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the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
Posted:
We were rehearsing our "mirror" show yesterday, I with my practice poi and it got off to a bumpy start. We stopped and Prom started picking on me. it seems that without thinking I switched the poi around to opposite hands and then they flowed much better. I picked up my show poi and checked them, realising I do the same thing there. It's like I can't spin without a specific poi on it's designated hand. The only reason I noticed it is because Prom pointed it out, as it seems to be something completely ingrained in my subconcious.That and I also always wear this arm band I have, no matter what type of show I am doing. I don't know if it's good luck or what but it is definately a show habit.Anyone else suffer from these oddities? Little habits you do to get ready for show or whatever???Just curious.------------------Pele Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir..."I prefer not to go where there is a path but to blaze a new one!"
We were rehearsing our "mirror" show yesterday, I with my practice poi and it got off to a bumpy start. We stopped and Prom started picking on me. it seems that without thinking I switched the poi around to opposite hands and then they flowed much better. I picked up my show poi and checked them, realising I do the same thing there. It's like I can't spin without a specific poi on it's designated hand. The only reason I noticed it is because Prom pointed it out, as it seems to be something completely ingrained in my subconcious.That and I also always wear this arm band I have, no matter what type of show I am doing. I don't know if it's good luck or what but it is definately a show habit.Anyone else suffer from these oddities? Little habits you do to get ready for show or whatever???Just curious.------------------Pele Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir..."I prefer not to go where there is a path but to blaze a new one!"
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
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140 posts
Location: sidney, bc, canada
140 posts
Location: sidney, bc, canada
Posted:
whenever i have glow sticksthe aqua one is on the left and the green is on the rightand when i spin with fire it doesnt matter which poi is in each hand because for some reasion i usially end up with clumpy melted hair..... wait i lie!!! im much better then that... most of the time
whenever i have glow sticksthe aqua one is on the left and the green is on the rightand when i spin with fire it doesnt matter which poi is in each hand because for some reasion i usially end up with clumpy melted hair..... wait i lie!!! im much better then that... most of the time
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829 posts
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
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Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Posted:
quote:and see...my friends make fun of me when i have to put the red stick in my right hand and the yellow in the left. It just throws me off...everyone has their own little quarks that either prepares them mentally, or just for superstition..Hell Micheal Jordon wore his College shorts underneath his Bulls Pants ever pro game he ever played...it worked for him.------------------"Only the warrior that hears the call will know when to leave, Where to go" -unknown
the aqua one is on the left and the green is on the right
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
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140 posts
Location: sidney, bc, canada
140 posts
Location: sidney, bc, canada
Posted:
yaahhhh!!!im special enough to be quoted!!!another thing... i like the red beaming poi on the left and the red beaming poi on the right but if they are reversed it totally messes me up
yaahhhh!!!im special enough to be quoted!!!another thing... i like the red beaming poi on the left and the red beaming poi on the right but if they are reversed it totally messes me up
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162 posts
Location: Springfield, MA - USA
162 posts
Location: Springfield, MA - USA
Posted:
Yeah... I've experienced that kind of thing too. Sometimes it gets on my nerves so I try to switch stuff around on purpose to try learn to compensate more.Just a side-note, I'm not a pyschologist or anything, but from talking to different people, and my own observations, I tend to think that a lot of the people that get deeper into stuff like this (poi, juggling, etc.) have some obsessive-compulsive tendancies a little.I don't mean to say that we're all strangely obsessed (even though we probably are, but that's another story..hehe). Just that I think there tends to be a bit of comfort in the repetitions of practice, and an easier time of recognizing patterns and breaking out and falling into them.Then again, maybe it is just me...
Yeah... I've experienced that kind of thing too. Sometimes it gets on my nerves so I try to switch stuff around on purpose to try learn to compensate more.Just a side-note, I'm not a pyschologist or anything, but from talking to different people, and my own observations, I tend to think that a lot of the people that get deeper into stuff like this (poi, juggling, etc.) have some obsessive-compulsive tendancies a little.I don't mean to say that we're all strangely obsessed (even though we probably are, but that's another story..hehe). Just that I think there tends to be a bit of comfort in the repetitions of practice, and an easier time of recognizing patterns and breaking out and falling into them.Then again, maybe it is just me...
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214 posts
Location: Manchester
214 posts
Location: Manchester
Posted:
my old poi were different colours, (one red UV, one yellow UV). I always had to have the red in the right hand. but now i;ve made a set that are both yellow UV so, as with my fire poi, if i cant tell the difference between them i dont seem to care.
my old poi were different colours, (one red UV, one yellow UV). I always had to have the red in the right hand. but now i;ve made a set that are both yellow UV so, as with my fire poi, if i cant tell the difference between them i dont seem to care.
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52 posts
Location: germany
52 posts
Location: germany
Posted:
same with me.i use loops on my poi,so it's like wearing shoes.
same with me.i use loops on my poi,so it's like wearing shoes.
frank bentzin
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