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BTB Fishtailes.
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POI THEO(R)IST
uh oh....
Thoughts arrive like butterflies...
Written by: MynciWritten by: why
and played with other non-stick-shaped toys too
bad staffer
ouch
well... technically a whip is shaped like a (wobbly) tapered staff
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw
floppy staff A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
Written by: pojeyes, but I can't play...Written by: why
Yay for PLaY...
360 Halo
managed (messy) full steves for 1st time too
Arnt 360 halos effin fun i recently learned those and i LOVE doing em.
shoulder still dodgy (injury on Sat of PLaY) AND someone else has my sticks
and
for Mynci You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw
143 posts
Location: Broomfield, Colorado
Written by: McAlpine
I just learned the 'falling over on wet grass face first into the mud' trick!!
I learned that one three years ago in an incredible Michael Jackson move that quickly became the stuff of "This one time...at band camp" legend.
I got under-the-leg catches last night off of left-handed tosses! Freakin miracle!
"Watch those explosions in the sky and you'll go blind, but not this time. Will you live in hope or dark desire? What can I say? F*ck love give me fire." ~Cities Of Night by Blaqk Audio (Davey Havok)
Proudly MCRmy
Once I pick a staff in vertical position between
hands like prayer, turning around.
Enjoy the rest of holidayz.
lightning,
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POI THEO(R)IST
143 posts
Location: Broomfield, Colorado
*Cries* I just learned that prayer tosses are impossible on staff. They're just so friggin cool!
"Watch those explosions in the sky and you'll go blind, but not this time. Will you live in hope or dark desire? What can I say? F*ck love give me fire." ~Cities Of Night by Blaqk Audio (Davey Havok)
Proudly MCRmy
member86 posts
what are prayer tosses and why are they impossible on staff?
Practise Harry, practise
143 posts
Location: Broomfield, Colorado
A prayer toss is a form of toss where you hold it at the thirds horizontal and then you go to toss it, sliding one hand to meet the other. On the release you wind up with your hands above your head in a prayer position...hence the name.
The wick means you either have to release early or it goes waaaay off course, and releasing early dosn't look nearly as cool cause it stays too low and totally misses the point of the toss...a high super slow half-rotation that is nearly vertical if done right.
"Watch those explosions in the sky and you'll go blind, but not this time. Will you live in hope or dark desire? What can I say? F*ck love give me fire." ~Cities Of Night by Blaqk Audio (Davey Havok)
Proudly MCRmy
member86 posts
Ok, is there a vid of it somewhere, because I don't get it.
Practise Harry, practise
143 posts
Location: Broomfield, Colorado
Narp...It's a colour guard toss, so you're not gonna find a vid of it here. *Goes fishing for video on guard web site* I can't embed it here cause it's stupid, but here's the URL.
https://www.legacybands.org/performance/WinterGuard/2004DeadorAlive.html
Hokay so...in the beginning when the flags come out and do all the background work while the rifles are doing all their stuff downstage, watch closely. This is in the first verse part. When the song says, "It's all the same, only the names will change/ every day it seems we're wasting away." On the word "away" the flags do a version of the toss that's back-handed and over-rotated.
Then if you sit for a bit and watch the sidelines for the people getting rifles, you will see the official, normal version of a prayer toss. They'll all move into a line running down the stage left chunk of the floor. As they start to go across the floor, you'll notice them raise their guns, bring them back down, and then when they bring them up again they'll release the toss in a prayer position. That is a prayer toss.
"Watch those explosions in the sky and you'll go blind, but not this time. Will you live in hope or dark desire? What can I say? F*ck love give me fire." ~Cities Of Night by Blaqk Audio (Davey Havok)
Proudly MCRmy
member86 posts
I don't get it, I'm sorry. I can't isolate the move you're talking about and I can't see what's happening properly as the vid focusses on the group performance as a whole. Awesome performance it is, but I'll go research it some more. Thanks for the trouble.
Practise Harry, practise
no i couldnt see the prayer toss your on about, jus cos they toss it whilst holding on with both hands doesnt make it a toss from prayer postion
if you want to work out what it is, jus look for any videos of prayer moves, prob be easiest to understand it from a prayer fishtail
think if you were doing a normal fishtail how u can toss from that back into a fishtail, same method for prayer
"the geeks have got you" - Gayle
ooh ooh new move, yay
Playing with Ninja Dave yesterday we came up with a new doubles contact move, inside butterfly conveyor belt (as in inside butterfly, not inside planes). After you've placed the staff doing the conveyor in, you need to get the other staff behind you pretty quick to get out. Also thought of a couple of (still theoretical) variations, after you've placed into the conveyor you sould be able to fishtail that staff while spinning 1 beats with the other in the other direction, yay 1 handed butterfly fishtails (almost).
The other one to make it a full conveyor involves throwing the staff in your hand to the other hand at the same time as you place the staff doing the conveyor from hand to hand. Because its in butterfly, the throw is really hard to get the timing right.
"Don't do it naked!"
sounds nice dude... can't wait to see that
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
Its been a good week for moves, probably cos of the sunshine
Extending turning halos into horizontal angel rolls and minimum steves (neck side) with 1 beat direction changes at the elbow.
You min steve to the elbow, 1 beat direction change back to H. angel and turn 1/3 circle (like a 360 halo) then 1 beat direction change back to min steve at the other elbow and turn. Repeat.
Managed 1 full revolution so far but they should be continuous.
"Don't do it naked!"
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
To start turn with cutback from palmspin, rather directly form the forearm.
lightning,
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POI THEO(R)IST
I've been dabbling with some inside steave stuff. Let the staff walk down my wrist then forearm then upper arm then start over. also that same inside steve thing but after upper arm bring it over to a neck wrap where i can do back spin or back up the oppisite arm. let me know if that makes sence
O.B.E.S.E.
Owned by Mynci!
Mag's "Limbo" and can get going straight round the neck onto the back in one fluid rotation.
Im very happy with myself and it looks sick! :-D
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
So i just got back from a weekend in Oakland, CA. Hanging out with Greg, Noel, Elias, and the rest of the spinagogue crew.
I learned:
Reverse Fishtails
Full Steve
All sorts of rotors/cleaned up rotors
my continuous halos are much cleaner
conveyer to halo continuous with multiple variations
and a crap ton of variations.
Well worth it and highly reccomended. Those guys are teh cool.
O.B.E.S.E.
Owned by Mynci!
Written by: Poje
Those guys are teh cool.
+1
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
finally... right to left angel roll (needs tidying)
and some other halo-y stuff which involves turning lots
Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant
Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.
'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi
Mostly FeiCha stuff - like the forearm pop/roll to minimal beat steve to continuous angel rolls (most I've achieved is about 7 angel rolls in a row)
"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock
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Location: limbo, Australia
it's all been about the doubles recently... pick up the contact staff every now and then, but it's just not doing for me as much as making pretty patterns with the doubles...
mostly playing with flowers... forwards, backwards, one forward/one backward... front plane (thanks yuta - yes, I know he's poi, but some of the stuff he was teaching at 2uberoz has translated very nicely to doubles)... trying to become familiar enough with moving in any direction, that it all becomes 2nd-nature, so's I can concentrate more on the movement, than the spinning...
still have a lil play with antispin stuff, some, but it's not quite working out as well for me...
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
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conveyor belt - through halo - conveyor belt *dances*
"They say it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile; thus smiling is for pansies" - The Short Gorilla
"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast" - Ace Rimmer
I gave up and came back to it months and months later...
And now I can do fishtails!!!
Woohoooooooo
Skatto
"Fly like a mouse,
Run like a cushion,
Be the small bookcase."
For goodness sake, don't aggravate the otters!!!
woot woot, isn't it cool how that works?
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Owned by Mynci!
SILVER Memberthere's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
hmmm... ok, that's now my new pedagogic technique for learning fishtails, too... I give up...
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
I taught Mr Majestik fishtails yesterday. He got them in less than two minutes...
B*stard... Either that or I'm a good teacher!
"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock
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