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how much is practice, and how much is just the natural abitity of timing and beat and ability.
i dont want to give up... and i dont have the space or chance to practice in a possitive environment...i am sad
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ill be back home soon, ive survived this long.
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*spinning a windmill about a million miles per hour hitting his belly* oowch
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But its so cool to whack on a really upbeat tune that u love and just go for it! Usually you'll mess up one move and in the process discover a new one!!
Thing is though, the more u practise, the better u get. Even if it takes like a month to figure out how to do a backwards weave *hangs head in shame*
you'll get it in the end!! 
Its tru aswell, even if u think u are ultimatly crap, ur mates will be like woooooow thats amaaaaaaaaazing
Then you can just sit back and go..*sigh* yes, i am quite a legend, arent i... hahaStick with it! Its fun!
Nobody wants their ex to be having a better time than them. They should write letters stating their undying love and then they should die. ~Joan Rivers ~ 
The most satisfaction lies in personal development: don't compare yourself to someone who's better than you: seek your own path, whether that's in dancing more, being more technical, coming up with silly tricks that are purely for your own gratification and that of other spinners (try explaining the joys of the ucof principle, etc. to non-spinners)
and yes, even if all you can do is a three beat weave, do it really fast and look like a nutter and people will believe you are good (as long as they can't do more than that with poi)
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and lots of empathy"Always keep your bowler on in times of stress and watch out for diabolical masterminds" - Emma Peel
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Nobody wants their ex to be having a better time than them. They should write letters stating their undying love and then they should die. ~Joan Rivers ~
something very, very silly about non tangling tangles.
(blushes with shame for such a naming)
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do u do it!!??no way, ok i dont want to kno cos i only just mastered backward weave and windmill. I am SOOOO not ready for such brilliance.
*totally in awe of untangling tangler spinners*
Nobody wants their ex to be having a better time than them. They should write letters stating their undying love and then they should die. ~Joan Rivers ~
But the tangles, they're fun. I wouldn't run before you can walk, though...
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Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
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Nobody wants their ex to be having a better time than them. They should write letters stating their undying love and then they should die. ~Joan Rivers ~
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its all "WHHHAAAATT... OOOKKKKK".
not my cup..
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*confused*
That's a common state of mind to be in around UCoF and Bluekitty. Don't worry, just remember to back away from them without making too much eye contact. They rarely bite and if they do start charging toward you, just throw an open packet of hobnob into the air. It will distract them long enough for you to run for it!
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You can teach yourself to do anything,
I dont know about your 1% theory UCOF, are those 1% not just the obsessive complusives. It's all well and good to say, look at that spinner, he's a natural, I'll never be that good. But the spinner in question has spent such a huge amount of time into training. Years and years and years. So of course they are good. I guess it all boils down to how much time your willing to spend at it. And garunteed, if you spend an hour a day practicing, for the next three years, you'll be able to spin with the best of them.
I grok.
Anecdote:
After a concert of I-don't-remember-which-piano-player, a woman goes to him and say
"That was wonderful. I really wish I could play like that. I would give my life for that"
"I did" was the answer.
So. I don't know, maybe THERE IS people that are good from the beginning on; I am never. I am always a lousy beginner, and the only way to begin something, for me, is
a) to have fun in it (spinning was great) and
b) to do it on my own for a while, so that I don't feel too much that I suck.
Ok, maybe having someone supportive is not that bad, too.
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no idea haha and i cant describe it, but sumhow i know it is totally different to learning poi. 
*steps off and invites anyone else to join in*haha sorry totally not ranting. Just that poi took me six months to be able to hold myself pretty well with a fire show and piano took me all my life and im still learnin...
*shuts mouth and sits in corner!*
Nobody wants their ex to be having a better time than them. They should write letters stating their undying love and then they should die. ~Joan Rivers ~
If you have no more tricks to learn after six months, then either you're a superfast learner, or you need some inspiration! Look at people like Meenik, who spin with incredible grace and style but still accept that they are still learning, all the time. I think it's really not that different, surely if you do a piano recital it's a similar thing to doing a poi show? and every time you will play with either you will be looking to expand your ability? After 6 months are you impressing people who know what the possibilities of poi really are, or just people off the street? like the difference between a skilled musician and joe bloggs listening to your recital and coming back with criticism?
basically, you can impress people with a shoddy 3 beat weave, so long as you do it *really* fast. Just like I'd be impressed by anyone who can play any tune more complicated than 'twinkle, twinkle little star'.
However, people tend to listen to music more than they watch poi so they know what to listen for, whereas they won't be looking for clean planes/dance technique/atomics/antispin/whatever.
Hope that makes sense?
*steps off soapbox*
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Nobody wants their ex to be having a better time than them. They should write letters stating their undying love and then they should die. ~Joan Rivers ~
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Are you up for it??
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i watch some of these videos... and i just become so depressed that i probably wont ever reach such levels of talent....
It was watching "those" videos & people doing it it town that made me go "wow, I want to be able to do that"
I also thought (to start with) that I'd never be able to do that.
1 year on, now I'm the one going down to my local reserve by the beach having other people saying that with what I do (& I'm still not that good (yet)
As far as piano & poi go, I think any art form is a continuous learning curve.
Keep at it & have fun
Are you up for it?;)
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