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Kinda scared about starting this thread cos i have a bad history of starting thread that already exist BUT i have done an extensive search and im pretty sure that this thread is completely new!!

i was just out in the garden having a bit of a spin, and i thought "hmmm i wonder what other people are trying to learn at the moment" and decided it would be agreat insight into the future of Poi and where people were heading, and serve as inspiration to people who are a bit stuck. There is the obvious "oooh ive just learnt this" thread stuck at the top, but i thought it'd be good to hear what problems people are having with the moves while they are learning them, and how the over come them so other people can look and discover ways they might not have thought of.

so start your replies with "This Week I Am Mostly Learning....."

This Week I Am Mostly Learning.....3bt btb weaves, reverse5bt weave, and trying to work out 6bt TTN aswell as forward7bt weave. Problems?? loads, but these moves ( ):
3btbtb weave, i keep hitting myself in the head, but im slowly getting the timing down,
Reverse 5bt, my wrists dont seem to like it, still working on timing, again keep hitting myself in the head
6btTTN again, the wrists are complaining, and the timing keeps going off
Forward7bt, i got a few beats the otehr night but i lost it now

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ive been working on lots of upwards stalls with both hands. a move that was christened the midairwrap (where you throw both Poi they airwrap, untangle and then you catch them ). another move where you kind of do a suicide airwrap and then throw the whole tangle so it rotates around 180 degrees, and then you catch it and exit the tangle. lots of wibbling stuff aswell...

Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no

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am getting the continuos buzzsaw hyperloop style tricks going now,

just trying to be able to turn 180 to keep it going in the other direction, as i can only keep it continuous when the pois are spinning towards me. but when they are ive got it solid,

antispins with left arm not. quite . . . .there

lots of legwork - dunno the terminology!

ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. . . . . . . . . . . . . ZAP

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Currently working on buzzsaw flowers (spin/antispin) which I reckon is including one more point of rotation than normal flowers. Move the buzzsaw in a circle then make each circle a petal of a flower/compound circle.

Butterfly stalls into same direction stalls and back again.

An inverse variation of the antispin, butterfly box type move. Not sure if this has a name or if I'm describing it right. It's the one where you are in wall plane with arms in front of you one directly above the other. Poi spinning in split time butterfly so the Poi heads meet when the hit the bottom/top of their circle. Push your arms from 1 side to the other, switch the one that is oon top and send them back. Your hands should be making a rectangular shape.

The other thing I'm doing is starting to write down all the things I do with Poi then work out their variations. This, I realised yesterday, will make it much easier to link moves together by matching up the variations

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Fast, late deliveries!

I�ve also been trying to get a butterfly box type move but my arms refuse to do it - I�m hoping they will be persuaded though practice.

Various stalls� grrr � well there has been some progress but still need to get them clean.

My new holy grail at the moment (formally btb weave which I got couple of weeks ago) is a continuous hyperloop thing but I think that�s a long way off as I�ve only just got the hang of a basic hyperloop!

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."

You should have said, I would have been more than happy to give you some pointers while I was up your way. Mind you I was probably too busy doing silly throws with Chutney...

Next time maybe

G.

You can spend hours playing with minutes!

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Fast, late deliveries!

I feel bad hassling people to teach me stuff all the time. Next time sounds good tho
the throws were looking really good

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."

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Burn, as the fire calls us by name...

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my confidence. i have realised that when im happy and relaxed i can do stuff i didnt think physically possible oh yeah and getting into btb without looking like a crazy lady :P

if i could be a busy busy bee...

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"to a man whose only tool is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail." Abraham Maslow

Nothing wrong with that. In fact, I need to do more of the basics. I got so wrapped up on btb waistwraps, Im no longer capable of doing a simple 2bt chase.

"to a man whose only tool is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail." Abraham Maslow

The nite is nearly over, day is almost here. Romans 13:12

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then i had to duck. realy fast.



sorry that made me giggle - completely what i am like at the moment! i hit myself in the cheekbone with my Poi a few weeks ago whilst learning to corkscrew.

As many of you know i am working of my 5 beat weave *sobs.. i just can't get it* also working on alternate extended reels.

(seem to be more natural to staff than Poi.. )

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