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Posted:
does anyone else find that when you're playing with your toys that you can try and get one particular trick for ages and ages then just suddenly click and then its there, you can do it all day
i find this extremely annoying because its unexplainable, or is it.......any answers?
does anyone else find that when you're playing with your toys that you can try and get one particular trick for ages and ages then just suddenly click and then its there, you can do it all day
i find this extremely annoying because its unexplainable, or is it.......any answers?
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There is a waiting list for the new trick fairy. You must be patient.
There is a waiting list for the new trick fairy. You must be patient.
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Posted:
We were talking about this. My input:
I seem to suddenly get a trick, or a move after practising for ages. But what confuses me is the fact that i seem to do nothing differently but i can suddenly do the move!
For instance in juggling, i'll drop the balls trying to do the tick for ages, then suddenly i would catch them! But i wouldn't have done anything differently!
We were talking about this. My input:
I seem to suddenly get a trick, or a move after practising for ages. But what confuses me is the fact that i seem to do nothing differently but i can suddenly do the move!
For instance in juggling, i'll drop the balls trying to do the tick for ages, then suddenly i would catch them! But i wouldn't have done anything differently!
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answers for that, um nope
answers for that, um nope
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seems to happen to me when I stop thinking about it and just let it be.
seems to happen to me when I stop thinking about it and just let it be.
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Posted:
I think it gets "lost" between the conscious and subconscious. You're working on a new move,,,and not getting it, maybe you're getting frustrated which only makes things worse. You put down your poi, or spin moves you know how to do, then you come back to the move you're trying to learn, and hopefully you're that much closer to nailing it.
You're spinning session ends for the day, you hang up your poi on their gold plated hooks, and go to bed,,,the next morning you head outside, warm up a little and hey....I got it..
My theory is consciously thinking about the move is the first part of learning how to do it subconsciously and sometimes all it takes is a little time for those motions you've been thinking about,,concentrating on,,agonizing over....to make it into your subconscious,,or muscle memory if you will.
Remember when you first learned the three beat weave? "over,,under,,back" you were thinking...but now....you can do it while having a deep philosophical discussion the move is done subconsciously,,your body knows how to do it.
And then,,,you finally get the move you've been sweating over,,,and promptly loose it. maybe you're thinking about it too much,,maybe not enough, but in my opinion, it's lost in that twilight zone between the conscious and subconscious.
I think it gets "lost" between the conscious and subconscious. You're working on a new move,,,and not getting it, maybe you're getting frustrated which only makes things worse. You put down your poi, or spin moves you know how to do, then you come back to the move you're trying to learn, and hopefully you're that much closer to nailing it.
You're spinning session ends for the day, you hang up your poi on their gold plated hooks, and go to bed,,,the next morning you head outside, warm up a little and hey....I got it..
My theory is consciously thinking about the move is the first part of learning how to do it subconsciously and sometimes all it takes is a little time for those motions you've been thinking about,,concentrating on,,agonizing over....to make it into your subconscious,,or muscle memory if you will.
Remember when you first learned the three beat weave? "over,,under,,back" you were thinking...but now....you can do it while having a deep philosophical discussion the move is done subconsciously,,your body knows how to do it.
And then,,,you finally get the move you've been sweating over,,,and promptly loose it. maybe you're thinking about it too much,,maybe not enough, but in my opinion, it's lost in that twilight zone between the conscious and subconscious.
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yep
i'd been trying to do a move for a week, and i was just mucking around while talking to some people, then i did it. yay
yep
i'd been trying to do a move for a week, and i was just mucking around while talking to some people, then i did it. yay
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Posted:
That's almost how I learn new moves.
It took me 3 years to learn the backwards 5 beat weave because my practising of it consisted of picking up the poi, trying it once to see if I could do it, then not trying it again for a couple of weeks.
Eventually, it worked one of the times I picked them up
I'll spend more time on moves that are more interesting, but they still seem to work the same way - it'll be no-where near working for ages, then it'll suddenly click.
That's almost how I learn new moves.
It took me 3 years to learn the backwards 5 beat weave because my practising of it consisted of picking up the poi, trying it once to see if I could do it, then not trying it again for a couple of weeks.
Eventually, it worked one of the times I picked them up
I'll spend more time on moves that are more interesting, but they still seem to work the same way - it'll be no-where near working for ages, then it'll suddenly click.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
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this is something I have relied on for a long long time. As a systems developer i often had situations where the code looked spot on but something was going wrong and I just couldn't track it down. Even the very best coders go through this. I discovered very early that if I spend an hour or two trying to track the bug down with no luck that I just need to take a break and work on something completely unrelated. Then all the sudden like a mac truck it'd hit me.
I started applying this to my everyday life as well. When faced with some sort of delima I research my options and put a lot of energy and focus into finding possible solutions, then let it simmer in my subcon while I do something completely unrelated. One of two thing will inevitably occur. I'll either get hit by the solution or a different unconsidered solution will present itself. I think this phenomenon may be linked with what Budists call non-ado and Jungian syncronicity.
Sort of like not seeing the forest for the trees. YOu try too hard and overlook the solution. Then you relax and the solution finds you...
Grooviness ensues
this is something I have relied on for a long long time. As a systems developer i often had situations where the code looked spot on but something was going wrong and I just couldn't track it down. Even the very best coders go through this. I discovered very early that if I spend an hour or two trying to track the bug down with no luck that I just need to take a break and work on something completely unrelated. Then all the sudden like a mac truck it'd hit me.
I started applying this to my everyday life as well. When faced with some sort of delima I research my options and put a lot of energy and focus into finding possible solutions, then let it simmer in my subcon while I do something completely unrelated. One of two thing will inevitably occur. I'll either get hit by the solution or a different unconsidered solution will present itself. I think this phenomenon may be linked with what Budists call non-ado and Jungian syncronicity.
Sort of like not seeing the forest for the trees. YOu try too hard and overlook the solution. Then you relax and the solution finds you...
Grooviness ensues
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This is due to the "memory" of your muscles. When you try to get your muscle to do something new they need to develop. The more practice you do the more they develop. At this stage it is the conscious part of your brain that is coordinating the muscles. Eventually this becomes an automatic response i.e. you can suddenly do the new move. Automatic responses happen a lot faster than conscious thought processes. Therefore, if you over concentrate you'll mess up. This also explains why someone who can juggle three ball can pick up poi moves more quickly than someone completely new to juggling skills for example reverse cascade using the same muscle sequence as butterfly.
This is due to the "memory" of your muscles. When you try to get your muscle to do something new they need to develop. The more practice you do the more they develop. At this stage it is the conscious part of your brain that is coordinating the muscles. Eventually this becomes an automatic response i.e. you can suddenly do the new move. Automatic responses happen a lot faster than conscious thought processes. Therefore, if you over concentrate you'll mess up. This also explains why someone who can juggle three ball can pick up poi moves more quickly than someone completely new to juggling skills for example reverse cascade using the same muscle sequence as butterfly.
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Posted:
that makes a lot of sense
i've always wondered why, when i learn a new trick, i can do it from muscle memory only, for the 1st few weeks. it takes aaaaages before my brain actually figures out what i'm doing.
i love teaching, but don't ask me to teach a move until i've been doing if for a good while, i really won't be able to explain it at all for the 1st month or so....
been trying to nail the btb waistwrap for a while now, just with socks, but i've never got past the first half (starting at my left hip) kept getting tangled up with the bit behind my back.
last night i just picked them up and for some unknown reason i did about 7 perfect waistwraps in a row.... like i'd been doing it for ages.....
still no idea what i'm doing though... but whatever it is it works
that makes a lot of sense
i've always wondered why, when i learn a new trick, i can do it from muscle memory only, for the 1st few weeks. it takes aaaaages before my brain actually figures out what i'm doing.
i love teaching, but don't ask me to teach a move until i've been doing if for a good while, i really won't be able to explain it at all for the 1st month or so....
been trying to nail the btb waistwrap for a while now, just with socks, but i've never got past the first half (starting at my left hip) kept getting tangled up with the bit behind my back.
last night i just picked them up and for some unknown reason i did about 7 perfect waistwraps in a row.... like i'd been doing it for ages.....
still no idea what i'm doing though... but whatever it is it works
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I get that with every poi move i try. It sucks, but is strangley satisfying at the same time. I used to be only able to do the weave and a spastic version of the butterfly. I left for ages and went back to stuff and train vigourosly. One day I looked at my poi and thought "i remember those" picked em up, an hourlater I had the bacwards weave and a day later i had loads of new moves.
Never had it with staff tho.
I get that with every poi move i try. It sucks, but is strangley satisfying at the same time. I used to be only able to do the weave and a spastic version of the butterfly. I left for ages and went back to stuff and train vigourosly. One day I looked at my poi and thought "i remember those" picked em up, an hourlater I had the bacwards weave and a day later i had loads of new moves.Never had it with staff tho.
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he he he, i think it happens to everyone. i stopped staff for ages because of study then one day i picked it up again and all the things i could never get right suddenly just clicked. it was pretty cool.
he he he, i think it happens to everyone. i stopped staff for ages because of study then one day i picked it up again and all the things i could never get right suddenly just clicked. it was pretty cool.
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I think that it was said by Jujimufu on Trickstutorials.com best;
You just need to take your time, otherwise you'll start trying to hard, get frustrated and get no where.
Or something along those lines. I think this happens alot more in the spinning world (the random aquiring of new moves that is) than most other places. The spinning world is alot more relaxed and loose about things, and drinks alot more tea, than the average person.
if you're having problems with a move, sit down, have a cup of tea and try again later, or just move to another move.
I go through a dozen moves I can't do everyday. One day I'll manage to get one of them, doing nothing differently than the day before, so I'll replace that trick with a new move I can't do yet, and repeat the cycle.
I used to try doing 3 beat BTB weave every night for like half an hour of repeated failure.
I stopped for about a month. Tried it again just because I rememebred I hadn't tried in a while, got it, and got it really well, could do it for a few minutes before I messed up. Went straight from nothing at all for it, to fairly well.
I think that it was said by Jujimufu on Trickstutorials.com best;
You just need to take your time, otherwise you'll start trying to hard, get frustrated and get no where.
Or something along those lines. I think this happens alot more in the spinning world (the random aquiring of new moves that is) than most other places. The spinning world is alot more relaxed and loose about things, and drinks alot more tea, than the average person.
if you're having problems with a move, sit down, have a cup of tea and try again later, or just move to another move.
I go through a dozen moves I can't do everyday. One day I'll manage to get one of them, doing nothing differently than the day before, so I'll replace that trick with a new move I can't do yet, and repeat the cycle.
I used to try doing 3 beat BTB weave every night for like half an hour of repeated failure.
I stopped for about a month. Tried it again just because I rememebred I hadn't tried in a while, got it, and got it really well, could do it for a few minutes before I messed up. Went straight from nothing at all for it, to fairly well.
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yeah well thats just the way it is. you try a new trick and its....
WACK!! OWW!!!!!
WACK!! OWW!!!!!
WACK!! OWW!!!!!
WACK!! OWW!!!!!
WOOSH!! YAY!!!!
yeah well thats just the way it is. you try a new trick and its....
WACK!! OWW!!!!!
WACK!! OWW!!!!!
WACK!! OWW!!!!!
WACK!! OWW!!!!!
WOOSH!! YAY!!!!
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When I was first learning Middle Eastern percussion I would have to recite funny little sentences and stuff to remember the basic rhythms. My hands were clumsy and it was like work. Then after a while the rhythms became like a scaffold or framework with loads of space inside to 'fill' with tricky little riffs and rolls (nearly said spliffs!) Or else I could leave beats out, have a very spacious funky thing going on but always know where I was in relation to the framework.
Now I"m learning poi and I realise that if I put the same time into that as I used into percussion (say an hour a day) that I could stop saying I was just a slow learner and get on with it!!!!
What I am finding frustrating sometimes is that I have some friends who are very fast learners and that makes me feel so inadequate!
When I was first learning Middle Eastern percussion I would have to recite funny little sentences and stuff to remember the basic rhythms. My hands were clumsy and it was like work. Then after a while the rhythms became like a scaffold or framework with loads of space inside to 'fill' with tricky little riffs and rolls (nearly said spliffs!) Or else I could leave beats out, have a very spacious funky thing going on but always know where I was in relation to the framework.
Now I"m learning poi and I realise that if I put the same time into that as I used into percussion (say an hour a day) that I could stop saying I was just a slow learner and get on with it!!!!
What I am finding frustrating sometimes is that I have some friends who are very fast learners and that makes me feel so inadequate!
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hmmm, I have a similar thing where I try a new move and get it first time. Then I lose it completely and suck more than if I'd never got it because I then spend an hour going "how did I get it the first time, did I do it like this? *whack* nope..."
hmmm, I have a similar thing where I try a new move and get it first time. Then I lose it completely and suck more than if I'd never got it because I then spend an hour going "how did I get it the first time, did I do it like this? *whack* nope..."
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I call this a "wa-wa" moment. I'm sure some of you will catch the reference.
When I first saw the title of this thread...well, let's just say my mind's in the gutter! [hangs head in shame]
I call this a "wa-wa" moment. I'm sure some of you will catch the reference.
When I first saw the title of this thread...well, let's just say my mind's in the gutter! [hangs head in shame]
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When I was first learning Middle Eastern percussion I would have to recite funny little sentences and stuff to remember the basic rhythms.
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When I was first learning Middle Eastern percussion I would have to recite funny little sentences and stuff to remember the basic rhythms.
WALK into HARlem SMOKing a REEFer,
SEE how you DANCE while CHEWing BUBblegum,
*I* am LOVEable PEOple will LIKE me,
THIS is HYdrogen, THAT is OXygen.
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i hate not getting moves been trying btb butterfly for a while now and i jst keep getting it wrong in exactly the same way each time - ah well back to cleaning up my planes
i hate not getting moves been trying btb butterfly for a while now and i jst keep getting it wrong in exactly the same way each time - ah well back to cleaning up my planes
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Couldn't agree more, or add anything to what's above. Especially Stout's post up top. Quality stuff.
Couldn't agree more, or add anything to what's above. Especially Stout's post up top. Quality stuff.
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Posted:
something i really hate sooo much is not having neat enough plains to do something
recently ive been trying btb buttterfly weave, i decided my plains werent clear enough on one side so i ran off and practiced alongside a wall to get my plains straighter, it worked when i whent back to trying th btb btterfly weave....once, now i cant get it again, reallly f**ked off at this
something i really hate sooo much is not having neat enough plains to do something
recently ive been trying btb buttterfly weave, i decided my plains werent clear enough on one side so i ran off and practiced alongside a wall to get my plains straighter, it worked when i whent back to trying th btb btterfly weave....once, now i cant get it again, reallly f**ked off at this
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happened to me only last week. was tryin to do a wierd combo, then ended up doing the elusive forward btb weave.
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happened to me only last week. was tryin to do a wierd combo, then ended up doing the elusive forward btb weave.
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i always find ill be trying a trick for days, somtimes even weeks and all i have to show ffor it is bruises, but then one day ill just be sitting infrount of the tv fidgiting as usual and ill find im doing poi with my bhands, ill continue the movement then suddenly realise its the trick ive been trying to do for ages. ill go fetch poi while trying to maintain the hand movement and run oput side and do i with poi and bingo ill have the trick mastered. its so annoying but thats almost how i learn every trick, ill be trying for ages several people will try to teach me and nothing but bruises... then that... grrr!
i always find ill be trying a trick for days, somtimes even weeks and all i have to show ffor it is bruises, but then one day ill just be sitting infrount of the tv fidgiting as usual and ill find im doing poi with my bhands, ill continue the movement then suddenly realise its the trick ive been trying to do for ages. ill go fetch poi while trying to maintain the hand movement and run oput side and do i with poi and bingo ill have the trick mastered. its so annoying but thats almost how i learn every trick, ill be trying for ages several people will try to teach me and nothing but bruises... then that... grrr!
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iyesterday i suddenly got mills mess ith balls. its rather sad cause i've been juggling for 6ish years but i just couldn't get one throw(when the left hand goes back to the left from underneath) but i was siiting down with two hackiesacks practicing and i suddenly figured it out, then did it with three balls perfectly!
hoorah!
iyesterday i suddenly got mills mess ith balls. its rather sad cause i've been juggling for 6ish years but i just couldn't get one throw(when the left hand goes back to the left from underneath) but i was siiting down with two hackiesacks practicing and i suddenly figured it out, then did it with three balls perfectly!
hoorah!
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