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DurbsBRONZE Member
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England


Posted:
As in, when you just pick up your poi and you just "spin" them - what do you do whilst thinking about tricks or idly spinning them?

I always resort/return to low-reels - no idea why. I practically never do 3-beat weaves anymore, if I want to "fill" space, it is always low reels, likewise when I first pick up poi, it's the first "move" i'll do and if I'm talking whilst spinning - again it's
always low reels smile

As for why - I'm think it's because it just feels really nice, keeps the planes neat (in performing), it's easy to turn with (but then so are weaves...), doesn't interfere with eye-level so I can talk over the poi and meh - I don't know. But I've been doing it for years now...

Just wondered what everyone else does - and how they think it reflects their styles...

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pricklyleafSILVER Member
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1,365 posts
Location: Manchester, England (UK)


Posted:
whoot, me first!

3 beat weave when im moving and low reels when Im talking, i love low reels too, and i love turning them!

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_khan_SILVER Member
old hand
768 posts
Location: San Francisco, California, USA


Posted:
Let me also chime in on my love of the reels...only when I'm moving though and it is also usually the first move I do when starting a spin. My "having a conversation" move though, is isolated underhand ttn.

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=Flashpoint=SILVER Member
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2,722 posts
Location: in the interwebs..., United Kingdom


Posted:
Yes on the low reels, but i tend to just go fwd3bt to rev3bt and back again in random lazy circles... Occasionally I'll throw a windmill in if I get bored...

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Gav486SILVER Member
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122 posts
Location: United Kingdom


Posted:
What kind of low reels? Butterfly ones for me.

If I'm not doing that, I'm doing air wraps. Just the same air wrap over and over; like twiddling my thumbs...

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TheBovrilMonkeySILVER Member
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2,629 posts
Location: High Wycombe, England


Posted:
Chalk up another for the hip reels.

More specifically, follow time same direction reels, none of this newfangled butterfly or split time malarky for me wink

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MillenniuMPLATINUM Member
Hyperloops suck
595 posts
Location: USA


Posted:
Reels! So comfortable.

DuncGOLD Member
playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom


Posted:
And I hardly ever do reels rolleyes

I don't think I have one, but maybe I've just not noticed before. Durbs, I've span with you, what's mine? Sometimes like Gav I'll do air wraps over and over "like twiddling my thumbs" ubblol What a perfect explanation!
Iso weaves are nice but more of a current move than a base move.
Barrell rolls perhaps?

umm....I'm stumped. Dunno rolleyes

Let's relight this forum ubblove


oliSILVER Member
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2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom


Posted:
i have several, depending on my state of mind, airwraps qre pretty good ones to do while having conversations,, but i usually start off in butterfly tthread the needles if im picking up the poi from cold.

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MikeIconGOLD Member
Pooh-Bah
2,109 posts
Location: Philadelphia, PA - USA


Posted:
Reels here too... Switched from the weave ever since I learnt it.

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IcerSILVER Member
just a shadow of my former self...
205 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand


Posted:
typically when i start cold i do low split butterflies or when im talkin usually a slow lazy forward 5bt...not sure why, but i find it more comfortable than a 3bt.

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PeleBRONZE Member
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6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA


Posted:
Written by: TheBovrilMonkey


Chalk up another for the hip reels.

More specifically, follow time same direction reels, none of this newfangled butterfly or split time malarky for me wink




ditto

Though sometimes I opt for a hip level butterfly while talking, or basic escalator while thinking (slowly move one poi up one side of the body while the other goes down) just cause it's pretty, easy and dramatic if I am performing.

Pele
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Analemmaenthusiast
384 posts
Location: West LA


Posted:
base move ... hmm ... getting on one leg ... fall over ... try again ... fall over ... and spin again umm

reflects my style ubbloco wink

andy


PS: somehow I am afraid that no one is going to sign up for my classes at ueberpoi ubbcrying

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Analemmaenthusiast
384 posts
Location: West LA


Posted:
btw . . . just wondering what kind of atomic hyperloop Revs "base" move would be ubbidea hug


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strugzBRONZE Member
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3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom


Posted:
Written by: Dunc



umm....I'm stumped. Dunno rolleyes




Dude yours is definatley isolations, either buzzsaw or weave, its the first thing you do believe me wink

i say that coz every bit of footage i have of you thats what your doing ubblol

As for me - its butterflys, with stalls left right up down, whever they stop........ smile

Good thread Durbs, id never really thought much about it weavesmiley

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colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
mills mess smile

what?

oh right yeah, poi... redface

butterfly hip reels are definitely the one - the poi don't cross your line of sight and you can face the person you're talking to all the time.

2bt weaves also sit nicely on your hip whilst having a chat.

when i'm thinking hard but still spinning (like those few seconds of thought before you go on to try another new movement), split-time wheel plane side circles are very comfy smile

the move i tend to fall back into when i'm not thinking at all are front waistwraps with an extra circle on the right.
weird.

good thread mr durbs.


cole. x

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Pink...?BRONZE Member
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6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom


Posted:
Definately Hip Reels... not butterfly ones though, just normal, standard hip reels :

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StoneGOLD Member
Stream Entrant
2,829 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia


Posted:
outward hip reels smile


which I think are different to butterfly because they don’t cross.

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flidBRONZE Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,136 posts
Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom


Posted:
3 beat weave, really really fast. No, wait, I'm not american am i? ubblol hug



thread the needle weave, nice slow and relaxed smile

elastaaddict
645 posts
Location: wishing to be in Rio


Posted:
I had to think about this a lot, because although I'm also a natural reeler and airwrap thumb-twidler, I also go though phases of idle moves and it depends where i am... rolleyes

used to always do:
small corkskrew in one hand
various stop wraps
isolations

currently always mixture of:
pendulums and isolations plus occasional reels

great thread durbs smile

there's nothing quite as fulfilling as a tasty airwrap

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.Morph.SILVER Member
addict
669 posts
Location: Lancashire, UK


Posted:
Another hip-reeler...mixed up with hand-cuff wraps & airwraps.

weavesmiley

Trippie HippieBRONZE Member
old hand
733 posts
Location: Bewildered state of nothingness, United Kingdom


Posted:
Never posted in the poi section before....
Mine would be, erm, Oh! isolated buzz saw thing, its a buzzsaw, infront of you only side ways on, as in runs parrell with your body. If that make any sence at all!!
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DurbsBRONZE Member
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England


Posted:
Er - for all those people who've said "buttefly low reels" - I think you'll find those are called "low waves" wink

Reels aren't butterflies rolleyes



Right - I'm going to see if I can turn this into a poll smile

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colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
what do you need a poll (pole?) for?



next you'll be saying a cross-follow isn't a weave... wink





cole. x

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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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RevBRONZE Member
Bastard Newbie Messiah
1,269 posts
Location: Apparently lost in my ego, USA


Posted:
Written by: I love Texas


btw . . . just wondering what kind of atomic hyperloop Revs "base" move would be ubbidea hug


lolsign




I can't even do atomic hyperloops.. lol.. so I guess I can't use them for a base.. I do reels a lot... I don't know if I would call them my base move.. I mean I use inversions as much as I use reels, but I think its mainly because of how versatile they are.. I mean I can do a ton of things with each of them, so they provide a nice base to fall back on.. and since they are transition moves, they really help morph in and out of whatever I am doing/ want to do.. I've tried really hard to break myself of just wraps when I'm bored, inbetween patterns, or talking..

but to answer the question specifically, I just use reel or inversion combinations.. its not s the same thing over and over, and it keeps me occupied without thinking.. whihc freres me to talk without getting a glowstick in the face..

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


Posted:
Oh Cole, you know you can't use club spinning terminology for poi.

You need to follow the strict "Whatever name my crew made up for the move when we were drunk" system for poi terms. wink

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


RevBRONZE Member
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1,269 posts
Location: Apparently lost in my ego, USA


Posted:
I'm telling you nyc. people name moves after what they look or feel like... that way they can either remember the move by only remembering the name.. or they can remember the name by just doing the move.. wink keep it simple,.. lol...

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colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
yeah, you're right man.

i got that triple gainer *nailed* last night - must have been down to the heinekinspiration wink


cole. x

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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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DuncGOLD Member
playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom


Posted:
Written by: strugz


Dude yours is definatley isolations, either buzzsaw or weave, its the first thing you do believe me wink

i say that coz every bit of footage i have of you thats what your doing ubblol





Really? That's funny cuz my iso buzzsaw really sucks compared to weave umm

Let's relight this forum ubblove


infinitemember
110 posts
Location: ashland OR


Posted:
I like to bounce both poi alternatly from one forearm to another, Isolated TTN, or same time TTN. Mostly split time waist circles I guess.

dont make peoples heads turn, give them whiplash.


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


Posted:
I mostly resort to the "NYC"... which is a complicated move that entails leaving my poi in the trunk of my car for 6 months and then whining that I suck.

Unfortunately, it's not a move that can be taught.

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


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