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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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OK go me uni....

I have to say its the hardest thing ive ever tried to learn, harder than contact juggling (at least i got a few moves right away) harder than poi by a huge streak.

I got across my kitchen a couple of times, and landed on my ass once. It will do for today.

peace

T

This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti

Nice one Richee, and cheers for the credit at the end... I also wish I could read it!

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I have to say its the hardest thing ive ever tried to learn



hardest thing you've ever tried to learn in one day you mean?

i bet you'll be riding forwards it within a week


cole. x

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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible

Isolations with my arms folded.

No, seriously - I have video!

~peace is a fire~

Definition of poi- A Hawaiian food made from the tuber of the taro that is cooked, pounded to a paste, and fermented.

Ahnold discussing poi - "It is naht a toober!"

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Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi

<Coughs> Ahem.. Okay, you're all too good for me!

It's not a straightjacket (I prefer to call those 's)

It's arms folded in a kinda hip-hop stylee, iykwim.
(One over, one under)

..doing a 3-breat weave with doubles (extra turns) each side
to be specific.

I guess this is similar to what you mean by crossers?

Only thought of it on monday, last night got stealth vid'd
and it was sooo clean - I think it's a beautiful move, and
will probably be a fav for some time..

Finally I feel like I can do isolations! Hurrah!!

Now, Isolated Hugs... You gotta be kidding

(It's gonna look pretty awful, no? )

~peace is a fire~

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its got pretty pictures, love the one for Jedi, made me giggle





It also has the technical term 'Wibble' in it!







(I'm guessing that's not a Czech word..)

~peace is a fire~

heh.. yeah, I was joking to a degree when I said isolated straightjacket. I can conceptualize the move, but can't make the concept look pretty... talk about torso thrashing with small poi

Definition of poi- A Hawaiian food made from the tuber of the taro that is cooked, pounded to a paste, and fermented.

Ahnold discussing poi - "It is naht a toober!"

Hey, with inversions and such like I'm sure someone
must be able to actually properly cross their arms
(proper folded, so if someone pulled your hands...
you'd make a knot!) whilst still spinning!!

Hmmm, I think it would be quite a stretch to keep
going...

~peace is a fire~

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...

flowers. of any sort.
hyperlooping is starting to come together (arsn, you rock )
started playing with stalls a little bit.

I've discovered that flags make sure everything you do, you do really well. It's all well and good fudging through a 5bt weave with poi, but when flags are being spun, you need to do it spot on

"beg beg grovel beg grovel"
"master"
--FSA

"There was an arse there, i couldn't help myself"
--Rougie

Flags are fun aren't they? I recently stumbled into their fun by dropping my sock poi into a pair of pillow cases.. I loved it.. need to make me some real flag poi now

Definition of poi- A Hawaiian food made from the tuber of the taro that is cooked, pounded to a paste, and fermented.

Ahnold discussing poi - "It is naht a toober!"

More useless information courtesy of Rev...
Confusing the masses, one post at a time...
"Obviously, you're not a golfer.."- The Dude
"Buy the ticket... Take the ride..." -Raoul Duke
"FEMA has never done catastrophe planning..."-Michael Brown

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I'll get there too late if I shorten my stride, I'll get there too soon if I find me a ride, I'll never move forward if I try to hide this path that I've troden one step at a time.

Let's turn those old bridges we crossed into ashes.
We'll blaze a new trail,
and torch the rough patches.

-Me

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"I'm not a bad driver, I just panic when theres other cars around" - Sarah

Continuous shower-back-scrubbing stops...

~peace is a fire~

lots of beautiful wraps (mainly forearm of opposite arm, or swinging R/L poi over/under L/R upper arm to wrap on upper arm of R/L, btb wrapping, double wrapping (ie both poi wrap around wrist of opposite hand at the same time, and also holding hands together so the poi spiral around your hands until they hit them and you twist your wrists slightly in the opposite direction and they unwind, then rolling into a weave-flower), and beginning to get into lots of foot-wraps).



(stalls are a huge part of wrappping it, i think, because you begin to have a greater control over what your poi is doing, and IMO i think the control needed to stall a poi is very similiar to the control needed to wrap artfully..).. so i am doing lots of stalls, n stalls-to-wrapping combos, and i dance about a lot when i spin, lots of transitions from weaves to butterflies, btb weaves n waist wraps (still trying to get butterfly wraist wraps), and throwing my poi (usually my R poi, but sometimes my L) (even a R poi throw during a rev. 3bt-btb!, throwing the R poi on its 2nd beat on the L side btb so that it curls up and over your head for your R hand to grab and take back into the 3btb on the L side again (the L poi having down its 2 revolutions on the R side) - make sense??



5-beat split-time thread-the-needle (and rev), straight-jacket butterflies (and crossover SJB's, too), air-wraps (mainly just 1 revolution or 2), hyperloops (fwd n rev weave - still trying to get bf hyperloops), isolations (mainly weave n buzzsaw), 4-beat corkscrews (weave n butterfly (i forget what the butterfly version of corkscrew (in the horiz. plane) is called..))..



i think that'll do.

those that know, dont say. those that say, dont know.

If ther are any poi spinners out there in the sydney area and wana meet up, e-mail meh at benpietershawke(at)bigpond(dot)com

Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible

listen to your poi. :P
they are the true teachers...

those that know, dont say. those that say, dont know.