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479 posts
Location: London, United Kingdom
Ever spent MONTHS perfecting some difficult nitty-gritty technical move only to find that nobody even noticed it and instead everyone loves it when you just throw a staff in the air and catch it again???
So for any of your toys:
What are your alltime favourite cheap tricks?
old hand
717 posts
Location: Bristol, England
Spin It faster!
Throw it Higher!
On Fire!
With Large Breasts!
And a bum Wiggle!
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277 posts
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Personally, I think steel wool poi has to be the ultimate cheap trick. Colored poi is a not-too-distant second.
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playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
"Buzzsaw!"
"Now bend over backwards!"
"Spin Faster!"
"Jump over them!"
"do a throw!"
and of course, you can always burn yourself, that gets everyones attention
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Scientist!
578 posts
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
One handed butterfly whilst removing parts of your clothing :O
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1,365 posts
Location: Manchester, England (UK)
turn round when you spin, do lots of turns, don't give people the chance to work out what your doing.
oh, yeah and shake that ass!
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enthusiast
249 posts
Location: Exeter, United Kingdom
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One handed butterfly whilst removing parts of your clothing :O
THATS a good one
old hand
717 posts
Location: Bristol, England
Are you volunteering?
Would like to see that!
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master of disaster
3,354 posts
Location: New York, USA
ground circles far and away
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
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addict
475 posts
Location: Van Diemans Land, Australia
The Ultimate Juggling cheap trick is this.
You know when you are doing just a three ball cascade then you throw the balls in a two on the outside, one in the middle thing. "pillars?"
like this
O O <----- up and down at the same time
, O <----- up and down on opposite beat to the other two (sorry about Ascii)
Well. What you do is you grab the ball on the far left with your left hand. Juggle the middle and right ball with one hand and just raise and lower the left hand.
If you get what i mean then you understand. Its just so cheezy
I really suck at describing things
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Pooh-Bah
2,109 posts
Location: Philadelphia, PA - USA
Theres always the classic butterfly -> knees -> lay backwards. Really common cheap trick.
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479 posts
Location: London, United Kingdom
Two themes seem to be emerging here.
1). Power tools.. and..
2). Lack of clothes
My god you're a SICK bunch
3,638 posts
Location: Brum / Dorset / Fairy Land
wiggle........... and grin................
..............for some reason it doesn't seem to matter what/how I spin if i remember to do that
on a more serious note - weave flower into buzzsaw........ so so natural and makes everyone go 'woooo!'.
Geologists do it in the dirt................
[psylocibin fingerbobe].
479 posts
Location: London, United Kingdom
I'll avoid it until I've had a bit more practice thanks, I find that buzzsaws are sysnonomous with unplanned castrations.
So with that in mind, I'll start with something easy first... like an eggwhisk
ie. the old fashioned manual ones:
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Pooh-Bah
1,872 posts
Location: Canada
Weave flower into buzzsaw?? now why didn't I think of that. I've been doing it the other way,, buzzsaw into weave flower, now I'll combine the two and a new combo is born.
But my all time favourite cheap trick has got to be kicking the poi
1,376 posts
Location: London, UK
With fire poi double stalls from each side UTL so they stop right below your bits. Tends to make blokes wince and you look braver than you are
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Location: Chester, UK
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3,638 posts
Location: Brum / Dorset / Fairy Land
I remember when a corkscrew was 'techy'.............
Geologists do it in the dirt................
still can't believe it's not butter
6,978 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
..what's a corkscrew?
ps staff rocks da boat... :nods at self:
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water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia
fire eating:
biting down, letting go. once u can do it, its easy and is impressive.
holding it on your tounge.
bending down on one knee
theres always fans and fingers, they always look really pretty for pros and beginers
cheers, pete
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Location: New Orleans, For now, USA
Written by: ImmortalAngel
One handed butterfly whilst removing parts of your clothing :O
Electro Ponce!
383 posts
Location: Hull!, United Kingdom
i can't believe non-of the hullians have said
"bigger, faster, less control" yet
What're you looking at?
I assume you're being rhetorical?
What're you callin' me!?
Carpal \'Tunnel
4,191 posts
Location: Sihanoukville, cambodia
Buzzsaw...
squat up and down...a bit of thrusting and wiggleng with fire in your crotch...works a treat for the boys in the audience every time!
Make love to that fire baby!!!
Carpal \'Tunnel
2,666 posts
Location: Preston, United Kingdom
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"bigger, faster, less control"
Have you been secretly waching me spin?
One handed butterfly whilest smoking a fag
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Electro Ponce!
383 posts
Location: Hull!, United Kingdom
Written by: Brit_JoeWritten by: ]"bigger, faster, less control"[/quote
Have you been secretly waching me spin?
One handed butterfly whilest smoking a fag
damn, i've been found out!!
i love the oh-so-casual one handed butterfly!What're you looking at?
I assume you're being rhetorical?
What're you callin' me!?
veteran
1,286 posts
Location: My House, United Kingdom
*sigh* tis true tis true, i earned £18 while waiting for a bus at 11:30 at night just doing fountains
mind you, really really techy stuff generally looks crappy, it may be hard to do, but look good and flow well it does not watch Dervishly Yers, great example of nontechy stuff looking amazing, also Yuta's first vid, again, nothing really more techy than antispin flowers (cant believe i jsut said that) but it the control and timing and the movment within the circles that make it beautiful, not just standing there spinning.
Remember all the audience really sees are floaty balls of light, they dont look, nor think about what your hands are doing, or how twisted your arms are, all they are bothered about is the prety lights making patterns.
the way i think about it is people dont look at fireworks and go "Ooooh
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Stream Entrant
2,829 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Staff
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Ultimate cheep trick
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surely to spin faster on a pattern is harder?
surely more speed nesssecitates more control to execute the trick properly,
'i havespent as long learning how to catch high fast spinning throws on singles at night as i have done on rhd's 3 staff flat shower.
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i think people gety very stuck up about other peoples styles i think the faster,the slower the smoother,the sporadic the better..........its all good in my view.as long as its fun
as for the crowd,try and judge them less for once we all had that first time WOW fire spinning is cool to watch experience and cared little for technical wizardry.
my favourite shows combine both technical and crowd pleasing tricks
tim
614 posts
very well put skinky
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Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
I AM a cheap trick.
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Location: melbournia australia
in contact juggling 2 things always get a wow:
a simple butterfly and edsons enigma isolations lol.. possibly the most simple moves imaginable
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