Europe,Scotland,Both


Posted:
fire toms post is a good one, its a basic drill, but very important, id add that you should progress to having the pauses come directly after each other, and learing it with inverse stalls too.

T wave

This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti


TinklePantsGOLD Member
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4,219 posts
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Posted:
I have always found these things easy to do. Maybe I am not normal? ubblol

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Ange_GSCGOLD Member
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Posted:
Hey! I CAN do that thanks to poi! Cool

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godavidsonBRONZE Member
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Location: Wellington, New Zealand


Posted:
yes I tried fire toms drill today and failed miserably. redfaceI can not get the right hand to continue spinning when stalling the left. confusedAlways good to find something new to work on (usually a basic thing I should've discovered 4 years ago.... wink)

g

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Tom_ShillSILVER Member
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Location: Brighton, United Kingdom


Posted:
I can do the hands and feet things due to drumming I think. It helps with that whole 4 way independence thing, doing different things with all your hands and feet. For the crazy both-hands-writing types, try drawing a circle with one hand and a square with the other. Properly mind you, no curvy squares or flat-sided circles! I saw a guy doing it on TV a while ago. He had a 'split brain', so one side of the body can act completely independently of the other. It must be crazy. As spinners we just get used to the feeling of doing different things until it doesn't feel weird anymore, but this split brain business is on a whole different level. FireTom's drill is really good. I like trying to isolate it in buzzsaw, and keep the centre of rotation in exactly the same place throughout the stall and change of direction. I can't do it, but it's nice to play with smile

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